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Kane: 1 Year Into Sandusky Review, More Review Needed

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Attorney General Kathleen Kane released an update today on her office’s review into the handling of the Jerry Sandusky investigation.

The verdict: More review is needed.

“Approximately one year ago I appointed H. Geoffrey Moulton Jr. to lead the Office of Attorney General’s (OAG) internal review of the Sandusky child sexual abuse investigation. At that time, I stated that Mr. Moulton would ‘…assist [OAG] in providing a comprehensive and independent examination of the facts surrounding the handling of the Sandusky investigation’ and that, ‘once the facts have been uncovered [OAG] will make these findings available to the public.’

“However, certain factors have combined to slow the process, not all of which were anticipated. Chief among them have been significant and time-consuming challenges in obtaining important written records, particularly emails. For reasons that will be described in more detail when the report is made public, until last fall we believed that OAG emails for the relevant time period had been permanently removed from OAG storage systems (pursuant to a then-existing document-retention policy) and were unrecoverable. Since then, we have developed a recovery process that is ongoing.”

Early in her tenure, Kane announced that she would hire a special investigator to review Governor Corbett’s handling of the Sandusky investigation while he was the Attorney General.

A majority of Pa. voters think Gov. Tom Corbett mishandled the investigation of Jerry Sandusky, a June 2013 survey from Quinnipiac found.

58% of respondents said then-Attorney General Corbett did not do enough to investigate the Penn State football coach who was convicted last year on 45 of 48 counts of sexually abusing minors. 23% said he did do enough.

PoliticsPA is seeking comment from Governor Corbett.

“I’m sure the report will be out just in time for election day,” quipped one Republican operative.

In her statement today, she noted that she had no intention of making further comment on the matter until her office was ready to release new findings.

 

9 Responses

  1. Larry,
    Considering the problems with the investigation (ie why Sandusky wasn’t stopped sooner, and was political influence involved), any automatic deletion should have been overridden, and the documents preserved. This could also have masked attempts to destroy documents.

    The loss of the emails has hampered the investigation. If they are recoverable, Kane can get to the bottom of this.

    Where would the NJ Bridge scandal be without the emails showing the traffic problems were intentional?

  2. Well I know which one I would vote for. The one who got the most votes in Pennsylvania’s in her last election.

  3. So what she is saying is that there was absolutely no wrongdoing by anyone at OAG, but she doesn’t want to say so until December.

  4. “Kane is nothing but a politician and not much of a lawyer”

    You could spout that same rhetoric about Corbett. The Sandusky mess reveals a cynical, calculating man who ran the OAG in a way to best position himself to run for Gov.

    As an ambitious politician, Kane may be cut from the same cloth but I think she’s far more astute than Corbett.

  5. David Diano, always the blind liberal sheep, ignores the widely reported deletion occurred because of the office’s document retention policy. Emails kept past a certain date were automatically deleted by the IT software. Diano would be wise to see how silly this waste of time and money is, since it can lead to no criminal charges and because the Sandusky prosecution was wildly successful. Kane is nothing but a politician and certainly not much of a lawyer.

  6. Sounds to me like Corbett’s team tried deleting emails and has been resisting subpoenas and throwing up roadblocks. Then, recently, Kane’s team began recovering files/emails that were supposedly permanently removed/deleted from the servers. Maybe they found some backup copies. Maybe some cached copies. Maybe some forensics to recover deleted files.

    So, delays and roadblocks are being overcome, and the process took longer than originally anticipated.

    Keep up the good work, Kathleen !

  7. Like everything else she does, it’s more about furthering her own political ambitions than anything else.

  8. According to Complaints and Motions filed in our judicial system regarding the outcome of the Republican “Computergate” trial, Frank Fina and his team of prosecutors in the former OAG destroyed dozens of witness and proffer notes in violation of OAG Policy and a court Order. The trial judge and the Superior Court have ruled this action was acceptable conduct by the chief law enforcement officer of the Commonwealth.
    General Kane’s appointed investigator is now confronting the same individuals who ignored US Supreme Court Opinions. This is about power, not the law.

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