Kathleen Kane

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Kane Will Turn Over Sting Files, After All

After double-dog daring Seth Williams to prosecute the now-legendarily abandoned sting case involving Philly Democrats — and then appearing to take back the offer over […]

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Abandoned Sting Case One Giant Grudge Match Between Kathleen Kane and Frank Fina?

Things have gone from bad to ugly in the bizarre microcosm that is the abandoned sting. Kathleen Kane’s epic “double-dog-dare” to Seth Williams (in which […]

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In Abandoned Sting Operation, Liquor Privatization Was Bait

Here’s a question about the abandoned sting that has Kathleen Kane in so much trouble these days: How close did it come to criminalizing normal […]

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Report: Abandoned Sting Started With Diverse Targets

Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen Kane has said she abandoned the sting operation that caught Philly Democrats taking cash on tape, in part, because the investigation […]

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Tom Corbett Wants No Blame for Kathleen Kane’s Abandoned Sting

Tom Corbett has enough problems of his own. He doesn’t need to get on board Kathleen Kane’s sinking ship. Gov. Corbett was, of course, one […]

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Winners and Losers in the Abandoned Sting Case

With Thursday’s document dump and accompanying double dog dare, the Case of Attorney General Kathleen Kane’s Abandoned Sting has now played long enough for us […]

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The Abandoned Sting Case Might Be Bigger Than You Thought

A judge on Thursday agreed to a request from several Pennsylvania media organizations to unseal investigative records from the abandoned sting that had caught five […]

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Kathleen Kane Just Turned The Abandoned Sting Case Into a Double-Dog Dare

The abandoned sting case — and it’s going to be with us awhile, now, clearly, so let’s come up with a clever name for it […]

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Activist Brings “Private” Charges Against Lawmakers in Sting

Gene Stilp carries on where Kathleen Kane wouldn’t. PennLive reports: Self-styled political activist Gene Stilp filed a private criminal complaint Tuesday against three sitting state […]

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Pittsburgh Paper Asks Court to Unseal Sting Records

The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review has asked a Dauphin County judge to unseal records in the abandoned sting operation that caught Philly Democrats on tape taking cash […]

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Prosecutor In Sting Case Testifies Before Ethics Panel

The Inquirer reports that Frank Fina, who led the now-controversial sting operation against Philly Democrats — later abandoned by Attorney General Kathleen Kane — testified […]

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10 Burning Questions About Kathleen Kane’s Abandoned Sting

We’re not sure we’ve often seen a story reported in such close detail as the Inquirer’s series of stories about the sting operation that targeted […]

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Amidst Scandal, Kane’s Spokesman Departs

The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review reports that Kathleen Kane’s spokesman, Joe Peters, is out after eight months on the job — right when his boss is embroiled […]

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Abandoned Sting Could Produce Reform in Harrisburg

After more than a week, Attorney General Kathleen Kane’s abandoned sting operation against Philly Democrats is still the talk of Harrisburg. (And beyond: Republican-friendly blogs […]

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Kane Still Battling Sting Critics

Lots of developments over the weekend in the political fallout from revelations that Attorney General Kathleen Kane abandoned a sting operation that caught Philly Democrats […]