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IN THE SUPREME COURT OF PENNSYLVANIA

MIDDLE DISTRICT

IN RE: SPECIAL PROSECUTOR,

THIRTY-FIFTH STATEWIDEINVESTIGATING GRAND JURY

:

:::::

No. 2 MM 2015

ORDER

PER CURIAM

AND NOW, this 26th day of August, 2015, upon the request of the supervising

judge for removal of the seal from all matters involving the 35th

Statewide Investigating

Grand Jury and the investigation of Attorney General Kathleen Kane which have been

lodged in this Court, save for grand jury materials such as testimony, exhibits, and in

camera proceedings, and based on the supervising judge’s assurance that there are no

present grand jury secrecy concerns relative to such unsealing, it is hereby ORDERED

that the seal is lifted upon such terms.


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IN

RE:

F i l e d

i n

S u p r e m e

G o u t

JAN

7

2 0 1 4

M i d d l e

IN

THE

SUPREMECOURTOF PENNSYLVANIA

:

SUPREME

COURT

o.

SPECIALPROSECUTOR,

•

HIRTY-FIFTH

STATEWIDE

INVESTIGATING

GRAND

JURY :

GRAND

JURY

DOCKETS:

SUPREME

COURTOF

PA

No. 176MD 012

MONTGOMERY

CO.COURT

No. 2644MD

012

EMERGENCY

APPLICATION

FOREXTRAORDINARY

ELIEF

ANDNOW, h i s 7

h

day ofJanuary,

2015,

omes

a t r i c k R. eese,by o u n s e l ,

William

A.

e t t e r h o f f , Esq., and p r e s e n t s t h e following:

JURISDICTION

1 .

The Supreme Court

of Pennsylvania has j u r i s d i c t i o n

pursuant

t o t h e

J u d i c i a r y

A r t i c l e of

h e C o n s t i t u t i o n

of

h e Commonwealth of

ennsylvania,

r t i c l e

5,

e c t i o n 2 j u r i s d i c t i o n of

h e Supreme C o u r t ) ; A r t i c l e 5, Section

10 s u p e r v i s o r y

a u t h o r i t y

of

h e

Supreme

C o u r t ) ; and

h e f i r s t c l a u s e of Section

1

of h e

Schedule o

t h e

J u d i c i a r y

A r t i c l e (power

and

j u r i s d i c t i o n

of h e

Supreme

C o u r t ) ; and

f u r t h e r

R e c e i v e d

I n

S u p r e m e

C o u r t

JAN

0

7

2 0 1 5

M i d d l e

UNSEALED PER

ORDER OF THECOURT DATED

AUGUST 26, 2015


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p u r s u a n t t o t h e

J u d i c i a l

Code, 42

a.C.S.A. §721(3)

o r i g i n a l


of

h e

Supreme

Court

i n

q uo

warranto); and §726

( e x t r a o r d i n a r y

j u r i s d i c t i o n of

t h e

Supreme

C o u r t ) ; as

implemented

by

Pa.R.A.P.

3307

pleadings

i n

o r i g i n a l

a c t i o n s )

and

3309 King's

Bench

m a t t e r s ) .

APPLICANT

2 . The

Applicant

s

Supervisory

p e c i a l Agent

a t r i c k R.

eese,

n

employee

of h e

Pennsylvania

O f f i c e

of

Attorney General

(OAG). S p e c i a l

Agent Reese i s a

member

of

h e

P r o t e c t i o n

D e t a i l f o r

Attorney

General Kathleen

Kane. Among

t h e r

d u t i e s ,

S p e c i a l

Agent Reese

i s a d r i v e r f o r

Attorney

General

Kane. S p e c i a l

Agent

Reese

has

an f f i c e

i n t h e

OAG cranton

Regional O f f i c e , 417

Lackawanna Avenue,

S c r a n t o n ,PA 18510,

and

r e s i d e s a t

939 Meade t r e e t ,

Dunmore,PA

18512.

3 .

On

anuary 7,

2015

p e c i a l

Agent

Reese, hrough

counsel, ccepted

e r v i c e

of

a

subpoena

i s s u e d

by S p e c i a l

Prosecutor Thomas E .

C a r l u c c i o .

The subpoena

r e q u i r e s

S p e c i a l Agent Reese t o

appear and t e s t i f y

on

January 12,

2015

b e f o r e

t h e

T h i r t y - F i f t h Statewide

I n v e s t i g a t i n g

Grand

Jury s i t t i n g

i n

Montgomery County.

4.

The

Applicant, by

v i r t u e of

having

been

served

with a

subpoena o

appear

and

e s t i f y , has standing

t o

challenge

t h e

l e g a l i t y

of

h e

o f f i c e of

p e c i a l

Prosecutor

a p p o i n t e d t o t h e

T h i r t y - F i f t h Statewide

n v e s t i g a t i n g

G r a nd

u r y . G w i n n .

Kane,

19

Pa.Cmw1th. 243,

339 A.2d 838,

40-843

(1975),

i s p o s i t i o n

a f f i r m e d ,

465 Pa. 269,

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348 A.2

900 Pa.

9 7 5 ) .

FACTUAL

BACKROUND

5 .

On

June 6,

2014

an

a r t i c l e

appeared i n

t h e

Philadelphia

Daily

News

c o n c e r n i n g

a

2009

rand

u r y

i n v e s t i g a t i o n

o f . T .

Whyatt

Mondesire,

former head of

t h e NAACP

n

P h i l a d e l p h i a ,

and a r r i e t

G a r r e t t , one of

Mr.

ondesire'

employees.

E x h i b i t

A.

6.

The

2009

s t a t e w i d e

i n v e s t i g a t i n g grand j u r y

had

been conv ened

and

impaneled i n

Montgomery County.

7 . The h i l a d e l p h i a

Daily

News

r t i c l e c i t e d

two documentary

o u r c e s :

F i r s t ,

a 2009memo

r i t t e n

by then-Deputy

Attorney General W ill iam

Davis, r . , a d d r e s s e d

t o t h e n - C h i e fDeputy

Attorney General Frank Fina

and

h e n - S e n i o r Deputy t t o r n e y

General

E .

Marc

Costanzo;

and

Second,

a

2014

r a n s c r i p t

of

a

taped i n t e r v i e w

by

David P e i f e r , D i r e c t o r of h e OAG

Bureau of p e c i a l I n v e s t i g a t i o n s ,

of Michael

M i l e t t o , t h e OAG

p e c i a l

agent

who ad

a r l i e r i n v e s t i g a t e d

Mr.

Mondesire

and

Ms.

G a r r e t t .

E x h i b i t A.

8 .

Following

u b l i c a t i o n of h e June 6,2014 hiladelphia

Daily News r t i c l e ,

a p e c i a l P r o s e c u t o r(Thomas .

a r l u c c i o , E s q . ,

an

t t o r n e y i n p r i v a t e

p r a c t i c e )

w as

a p p o i n t e d

and a u t h o r i z e d

t o

u t i l i z e t h e T h i r t y - F i f t h Statewide

I n v e s t i g a t i n g Grand

J u r y t o

i n v e s t i g a t e

t h e a l l e g e d

"leak" of

l l e g e d "grand u r y m a t e r i a l by

employees

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of h e

OAG,

r

o t h e r

persons, o t h e

Philadelphia

Daily

News.

9.

The

w r i t t e n

communications,

a p p l i c a t i o n s ,

p e t i t i o n s ,

o r d e r s ,

n o t i c e

of

submission,

and

a l l

o t h e r

documents

underlying t h e

appointment

of

h e S p e c i a l

P r o s e c u t o r and

submission

of h i s

i n v e s t i g a t i o n t o

t h e

grand

jury a r e

under

e a l .

I t

has

been p u b l i c l y

r e p o r t e d t h a t

t h e

appointment

of h e

Special

Prosecutor i n

t h i s

m a t t e r was

a u t h o r i z e d by

h e Supreme

Court and by

Order of

Supervising Judge

of

t h e

Grand Jury

William

R. a r p e n t e r .

E x h i b i t s B, , n d

D.

BASIS

FOR

XTRAORDINARY RELIEF

1 0 . The

n v e s t i g a t i n g

Grand

Jury

Act,42

a.C.S.A.

§§4541

e t

s e q . ,

does not

p r o v i d e

f o r

appointment

of any

s p e c i a l p r o s e c u t o r .

1 1 .

The

Commonwealth

Attorneys

Act,

71

P.S. §§732-101 e t

s e q . ,

does

not

provide

f o r

t h e

appointment

of

any

s p e c i a l

p r o s e c u t o r .

1 2 . The s o l e

p r o v i s i o n s i n Pennsylvania

la w

f o r

appointment

of

a s p e c i a l

p r o s e c u t o r apply only n t h e

event

h a t

an

l e c t e d county

D i s t r i c t

Attorney has

been

charged with

crime

or w i l f u l

and

gross negl ig ence

i n

o f f i c e . County

Code,

16 P.S.

§§1405-1406. See s i m i l a r p r o v i s i o n s

a t 16 P.S.

§7710

concerning

c o u n t i e s

of h e

f i r s t c l a s s ;

and

16 P.S.

§§4405-4406 concerning

c o u n t i e s

of h e

second c l a s s .

1 3 .

Pa.R.A.P. 3331

provides f o r review by h e

Supreme Court

of

An

r d e r

r e l a t i n g t o

t h e

s u p e r s e s s i o n

of

i s t r i c t

a t t o r n e y

by an

Attorney General

or

by

a

o u r t ,

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o r t o

t h e

appointment,

s u p e r v i s i o n ,

a d m i n i s t r a t i o n or

o p e r a t i o n

of a

s p e c i a l


This u l e does

not r e a t e

any

independent

u b s t a n t i v e a u t h o r i t y

f o r t h e

appointment

of

any

s p e c i a l

p r o s e c u t o r ,

and must

t h e r e f o r e

be

construed t o

apply

s o l e l y

t o

c a s e s

a r i s i n g

under h e

a b o v e - c i t e d p r o v i s i o n s of

he

County

Code.

1 4 . The

o n s i d e r a t i o n of

p e c i a l p r o s e c u t o r i n

Dauphin County

Grand

J u r y

I n v e s t i g a t i o n Proceedings

No.

) ,

322 a.358,2

.2d

809 1938),

was

e l d t o have

been

a u t h o r i z e d by a 1929

e g i s l a t i v e enactment

which

was repealed

upon passage

of

h e Commonwealth

Attorneys

Act, supra,

n 1980.

Former s e c t i o n

907 of

h e

A d m i n i s t r a t i v e

Code

of

929, 1 P.S.§297, u t h o r i z e d P r e s i d e n t

Judges

of

h e

Courts

of

Common

leas o r e q u e s t i n

w r i t i n g t h a t

t h e

Attorney

General

n t e r v e n e

i n

c r i m i n a l

m a t t e r s

and supersede

t h e

l o c a l D i s t r i c t Attorney. See

s t a t u t o r y

h i s t o r y :

Commonwealth

v . H a r r i s ,

501

Pa.

178,

460

A.2d 747, 751,

n .

1

(1983).

Thus,

r e l i a n c e

upon

t h e

1938

case by t h e Lackawanna

County

Court i n

In

r e : County

I n v e s t i g a t i n g

Grand

Jury

V I I I ,

2003,

2005 WL 985351 (Pa.Com.P1.

2005)

o r

t h e

g e n e r a l

p r o p o s i t i o n t h a t

Pennsylvania o u r t s

have

r a d i t i o n a l or

n h e r e n t a u t h o r i t y t o

a p p o i n t s p e c i a l p r o s e c u t o r s ,

w as

misplaced. See

e c t i o n

II(C)

fthat

Opinion, . 9 - 1 0 ,

t i t l e d

"Appointment of p e c i a l

P r o s e c u t o r .

1 5 . Another Lackawanna

County

grand ury a t e r gave i s e t o a

proceeding

on

t h e

i s s u e of

whether t h e

Pennsylvania S h i e l d

Law,

42 a.C.S.A.

§5942, r o t e c t s a

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newspaper

e p o r t e r from

compelled

d i s c l o s u r e

of

h e

source

of

grand

u r y l e a k .

I n

C a s t e l l a n i

v .

The

Scranton

Times,

956

A.2d 937

(Pa.

2008),

h e

Supreme

C o u r t ,

w h i l e a d d r e s s i n g t h e S h i e l d

L a w ,

entioned

n

p a s s i n g

t h a t

t h e S u p e r v i s i n g Judge

of

t h e Grand

J u r y had

a p p o i n t e d a

S p e c i a l

P r o s e c u t o r t o


a

l e a k ,

but a s

t h e

v a l i d i t y

of

h e

appointment was

not

a t

i s s u e ,

no a u t h o r i t y

f o r t h e

appointment

w as

c i t e d .

1 6 .

I n In Re

auphin County Fourth


J u r y , 947 A.2d 712

(Pa. 2008), gr and

j u r y

l e a k s had

been

complained of

by

i n d i v i d u a l s s u b j e c t t o

i n v e s t i g a t i o n . The Supreme Court

s s u e d

aper

curiam Or der under

h e

King's Bench

a u t h o r i t y of

2

a.C.S.A. 726, i r e c t i n g t h e S u p e r v i s i n g

Judge of

h e

Grand

u r y t o

c o n s i d e r

whether a s p e c i a l

p r o s e c u t o r

should be

appointed t o pursue t h e

a l l e g a t i o n s . . .

No

u t h o r i t y

i n

s u p p o r t

of

h e

contemplated

appointment

of

p e c i a l

p r o s e c u t o r

was c i t e d .

I d . , 712.

Subsequently, a s p e c i a l p r o s e c u t o r was a p p o i n t e d ,

a l t h o u g h ,

a g a i n , t h e l a t e r f u l l Opinion by t h e

Supreme Court does not c i t e any

a u t h o r i t y r e l i e d upon

f o r

t h e appointment. In

Re Dauphin County Fourth

I n v e s t i g a t i n g Grand J u r y , 19

A.3d

491

(Pa.

2011).

17 I n

d i s a p p r o v i n g t h e appointment of a

s p e c i a l p r o s e c u t o r by t h e

P h i l a d e l p h i a

Court of

Common l e a s , o supersede h e l o c a l D i s t r i c t

Attorney n t h e

conduct of

grand

u r y

i n v e s t i g a t i o n , o u t s i d e t h e terms of

1

P . S . §297, h e

Supreme

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Court

of

ennsylvania

e x p r e s s l y h e l d

t h a t

Pennsylvania

c o u r t s had no

such e x t a -

s t a t u t o r y

a u t h o r i t y ,

and

t h e r e i s n o

u b l i c o f f i c e

i n

Pennsylvania

known

a s

S p e c i a l


Smith

v .

G a l l a g h e r ,

t

a l ,

408

Pa.

551, 185 A.2d

135,149

1962).

The

Supreme

Court

i n

Smith

p o i n t e d l y

disapproved t h e

p r o p o s i t i o n t h a t

Pennsylvania

c o u r t s

have

i n h e r e n t

independent

power

o a p p o i n t

s p e c i a l

p r o s e c u t o r s , a s f o l l o w s :

[T]he

n t e r v e n i n g

a p p e l l a n t s

say

h a t Judge

Alessandroni

i d have

t h e


and

t h e

a u t h o r i t y

t o o r d e r

a

s p e c i a l grand

jury

and

a p p o i n t a

p e c i a l p r o s e c u t o r . The

r a l

and w r i t t e n

arguments u b m i t t e d

i n

b e h a l f

of

h i s t h e s i s ,

however,

a c k c o n v i c t i o n o r

even

p e r s u a s i o n .

They

speak

vaguely

of

n h e r e n t

a u t h o r i t y ,

common

aw u r i s d i c t i o n

and

t r a d i t i o n a l

powers.

I d . , 146;

and

a t

l e n g t h f u r t h e r

a t

151-154.

1 8 .

Although

Smith

v .

G a l l a g h e r

was decided

by

h e

Supreme Court

n

1962,

n o t h i n g

i n

e i t h e r

t h e


J u r y

Act

r t h e Commonwealth

A t t o r n e y s

A c t , b o t h

adopted i n 1980, has c o r r e c t e d

t h e

l a c k of u t h o r i t y t o a p p o i n t

s p e c i a l

p r o s e c u t o r s

v i g o r o u s l y p o i n t e d out by

u s t i c e

Musmanno

n 1962. Mere a p s e

oftime

has

o t

p r o v i d e d

n e w

o n s t i t u t i o n a l o r s t a t u t o r y

a u t h o r i t y . Indeed, i n c e

r e p e a l

of

1

P . S .

§297 by h e Commonwealth

A t t o r n e y s Act n 1980, 71 P . S .

§732-502, n o c a s e

has been

found a t any l e v e l of t h e

Pennsylvania

j u d i c i a r y which has

c i t e d

any

c o n s t i t u t i o n a l o r

s t a t u t o r y

a u t h o r i t y

f o r

t h e appointment

of

a

p e c i a l


1 9 .

There

was

n o

e c e s s i t y f o r t h e

appointment

of

p e c i a l

p r o s e c u t o r i n

t h i s

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m a t t e r , s i n c e ,

according t o

p u b l i c l y

k no w n

f a c t s ,

s e v e r a l

county

D i s t r i c t

A t t o r n e y s

had

u r i s d i c t i o n

t o

both


any leak"

by

h e

OAG n d

r o s e c u t e

any

crime

found

o

have been

committed.

Such

county

i s t r i c t

Attorneys

appear

o i n c l u d e ,

a t

a

minimum,

h o s e

s e r v i n g

Montgomery County

s i t e

of h e

2009 rand

u r y ) ,Dauphin

County s i t e

of

h e p r i n c i p a l o f f i c e

of Attorney

General Kane and

numerous

o t h e r

OAG

f f i c e r s

and

employees),

and


County

s i t e of

h e


Daily

News). R e i n f o r c i n g

t h e

a v a i l a b i l i t y

of

a t l e a s t

those t h r e e

c o u n t i e s ,

t h e

I n v e s t i g a t i n g Grand J u r y

Act

by

t s

own

terms e x p r e s s e s

a

p r e f e r e n c e f o r

county

grand j u r i e s

over m u l t i - c o u n t y

grand

j u r i e s , u n l e s s "the

i n v e s t i g a t i o n cannot

be

a d e q u a t e l y

performed by an n v e s t i g a t i n g grand ury

under e c t i o n 4543 r e l a t i n g t o

convenin g county

i n v e s t i g a t i n g grand u r y ) . 42 a.C.S.A. §4544.

20.

The

argument

h a t

t h e

appointment

of

p e c i a l

p r o s e c u t o r

was

e c e s s a r y

s i n c e t h e

O f f i c e of

Attorney

General would have

had

a c o n f l i c t of i n t e r e s t i n

i n v e s t i g a t i n g

i t s e l f does not

answer e i t h e r :

(1)

h e

complete absence of t a t u t o r y

a u t h o r i t y f o r such

an appointment; r(2)

h e

a v a i l a b i l i t y of e v e r a l a l t e r n a t i v e

county

D i s t r i c t A t t o r n e y s t o whom h e i n v e s t i g a t i o n

could

have

been

r e f e r r e d .

21. The

appointment of

p e c i a l

P r o s e c u t o r

Thomas

E .

C a r l u c c i o ,

and t h e

p r o c e e d i n g s of h e

T h i r t y - F i f t h S t a t e w i d e I n v e s t i g a t i n g Grand J u r y

r e l a t e d

t o any

m a t t e r

s u b m i t t e d o r a c t i o n s taken

by

h e S p e c i a l P r o s e c u t o r , were and

c o n t i n u e t o

be

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STATE ATTORNEY eneral

Kathleen

Ka ne s

r e v i e w i n g

a

2009

g r a n d - j u r y i n v e s t i g a t i o n o f

J .

Whyatt

Mondesire, ormer head

o f

the

NAACP n P h i l a d e l p h i a , and one f h i s

employees,

according

o

documents

obtained by the D a i l y

News.

Mondesire's

employee, a r r i e t G a r r e t t , and

her

daughter pleaded

g u i l t y

in

2010 o

s t e a l i n g

n e a r l y

$220,000 n s t a t e

g r a n t money o r

a

j o b - t r a i n i n g program. a r r e t t was

entenced t o

a minimum

o f

s i x

months n j a i l and

ordered t o pay

e s t i t u t i o n .

Her daughter

got

18

months

p r o b a t i o n

A 2009

memo r i t t e n

by then-Deputy A t t o r n e y General W i l l i a m Davis

J r .

says n v e s t i g a t o r s "uncovered what

appeared

o be

questionable

spending"

of

t a t e money by Mondesire.

Kane, a

Democrat,

s

no w

r y i n g t o

determine what happened w i t h the

Mondesire

n v e s t i g a t i o n . Gov. o r b e t t ,

a

Republican, was he

a t t o r n e y

general a t the t i m e .

Mondesire, 4, says he was ever

questioned and

denies any i n a n c i a l

wrongdoing.

The 2009 Davis

memo

e t a i l e d f o r h i s bosses what had

been

uncovered about Mondesire and

G a r r e t t , who

orked a t

the

P h i l a d e l p h i a S u nd a y

Sun, a weekly newspaper Mondesire

p u b l i s h e s .

A

o n p r o f i t c a l l e d

Next

Generation

Community

Development

o r p . ,

which

s

operated by Mondesire, e l d a state-government r a n t f o r a

j o b s - t r a i n i n g

program in 2004 and

2005, u t

handed t o f f t o

G a r r e t t ,

who an another n o n p r o f i t c a l l e d C r e a t i v e

Urban

Education Systems,

o r

CUES,

ccording t o the Davis memo.

Mondesire

was

i s t e d

as

chairman

o f the CUES oard, he

memo

noted, h i l e

G a r r e t t served as

the

r e a s u r e r f o r Next

Generation's

board.

Davis wrote

h i s

memo

o

then-Chief

Deputy

A t t o r n e y

General Frank

Fina and then-Senior

Deputy

A t t o r n e y

General

E.

Marc Costanzo.

C o r b e t t , as t t o r n e y g e n e r a l , named Fina

n

2006

o

head a n ew

p u b l i c - c o r r u p t i o n u n i t and Costanzo

to

work on

cases o r the u n i t i n the

P h i l a d e l p h i a r e g i o n .

Fina

and Costanzo

no w

work n a

i m i l a r

u n i t

f o r

D i s t r i c t

A t t o r n e y

Seth

\ A r i

hams.

In

the

memo, avis

w r o t e :

Next Generation's bank-account e c o r d s , o b t a i n e d

w i t h a r a n d - j u r y

subpoena,

showed

deposits of

$1.3 i l l i o n i n

government grants

n

a

one-year e r i o d .

Another $521,000 n t h e account

came

rom

o l i t i c a l campaigns, e n t

payments an d

the

n t e r m i n g l i ng o f money from t h e Sunday Sun, hich

i s

owned and operated by Mondesire, he

memo

a i d .

Next

Generation

p a i d

$2,273 o the P h i l a d e l p h i a Club, a

r i v a t e

an d

e x c l u s i v e c l u b

i n Center i t y .

Next Generation spent

tens

f thousands," r i t i n g

checks o pa y

Mondesire's American

Express

i l l f o r c l o t h e s , food, o d g i n g gas

an d

entertainment" and

a

oan from

Mellon

Bank.

There

were l s o checks

w r i t t e n t o Mondesire

and to cash."

*

Next

Generation wrote checks o r $169,960 o Charles and

Claudia

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A.G.

r o b e d P h i l l y

NAACP

e a d e r

M o n d e s i r e ' s

f i n a n c e s

5

e a r . . .

h t t p : / / a r t i c l e s . p h i l l y . c o m / 2 0 1 4 - 0 6 -0 6 / n e w s /5 0 3 9 0 4 6 8_ 1 _ m e m o - w

o f

C i t y

Councilwoman Marian

Tasco,

a r i e n d and

p o l i t i c a l

a l l y o f

Mondesires

o r more

than

three

decades.)

*

$6,431

in CUES

oney was i v e n t o

Mondesire o r what

a r r e t t

c a l l e d

c o n s u l t i n g . That type of

expense

was n o t

a l l o w e d ,

according o the r u l e s o f the g r a n t .

I n

v a r i o u s

correspondence

between

G a r r e t t and Mondesire

discovered by

i n v e s t i g a t o r s , sh e

questioned

payments

f more

than $70,000 he

made o Claudia

Tasco.

*CUES a i d

$1,0 99

o r

h e a l t h insurance

o r

Mondesire.

Davis wanted

t o question Mondesire

and p o s s i b l y subpoena him

o r

sworn

g r a n d - j u r y

testimony - about G a r r e t t ,

CUES

nd

Next

Generation.

Never

questioned

Mondesire,a

former

n q u i r e r

r e p o r t e r who

erved as the top

aide

o

the l a t e

U.S.

Rep. i l l Gray,

a i d

no

one

from

the A . G . ' s

O f f i c e

ever

questioned him.

We i d n ' t

use

any money

o r

personal g a i n ,

Mondesire s a i d .

He

a i d

t h a t he

has n o t seen

the A.G.

Offices documents and twice

d e c l i n e d

an o f f e r from the D a i l y News o review

them.

Mondesire

a i d

C&C

o n s t r u c t i o n worked on

o u r

p r o p e r t i e s ,

i n c l u d i n g the NAACP

eadquarters

and h i s

newspaper

f f i c e , where

the

Next

Generation

n o n - p r o f i t is

a l s o

l o c a t e d .

We ought

u p p l i e s w i t h

my

merican Express card

o r

c o n s t r u c t i o n , h e s a i d .

"They never asked me i n g l e q u e s t i o n back n

2009. We ehabbed the b u i l d i n g s . We pent

money buying

s t u f f

f o r t h e

b u i l d i n g s ,

c o n s t r u c t i o n and

paying

o f f

d e v e l o p e r s .

G a r r e t t

d e c l i n e d

t o

comment bout

the i n v e s t i g a t i o n s . Her

daughter

i d n o t respond to

requests o r comment.

T h e May

010

ne w s e l e a s e

about

G a r r e t t ' s a r r e s t f e a t u r e d Corbett a y i n g

out the charges.

Corbett

d i d

n o t respond

t h i s

week

o

two

q u e s t i o n s : Was

e

b r i e f e d

on

the

Mondesire


and

d i d

h e

p l a y

a

r o l e

in

d e c i d i n g what

happened w i t h t h a t probe?

Mondesire was uspended

by

the

NAACP's a t i o n a l

headquarters

n A p r i l a f t e r h e

euded

p u b l i c l y w i t h

board

members about

th e

finances of the l o c a l chapter and Next Generation.

Those

board

m em b ers S i d

Booker, Donald "Ducky" i r t s and the Rev.

l i s h a

M o r r i s

-

a l s o were

suspended.

Booker

and

M o r r i s , who ay they are t i l l Next Generation board members, re

now asking a Common leas

judge o

f o r c e

Mondesire o

show

t h em the n o n p r o f i t ' s f i n a n c i a l

r e c o r d s .

As

judge considers h a t r e q u e s t , Kanes t a f f

is

r e v i e w i n g what became

f

the

2009 Mondesire probe.

David P e i f e r ,

who eads the A . G . ' s

Bureau

o f S p e c i a l I n v e s t i g a t i o n s , on

March

21 i n t e r v i e w e d

Michael

M i l e t t o ,

the

s p e c i a l

agent

who

n v e s t i g a t e d G a r r e t t and Mondesire.

T h e a i l y News btained a r a n s c r i p t o f t h a t

taped i n t e r v i e w .

M i l e t t o t o l d

P e i f e r t h a t he subpoenaed Next Generation's

bank account,

he r a n s c r i p t shows.

When d i d

t h a t ,

I found h a t t h e r e was a whole bunch of money h a t

appeared

o me o be

donations o the

NAACP, o t

[Mondesire],

and

they

were

going

i n t o

Next

G e n e r a t i o n ' s account

and

they

were

being

used

f o r

[Mondesires]

i f e s t y l e

-

much

o f t ,

M i l e t t o

t o l d

P e i f e r .

M i l e t t o

s a i d

h e

was

aken o f f the

case

f t e r Fina and Costanzo were o l d

about

the probe,

according o the r a n s c r i p t .

M i l e t t o

s a i d

c r i m i n a l

a c t i v i t y was u s t

ignored

a f t e r t h a t . He dded t h a t two

accountants

who ad worked o r

Mondesire

had

p r o v i d e d

taped

statements, i t h

one

asking

o r

immunity

and

the

o t h e r

asking

o r p r o t e c t i o n .

Fina

and

Costanzo

d e c l i n e d

t o

comment

about the Mondesire

i n v e s t i g a t i o n ,

c i t i n g the

secrecy

of r a n d - j u r y proceedings.

Davis, now in p r i v a t e

p r a c t i c e ,

a l s o

d e c l i n e d

t o

comment,

i t i n g the same e s t r i c t i o n .

M i l e t t o , who t i l l works o r t h e

A . G . ' s

o f f i c e ,

a l s o

d e c l i n e d

t o comment.

P e i f e r r e f e r r e d questions o Kane's communications t a f f .

J . J . Abbott, a spokesman o r Kane, e c l i n e d

t o

comment.

T h e

Kane-Fina

feud

Fina and

Costanzo have

a complicated and c o n t r o v e r s i a l r e l a t i o n s h i p wi t h Kane.

Kane

r i t i c i z e d

C o r b e t t ' s

tenure

as

t t o r n e y

general

when

she

ran

f o r

o f f i c e

in

2012,

p e c i f i c a l l y

t a r g e t i n g

the

Penn

State

child-abuse

scandal

h a t sent former s s i s t a n t f o o t b a l l

coach

J e r r y Sandusky o p r i s o n .

Kanes t a f f

is

now

conducting an extensive review o f t h a t

i n v e s t i g a t i o n .

Fina l e d the Sandusky probe.

Kane, on Feb. 5, issued a statement n o t i n g

t h a t h e r o f f i c e s Sandusky review had been underway o r

one y e a r ,

adding

h a t

delays

in the undertaking w i l l

be

described in more

e t a i l

w h e n the r e p o r t is

made

u b l i c .

A

onth

l a t e r , the n q u i r e r

r e p o r t e d

t h a t Kane

e c l i n e d

t o

pursue

an


p r e v i o u s l y l e d by Fina and

Costanzo,

t a r t i n g

in

2010,

h a t used P h i l a d e l p h i a

l o b b y i s t

Tyron

A l i

as

a

o n f i d e n t i a l

informant

o

tape

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i t h f o u r

Phi I l y

s t a t e

r e p r e s e n t a t i v e s

and

a

former

r a f f i c Court udge, On he

tapes, the


and judge

accept

cash o r g i f t s

from

l i .

Kane has

a i d Fina dropped 2,033 r i m i n a l

counts

g a i n s t A l i , who ad been

charged w i t h s t e a l i n g

$430,000 rom

a t a t e

program, 24 ays b e f o r e

sh e

was worn

i n t o o f f i c e .

S h e a i d

t h a t e x t r a o r d i n a r i l y lenienr deal

c r i p p l e d

the

chance of h i s case succeeding in p r o s e c u t i o n .

F i n a ,

in a e t t e r p u b l i s h e d by the n q u i r e r a eek f t e r the

i r s t

s t o r y r a n ,

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d e f e n s e l a w y e r and

e p u b l i c a n .

GALLERY:

Thomas .

Carluccio is

a

defense

l a w y e r . . .

By

ngela

Couloumbis

and

raig R.

McCoy,

nquirer Staff

Writers

P O S T E D :

eptember

4 , 2014

A eteran lawyer

from

Montg ome ry County

is

the s p e c i a l prosecutor

heading the

i n q u i r y

i n t o whether

t a t e

Attomey

General

Kathleen G.

Kane's

o f f i c e leaked

grand u r y

i n f o r m a t i o n

in

an

f f o r t

to d i s c r e d i t he r

c r i t i c s , The n q u i r e r

has leamed.

Thomas .

Carluccio,

a

r i m i n a l defense lawyer n

Plymouth

Meeting

and

former prosecutor

in

Delaware,

was

ppointed over

the

summer y

a

Montg ome ry

County

judge

to

explore how ecret

records became

p u b l i c

t h i s year about a 009

n v e s t i g a t i o n

by

the

Attorney General's

O f f i c e i n v o l v i n g

Philadelphia

p o l i t i c a l a c t i v i s t

J . Whyatt

Mondesire,

according t o

several

people

a m i l i a r w i t h

the m a t t e r .

No harges were brought

against Mondesire in the case.

T h e


d e t a i l s of

which

appeared in a une t o r y in th e


D a i l y

N e w s ,

ook place before

Kane

became t t o r n e y

general.

Carluccio

d i d

not respond

to

m e s s a g e s e f t

by

phone and

e-mail

Tuesday. Renee a r t i n ,

Kane's c t i n g

d i r e c t o r

of communications, a i d

the o f f i c e would

h a ve

no comment.

The n q u i r e r i r s t reported

news f the s p e c i a l

p r o s e c u t o r ' s appointment

on

Sunday.

Sources a i d i n v e s t i g a t o r s in

the

i n q u i r y have

issued

subpoenas

o Kane's

o f f i c e

and o t h e r s .

Carluccio

was ppointed

by Judge

W i l l i a m Carpenter, he

supervising

grand

j u r y

judge

in

the

eastern

p a r t of

the

s t a t e ,

the sources a i d . Both

men

re Republicans.

Kane

s

a emocrat.

T h o u g h

there

have been

past

leak

i n q u i r i e s , t h i s appears o be i r s t

time

the

s t a t e a t t o r n e y

general or top s t a f f e r s in the o f f i c e

h a ve

come

under

c r u t i n y . S u c h an

i n q u i r y

t y p i c a l l y

r e q u i r e s

the

approval of th e

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Kane denies

b i d t o r e l e a s e

c o n t r o v e r s i a l

e - m a i l s

September

5 ,

2014

Kane to decide

whether

o r e l e a s e

s t a t e

workers

racy

- m a i l s

September

1 , 2014

C a s t i l l e

jabs Kane

on

r a v i t y of

n q u i r y

December 5 ,

2014

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p r o s e c u t o r probes

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whether

Kane's o f f i c e

leaked

grand

u r y


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c h i e f

j u s t i c e

of

the

Pennsylvania

S u p r e m e Court,

according to

a

spokesman o r

the

A d m i n i s t r a t i v e O f f i c e of

Pennsylvania Courts.

A erson who

i o l a t e s

grand

j u r y

secrecy

r u l e s

may

e found

g u i l t y

of

contempt of

court

and sentenced to up o

s i x months

in

p r i s o n .

Carluccio,57,

worked as a t a t e deputy

t t o r n e y

general

in Delaware

before

switching

sides to work as a

defense a t t o r n e y

in

Pennsylvania.

His

w i f e , Carolyn

Tornetta

Carluccio,

s a

udge.

A

epublican,

s h e

joined Carpenter

on the Montgomery

County

Common leas

bench

in

2010.

The eak t o

the

D a i l y

News

nvolved

a

2009 n v e s t i g a t i o n

by

former

Chief

Deputy

Attorney General Frank

G.

ina and

onetime Senior

Deputy Attorney

General E. Marc

Costanzo.

i n a ,

who andled th e

o f f i c e s h i g h e s t - p r o f i l e

c r i m i n a l cases, e f t h i s p o s i t i o n

s h o r t l y

a f t e r Kane

took o f f i c e .

I s

Ken

Fisher

nutS?

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might

think h e

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his new

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HERE,

Heated b a t t l e

Fina

and

Kane

a ve

been

locked in a eated b a t t l e

over

the

l a s t

two

years

on how

e r t a i n cases were handled.

Kane, o r instance,

brought

in

a

former

ederal

prosecutor

f t e r

she

was

lected

to review Fines

prosecution of

ormer

Penn State

f o o t b a l l coach J e r r y Sandusky on

c h i l d sex-abuse

charges.

During

her

campaign

o r o f f i c e , Kane a i d the

Sandusky

probe might

have been

delayed f o r

p o l i t i c a l reasons. The ndependent

review

found

no

evidence

of h a t .

And o r

the

l a s t s i x months,

Kane

as

aced c r i t i c i s m

f o r s h u t t i n g

down s t i n g

operation

launched by

Fina h a t sources

an d

i n v e s t i g a t i v e

documents

say

captured f i v e

P h i l a d e l p h i a Democrats,

n c l u d i n g

four

s t a t e l e g i s l a t o r s , on

tape

accepting

money

r

g i f t s .

As

r i t i c i s m

over the

s t i n g

case mounted,

he

P h i l a d e l p h i a D a i l y

News

eported

in

e a r l y

June

h a t Kane

was

onducting

a eview

of

F i n a ' s handling of a 009

n v e s t i g a t i o n i n t o Mondesires

finances.

The

ewspape rs

t o r y

discussed, among

ther

h i n g s , a

ecret

i n v e s t i g a t i v e memo

ummarizing

the

s t a t u s of the Mondesire

probe.

Mondesire, he former

president

of

the


NAACP, as

denied

any

wrongdoing.

E x p l i c i t e-mails

The eak


has been

complicated by

a

separate

but intense

l e g a l f i g h t over the exchange

of sexually

x p l i c i t e-mails

among ormer

and

current t a t e o f f i c i a l s .

The -mails

h a ve become

n

issue

because

some

Kane r i t i c s

argue h a t

Kanes

f f i c e

is using the

h r e a t

of h e i r

release

as a

way o s i l e n c e

c r i t i c i s m

of

h e r , sources

have

o l d

T h e

n q u i r e r .

The

e s s a g e s

were

discovered

during

Kane's review of the

Sandusky


which

involved going

through thousands of

documents.

The n q u i r e r has reported t h a t the

e-mails were

shared

on

s t a t e computers and

sometimes hrough

government e-mail

accounts.

They are

s a i d

to

have contained

pornographic images,

okes, cartoons,

and

other

p r i v a t e messag e s.

T h o u g h

not

l l of

the r e c i p i e n t s

are known, some f

the

m a t e r i a l

c i r c u l a t e d

among

cores of f f i c i a l s , from

homicide

i n v e s t i g a t o r s

in

the

Attorney General's

O f f i c e

t o

s t a t e prosecutors

and

other s t a t e o f f i c i a l s , i n c l u d i n g

top

Pennsylvania u r i s t s , The

n q u i r e r h as

reported.

While

Judge

Carpenter

n

Montgomery County is overseeing

the

leak

probe, a i f f e r e n t judge, Norman

.

Kru m en ac h er

3d, f

Cambria

County, has u r i s d i c t i o n over the e-mail

i s s u e .

Several

news rganizations,

n c l u d i n g The

n q u i r e r , have put

in

r i g h t - t o - k n o w

requests o r the

e - m a i l s . But

Krumenacher

h as

ordered a tay

on

the release of the

e - m a i l s .

He

versees the grand j u r y in Western

Pennsylvania

as e l l as the

l e g a l issues

i n v o l v i n g Kanes

eview of

the Sandusky

prosecution. The

-mails

in

questions were

unearthed

by computer

experts as p a r t of h a t review.

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j u r y may

miss

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of

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Pennsylvania AG

Kane

rand jury

may

miss New

Year's

Eve

eadline

AP

A t t o r n e y

General

Kathleen Kane

speaks

u r i n g

a

new s

conference

F r i d a y , June 27, 2014, t the

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i n

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29,

2014,

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HARRISBURG— here's n o t h i n g magical about the

New ears

E v e

deadline o r

a

grand u r y t o

f i n i s h i t s

work

examining

whether t t o r n e y General Kathleen

Kane

v i o l a t e d

grand

j u r y

secrecy

by

l e a k i n g

documents

t o

a

P h i l a d e l p h i a newspaper,

and

t h e

outcome o u l d

take

weeks

r

months o

be

r e v e a l e d ,

l e g a l

experts

s a i d .

Several people

close

o p a r t i e s i n v o l v e d

i n the i n v e s t i g a t i o n suggest the grand u r y could

c o n t i n u e t o

meet h r o u g h mid-January.

We o n ' t discuss the grand u r y

a c t i v i t i e s .

I t i s

not p u b l i c , Kane's

spokeswoman, Renee

M a r t i n , s a i d .

Kane's lawyers have s a i d she

d i d n o t h i n g wrong and committed no crime.

Even

f

r e s o l u t i o n

of

the

m a t t e r

i s imminent,

experts

a i d ,

the r e s u l t

may ot

be .

T h e r e ' s

no way o

a n t i c i p a t e

the i m e l i n e ,

s a i d l o n g t i m e

c r i m i n a l defense t t o r n e y

W i l l i a m

C.

Costopoulous

f

Lemoyne

n

Cumberland County.

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u r y may

iss

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e a r ' s E ve

d e a d l i n e

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2

Judges

sometimes

seal

grand

j u r y

presentments.

And

the grand

j u r y ' s

recommendations

could

be

r e f e r r e d

t o

a

d i s t r i c t

a t t o r n e y , who

may

ecide

t h a t f u r t h e r


i s

necessary.

T h e

r e s u l t s

could

range

from c l e a r i n g

Kane, or

making

no

r e p o r t ;

d i r e c t i n g

Kane o

e x p l a i n

a t a

h e a r i n g

why she

should n o t

be h e l d

i n

contempt

of o u r t ;

or

recommending c r i m i n a l

charges

such as p e r j u r y

or

o b s t r u c t i o n

o f

j u s t i c e .

I f

t h e

grand j u r y

f i n d s no

wrongdoing

o r need

f o r

a

r i t i c a l

r e p o r t ,

t could

issue a

r e p o r t

s p e c i f i c a l l y

c l e a r i n g t h e

p a r t i e s

i n v o l v e d ,

Costopoulous

a i d .

"The

range o f

p o s s i b i l i t i e s is

f a i r l y broad,"

a i d Bruce

Antkowiak,

a

former

e d e r a l

prosecutor and

law

p r o f e s s o r a t S t .

Vincent

College in

U n i t y .

Kane e s t i f i e d

l a s t month

before

the grand

j u r y in

Montgomery

County

and

acknowledged

t h a t

s he knew

h e r o f f i c e

provided the

P h i l a d e l p h i a D a i l y News

n f o r m a t i o n

from

a

2009 case

about

a

man

ever charged

w i t h

a crime,

p o s s i b l y t o

embarrass

a

former

prosecutor

w i t h

whom

Kane

i s

feuding.

Kane o f Clarks

Summit near

Scranton

is the

i r s t

woman nd i r s t

Democrat

l e c t e d

as

t t o r n e y

g e n e r a l .

She

a i d s he

b e l i e v e d the

m a t e r i a l leaked was ot

covered by grand

j u r y

secrecy.

T h e

i n v e s t i g a t i o n o f

a

statewide law

enforcement f f i c i a l by

a

c o u r t - a p p o i n t e d s p e c i a l

prosecutor i s

unusual, f n o t

unprecedented,

experts

s a i d .

Pennsylvania

Su p r em e

Court Chief

u s t i c e

Ronald D.

C a s t i l l e , who

must e t i r e

Wednesday

because

h e is

70, appointed as

prosecutor

Thomas

a r l u c c i o , a

N o r r i s t o w n

a t t o r n e y selected by

Montgomery

County

Judge

W i l l i a m

Carpenter.

C a s t i l l e

s a i d

t h e r e ' s

precedent

o r

c o u r t - a p p o i n t e d

s p e c i a l

prosecutors

o

handle grand

j u r y

l e a k s .

But

since the s t a t e ' s

f i r s t

e l e c t e d

a t t o r n e y general took

o f f i c e i n

1980,

none

has

undergone

such an

i n q u i r y ,

s a i d

G.

e r r y Madonna,

a

p o l i t i c a l science p r o f e s s o r a t

F r a n k l i n & arshall

College i n

Lancaster.

Former

A t t o r n e y

General E r n i e Preate, a

Scranton

Republican,

resigned

in

1 99 5

upon

pleading g u i l t y

t o

a

f e d e r a l m a i l f r a u d

charge.

With

grand

j u r y

secrecy, some

assumptions must

be made" o

analyze

the


s a i d former

Montgomery

County

D i s t r i c t Attorney

Bruce

Castor, a

Republican

county

commissioner.

"The i r s t

assumption make s t h a t the

s p e c i a l

prosecutor has no

enforcement u t h o r i t y

over the

laws o f

t h e

commonwealth,"

Castor

s a i d .

"Anything

the

s p e c i a l

prosecutor uncovers

could

be

i n a d m i s s i b l e i f i t

was

athered

by

a erson

w i t h o u t

t h e a u t h o r i t y

t o

do s o .

That

may

e s u l t i n a

r e f e r r a l of any

i n d i n g s t o

a

d i s t r i c t a t t o r n e y , who may

ant

o

r e i n v e s t i g a t e by

t a l k i n g w i t h

witnesses

and

reviewing

documents,

Castor

s a i d .

Castor and experts

b e l i e v e

the

court

has

u t h o r i t y t o

decide contempt

f c o u r t ,

which they consider an

o f f e n s e against the

c o u r t . T h e p e n a l t y

f o r

contempt

i n a grand

j u r y leak i s up t o

s i x months n p r i s o n .

There's

i n h e r e n t

a u t h o r i t y

f o r the

court o


a

l e a k w h en t h e r e is

a

c o n f l i c t

of i n t e r e s t ,

Antkowiak s a i d . Kane "could c e r t a i n l y

not

i n v e s t i g a t e h e r s e l f .

I f t h e r e ' s no

s o l u t i o n ,

a

p o t e n t i a l l y

serious

c r i m i n a l

act

goes

unaddressed,''

Antkowiak

s a i d .

Kane

has

s a i d s he intends t o seek

r e - e l e c t i o n in

2016.

But

a

c r i t i c a l grand

j u r y

r e p o r t could be "very

n a s t y

and a f f e c t her c a r e e r , Castor

s a i d .

Nothing prevents the

t r a n s f e r of

the grand

j u r y ' s

work

o

another

grand

j u r y , f needed,

though t h a t could cause

l e g a l

obstacles and delays,

h e

s a i d .

Brad Bumsted i s T r i b

T o t a l

Media's s t a t e

C a p i t o l r e p o r t e r .

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him a t 717-787-1405

or

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at

a March news onference n Harrisburg. She

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Pennsylvania

A t t o r n e y

General Kathleen

G .

Kane

has stumbled from one p r o f e s s i o n a l l y damaging

m a t t e r

t o

another.

Now

h e

faces another o b s t a c l e - and

p o t e n t i a l l y t h e b i g ge s t

y e t .

E a r l y

t h i s

y e a r ,

a statewide grand

j u r y meeting i n

N o r r i s t o w n

i s

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decide wheth er the onetime r i s i n g p o l i t i c a l

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by

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s e c r e t

i n f o r m a t i o n t o

embarrass her

enemies.

For

Kane, he stakes

are h i g h :

T h e grand

j u r y

c o u l d g o

s o a r

as o recommend c r i m i n a l

charges,

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broke

the

law

w h i l e

s e r v i n g

as

h e

states o p

e n f o r c e r o f

l a w .

Even

supporters

acknowledge h a t

the next few weeks

o u l d

mark

a

make-or-break moment

n

her

c a r e e r .

T h e r i s k s

range

from

a

w r i t t e n

rebuke, o being found

n

contempt of

o u r t ,

t o

a

c r i m i n a l

charge

o f o b s t r u c t i n g

j u s t i c e .

"The

next

few

weeks

i l l be a

t u r n i n g p o i n t f o r h e r , s a i d

John

M o r g a n e l l i , the

Democratic i s t r i c t a t t o r n e y i n

Northampton

County in

the Lehigh V a l l e y .

I f

i t

ends

n a

contempt

i t a t i o n

by

a

judge,

t

may o t be

d e v a s t a t i n g .

But f

t h e r e are crimes-

code v i o l a t i o n s ,

t h a t

c o u l d be p r o b l e m a t i c .

Kane, a

Democrat, has

acknowledged

t h a t

her

o f f i c e

r e l e a s e d

i n f o r m a t i o n about

a

grand

j u r y

case

r u n

by

her Republican

predecessors. But

she

has contended t h a t the


was o t c o n f i d e n t i a l grand j u r y

m a t e r i a l .

She as l s o

s t r o n g l y

suggested

t h a t

the l e a k i n v e s t i g a t i o n

i s

aimed a t

d e s t r o y i n g

her

o l i t i c a l l y .

I

am

i g h t i n g f o r an end t o abuse of the c r i m i n a l j u s t i c e

system," Kane

a i d i n November, as she was

eading in

t o

the grand j u r y t o

t e s t i f y . I f t h i s can

be

done o me

s

t t o r n e y

g e n e r a l , the c h i e f

law enforcement

f f i c e r o f

t h e

f i f t h - l a r g e s t

s t a t e

in the c o u n t r y , am ickened t o

t h i n k

what can and may

be done

o

r e g u l a r , good p e o p l e .

T h e

e a k

i n q u i r y

was u t h o r i z e d i n

the

summer

y former

s t a t e

Sup re me

Court Chief

u s t i c e Ronald D. a s t i l l e ,

a

Republican.

T h e grand

j u r y meets

n

s e c r e t ,

and,

n an

unusual move, witnesses

b e f o r e

the panel have been

ordered

n o t t o discuss

h e i r

testimony

p u b l i c l y ,

according t o two

people a m i l i a r

w i t h

the m a t t e r .

T h e

I n q u i r e r

has learned

t h a t

a

number

of

ormer

h i g h - r a n k i n g

o f f i c i a l s i n Kane's

d m i n i s t r a t i o n

have

e s t i f i e d ,

i n c l u d i n g

her

former i r s t

deputy, h i l a d e l p h i a lawyer Adrian

King,

and her

onetime c h i e f

o p e r a t i n g

o f f i c e r , David

T y l e r . Howard

Bruce

K l e i n , the

a t t o r n e y f o r Linda Dale H o f f a ,

another former

to p

Kane i d e ,

d e c l i n e d

comment.

I n the main, people a m i l i a r

w i t h

t h e

m a t t e r

say, he grand

j u r y

is

examining h o w i n t e r n a l documents rom a 2 009 grand j u r y


l e d

by

the

A t t o r n e y

General's

O f f i c e ended

up

being

c i t e d i n a P h i l a d e l p h i a D a i l y News

t o r y

t h i s

p a s t June.

Expand ed

inquiry

T h e

n v e s t i g a t i o n i n v o l ve d a l l e g e d

f i n a n c i a l

i m p r o p r i e t i e s

by

J .

Whyatt

Mondesire, he former p r e s i d e n t o f

the


NAACP.

t

was

verseen by h e n - s t a t e prosecutor

Frank

G.

F i n a , w i t h whom ane has been locked f o r

months in a

b i t t e r

and t a n g l e d d i s p u t e over h ow

c e r t a i n

cases

were handled.

T h e grand

j u r y has expanded

t s

i n q u i r y t o examine Kane s

d e c i s i o n in the

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t r a d e d

pornographic

- m a i l s

on s t a t e

t i m e , T h e

I n q u i r e r has

l e a r n e d .

A l l e i g h t

had

t i e s

t o

F i n a .

Kane's

p o l i t i c a l

s t a r

began

o dim

l a s t

year

a f t e r T h e

n q u i r e r

r e p o r t e d

t h a t

sh e had shut

d own a s t i n g


launched.by

F i n a ,

even

though the

undercover

o p e r a t i o n

had

caught

p u b l i c

o f f i c i a l s

on tape

accepting cash.

To ome,

he

s t o r y

i n

the D a i l y

News

eemed

designed

t o

s t r i k e

a

counterblow

a t F i n a .

I n

a

m i r r o r image

o f the

c r i t i c i s m

Kane has

u s t a i n e d over th e

s t i n g ,

t h e

newspaper

r t i c l e

suggested

t h a t F i n a

had f a i l e d

t o

a g g r e s s i v e l y

pursue the

Mondesire

m a t t e r .

Fina was

among cores o f c u r r e n t o r

former t a f f e r s in the

A t t o r n e y

General's

O f f i c e who

xchanged s e x u a l l y e x p l i c i t

e - m a i l s , and Kane has been

i n t e n t on naming him

i n

connection w i t h t h a t , as she d i d

w i t h t h e e i g h t o f f i c i a l s , T h e

I n q u i r e r

has r e p o r t e d .

But

sources say the judge s u p e r v i s in g t h e

l e a k

i n q u i r y issued

an

order several

months

ago

f f e c t i v e l y b a r r i n g

Kane

from

c i t i n g

F i n a ' s

name u b l i c l y . T h e

judge

d i d

s o

f t e r Fina an d

o t h e r s argued

t h a t

Kane was

s i n g

the

h r e a t

of e l e a s i n g th e

e - m a i l s

t o i n t i m i d a t e

them.

A ear

of

controversy

A f t e r a

l a n d s l i d e

v i c t o r y

i n 2 0 12 h a t made

er h e

f i r s t woman

and i r s t Democrat l e c t e d

a t t o r n e y general

n

the

s t a t e ,

Kane

s w i f t l y

b u i l t a n a t i o n a l r e p u t a t i o n

in

her i r s t

year

n

o f f i c e

f o r

her stands in f a v o r of

gay

r i g h t s and gun

c o n t r o l .

Her

second

y e a r , though,

was

arked

by c o n t r o v e r s y over

the s t i n g ,

her r e t r a c t i o n s o f

p u b l i c

statements, and repeated

shake-ups

o f her

t a f f .

Amid

t h a t ,

she c o u l d

n o t

p o i n t

t o

an y

h i g h - p r o f i l e

c o n v i c t i o n s t o change h e

s u b j e c t :

T h e

Pennsylvania Turnpike

p a y - t o - p l a y

c o r r u p t i o n

case sh e

announced

w i t h f a n f a r e e a r l y i n

o f f ic e f i z z l e d l a t e l a s t year

w i t h o u t

any

defendant

r e c e i v i n g a a i l

sentence.

While

a d m i t t i n g the d i s c l o s u r e

o f i n f o r m a t i o n

t o the

D a i l y

New s,

Kane

who e c l i n e d comment

o r t h i s

a r t i c l e

- has a i d

the

m a t e r i a l was

assed

on i n

a

way h a t d i d n o t v i o l a t e

s t a t u t o r y

o r case law

r e g a r d i n g

grand

j u r y

secrecy."

Her

c o n t e n t i o n :

t h a t

Pennsylvania

law

has no s t a t u t e

t h a t

binds

an

a t t o r n e y

general

o

grand

j u r y

secrecy.

indeed,

he

s t a t e

law

e s t a b l i s h i n g

i n v e s t i g a t i v e

grand j u r i e s makes no

mention of

the a t t o r n e y

g e n e r a l . Rather, t imposes

secrecy

r u l e s

on the

p a r t i c i p a n t s

i n

t h e j u r y room, and

t

name s

t hem -

j u r o r , a t t o r n e y ,

i n t e r p r e t e r ,

stenographer," adding: A l l

such

persons

s h a l l be sworn t o secrecy, and s h a l l be i n

contempt

o f c o u r t

i f they r e v e a l any

i n f o r m a t i o n which

they are

sworn

t o

keep s e c r e t .

One f Kane's lawyers,

Lanny J . Davis, has noted

t h a t w hen

the

Mondesire grand

j u r y was n session

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p a r t i c i p a n t s

swore secrecy

oaths

Kane was stay-at-home

mom

I t

is our

e g a l

o p i n i o n

t h a t t h e r e

has

never

been

a

case

decided

where a

succeeding a t t o r n e y general has been

accused of i o l a t i n g

an

oath

t h a t she

never

o o k ,

Davis

a i d

i n an

i n t e r v i e w

l a t e

l a s t

y e a r .

Beyond

t h a t , Kane contends

h a t

she

a u t h o r i z e d o n l y

a

v e r y

l i m i t e d

d i s c l o s u r e o f

i n f o r m a t i o n t o

t h e

D a i l y

News:

a

doc u men t

e l a t e d t o

a

review she launched

l a s t

March

examining

ho w Fina

d e a l t w i t h

t h e

Mondesire a l l e g a t i o n s i n

2009. Mondesire,who as

denied any wrongdoing,

was

o t

charged n the

i n q u i r y , which ended years ago.

Overzealous

t a f f ?

Yet

he

a r t i c l e

a l s o

quoted

h e a v i l y

from a

2009

n t e r n a l

memo

d e t a i l i n g

a l l e g a t i o n s

a g a i n s t

Mondesire.

Kane maintains

sh e

has

no

i d e a

h o w h a t

p a r t i c u l a r

d o c u men t got o

th e

newspaper.

n

e f f e c t ,

she

s

suggesting t h a t

perhaps

overzealous members

f

her t a f f may ave

r r e d

in p u t t i n g

t o g e t h e r

the i n f o r m a t i o n given t o the newspaper.

F i n a l l y ,

Kane's

l l i e s

are q u e s t i o n i n g

t h e v e r y

l e g a l i t y of the


saying no x p l i c i t

s t a t u t e

p e r m i t s such

a l e a k

i n v e s t i g a t i o n .

C a s t i l l e has

e j e c t e d

t h i s

argument,

i t i n g

among t h e r

t h i n g s

a

t a t e

law t h a t gives the h i g h c o u r t the

broad

power o

cause r i g h t

and

u s t i c e t o be done.

Nor are such l e a k i n q u i r i e s unprecedented. The h i g h c o u r t

has

u t h o r i z e d them a t l e a s t t w i c e b e f o r e . I n a

2007 case,

he

i n v e s t i g a t io n l e d t o the a i l i n g o f

an

i n v e s t i g a t o r from th e

A t t o r n e y General's O f f i c e .

G .

Terry Madonna, he

p o l i t i c a l a n a l y s t ,

says any i n d i n g

t h a t

Kane

broke

the

law

would be e v a s t a t i n g t o her

image. Her

post s

c l o s e l y

t i e d t o issues

o f

c h a r a c t e r and i n t e g r i t y ,

Madonna s a i d .

You

are innocent n t i l proven g u i l t y , h e

a i d .

But she s th e

s t a t e ' s top

law enforcement

f f i c e r . Any way

you

frame t sh e

i s

going

t o

be n

an e x t r a o r d i n a r i l y tenuous p o s i t i o n .

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