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Kathleen Kane
Lackawanna County prosecutor Kathleen Kane will run for the 2012 Democratic nomination for Attorney General. -
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Timespan of Crisis
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Sandusky is under investigation- later charged
Former Penn State coach Jerry Sandusky is under investigation for allegations he assaulted a minor. Later he is charged for 40 charges of sex crimes against underaged boys on November 5th. -
Kathleen wins election
Kathleen Kane wins the 2012 Democratic nomination for Attorney General by a 53%-47% margin over former Congressman Patrick Murphy. Kane becomes the first elected female Attorney General in the history of Pennsylvania. -
Kathleen challenges Tom Corbett
The Freeh Report, an investigation by former FBI Director Louis Freeh commissioned by Penn State, is released. The report is deeply critical of the university’s administration, including Paterno. These conclusions are still contested by many PSU alumni. Kathleen Kane begins to call for an investigation into whether Tom Corbett slowed down the prosecution of Sandusky over political concerns. Among those prosecutors who worked on the Sandusky case was Frank Fina. -
Kathleen is anaugurated
Kathleen Kane is inaugurated as the 48th Attorney General of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. She is the first woman to ever hold the office. On February 4th Kane hires H. Geoffrey Moulton to investigate the handling of the Jerry Sandusky case. -
Sexually explicit emails revealed
Brad Bumsted and Melissa Daniels of the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review reveal that Moulton’s investigation uncovered numerous sexually explicit emails that were sent and shared in the database of the Attorney General’s office. -
Kane refuses
The protective order is lifted off the emails, leaving Kane in charge of what to do with the pornographic material. Kane initially refuses to release the emails. -
Kane gets in deeper trouble
Kane’s Harrisburg office is searched by investigators that are part of Ferman’s team. They are looking for emails related to the leak of grand jury information to the Daily News last year. Kane will be criminally charged the next day. Now being revealed, Kane could’ve released the pornographic emails without violating the order. This seemingly contradicts her claims. -
Law license has been suspended
The PA Supreme Court temporarily suspends the Attorney General’s law license. For the first time, Kane suggests she won’t run for re-election on September 25th. -
Kane is coming to an end
For the first time, Kane suggests she won’t run for re-election. -
Changes her mind
Kane reverses course and indicates that she now will run for re-election. On January 12th Kane seeks to have her law license reinstated -
Far from the end
The Attorney General announces that she won’t run for re-election. After making many appearances to try and make her name more positive a final decision has been made after calling politics a "disease". This may be far from the end for prior attorney general Kathleen Kane.
