POLITICAL CORRUPTION IN PENNSYLVANIA: Attorney General Kathleen Kane caught lying (again). “Kathleen Kane won the election to become Attorney General in Pennsylvania, basing much of her campaign on a promise to investigate whether political connections dragged out the Commonwealth’s investigation and charging of former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky on child sexual abuse charges. Mrs Kane cast herself as a fearless crusader against political corruption, but it’s looking like that was a false front.”

The Philadelphia Inquirer says she’s not telling the truth:

Federal prosecutors reviewed the case in early 2013 after a top state prosecutor took it to them through a back channel.

When The Inquirer disclosed last month that Kane had ended an investigation that sources said had caught at least five Philadelphia elected officials on tape pocketing cash or gifts, Kane said that the officials had committed crimes, but that federal law enforcement officials agreed with her that the case was “flawed and nonprosecutable.”

But Williams and the other sources say the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Philadelphia never made such a judgment about the sting during the several months that prosecutors reviewed the case file. . . . During 19 months of taping, undercover operative Tyron Ali captured five leading Philadelphia Democrats – a Traffic Court judge and four state legislators – on tape taking money or gifts, according to interviews and investigative documents.

After taking office and conducting her own review of the evidence, Kane, a Democrat, shut down the probe without bringing charges – or notifying the state Ethics Commission that lawmakers had taken money.

Looks to me like she was flying cover for corrupt Dems, and got caught at it.