The presentment unsealed Monday recommending perjury and abuse of process charges against state Attorney General Kathleen Kane over alleged grand jury leaks detailed a series of contentious interactions between Kane and top staffers that have left some questioning the office’s morale.
There exists perhaps no more important a relationship in an attorney general’s office, several observers have noted, than that between the attorney general and her first deputy. The presentment handed up after a grand jury investigation into whether Kane leaked grand jury information to the press detailed a clear disagreement between Kane and her first deputy, longtime OAG prosecutor Bruce Beemer. And one source familiar with the office said friction now exists between the two.
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