Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen Kane has fired back at the state Supreme Court and the Judicial Conduct Board over statements they made indicating her office had not turned over all the offensive email chains involving Justice J. Michael Eakin.
In a strongly worded statement released Wednesday, Kane said the court and the JCB previously had access to emails involving Eakin that have only recently become the focus of scrutiny, and she flatly disputed her office withheld those emails. While the court and the JCB had investigated Eakin last year over the emails, the bodies had found Eakin was largely uninvolved in the offensive email exchanges.
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