Details sought on judges in office email porn case
HARRISBURG (AP) – Pennsylvania’s Supreme Court chief justice is asking the state attorney general’s office for the names of any judges involved in email exchanges containing pornography.
However, a spokeswoman for Attorney General Kathleen Kane said Saturday the emails weren’t collected in a way that allows the office to readily identify those who might have been involved by job description.
Kane’s office said hundreds of inter-office pornographic emails sent or received between 2008 and 2012 were discovered during its review of the Jerry Sandusky child sex abuse prosecution. Her office said the exchanges involved current and former employees of the attorney general’s office, including two current members of Gov. Tom Corbett’s cabinet.
The Philadelphia Inquirer first reported Chief Justice Ronald Castille’s request Friday. Castille’s spokesman, Jim Koval, said he doesn’t know why Castille believes judges were involved.