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Kane Says Release Of Porn Emails Sent By Corbett's Top Prosecutor Undermines Case Against Her

HARRISBURG (KDKA) -- Attorney General Katherine Kane got her wish.

The court release of emails sent by top officials in then-Attorney General Tom Corbett's office include pornographic, racist, and questionable images, even one including children, shared by senior prosecutors in Corbett's office.

"She is aghast and absolutely disgusted, as most Pennsylvanians would be," Kane spokesman Chuck Ardo told KDKA political editor Jon Delano on Wednesday.

Receiving and forwarding those emails include Frank Fina, chief deputy attorney general under Corbett.

Fina and Kane have had a public feud since he led the Sandusky investigation that Kane has criticized.

KDKA can't show the many emails of women performing sexual acts, but some of the tamer ones include so-called office motivation posters like one entitled "Boobs" and a racist one called "Bravery."

After the words – "Up Against the Wall" -- a number of pictures of women were displayed.

These include overweight women in something called McDonald's Kalendar 2009.

While the Supreme Court released nearly a thousand pages of documents, 398 pages were deemed so inappropriate that you had to view them in a binder at the state Supreme Court.

The emails were clearly pornographic and raise lots of questions about why they were being sent on government servers to prosecutors in then Attorney General Corbett's office.

Corbett's name did not appear on any of the emails, and Fina, now a prosecutor in Philadelphia, has not commented.

But Kane's spokesman says this undermines the case against Kane based on the claim she leaked grand jury information last year to get back at Fina.

"The release of these emails makes it clear that if she had wanted to embarrass Mr. Fina she could have done so simply by releasing these emails."

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