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Frank Fina, the brains behind the 3 year long Sandusky investigation and braceletgate, now works for the Phila. District Attorney's office. Fina was Corbett's chief deputy as AG. Fina is now Kane's chief public critic, and may have been the "anonymous" source for the Phila. Inquirer article.
One person asked an obvious question to Fina: If you think this braceletgate is such a great criminal case, then go ahead and file charges. The Phila District Attorney's office has the primary jurisdiction on these matters. The PA. AG is mainly brought in when there is a conflict of interest.
Or a more basic question to Frank - why didn't you prosecute the case when you were Chief Deputy Attorney General for PA? Why did you leave a poorly thought-out case, with a single star prosecution witness who then refused to cooperate with any prosecutors, for your successor to deal with? Why did you agree to drop all of the many serious criminal charges against your star prosecution witness - so that he had no motivation to testify on this case?
After all, Frank, you were in charge of all public corruption cases in PA. from 2006 until a year ago.
http://www.attorneygeneral.gov/press.aspx?id=989
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Also, Franky, how did you manage to let the two Penn State administrators think that Penn State's attorney was representing their interests when they were being initially questioned by Corbett's office of attorney general. There were even questions raised at that hearing about who was representing who. Then you and your comrades had that very same Penn State attorney serve as a star prosecution witness against them?
Many attorneys think that cover-up case will fall apart because of that rookie mistake. Then, you wouldn't even let those Penn State administrators see copies of their own testimony.
http://onwardstate.com/2014/02/20/attorneys-claim-judge-deputy-attorney-general-treated-spanier-curley-and-schultz-unfairly-during-grand-jury/
Excerpt:
"The criticisms stem from the controversial role former Penn State General Counsel Cynthia Baldwin played in the proceedings as Penn State officials Spanier, Curley and Schultz believed she was their attorney. At the same time, Baldwin told Feudale that she was solely representing the university’s interests, according to transcripts.
Spanier’s attorneys argue that if Baldwin was representing the university, not the administrators individually, then Feudale and Fina acted improperly by allowing Baldwin to sit in during Spanier’s grand jury testimony as well as participate during the proceeding.
Additionally, if Baldwin was indeed representing the university, not the men individually, attorneys say Feudale and Fina should have clarified that with Spanier when he stated during his testimony that Baldwin was his attorney. Going further, attorneys say that if Baldwin was representing the university and not Spanier, then Feudale and Fina wrongly allowed Spanier to testify without legal representation."
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Here's more on Fina and his two fellow refuges from Corbett's AG office who now work for the Phila. Attorney General's office.
http://casablancapa.blogspot.com/2014/03/here-come-clowns.html
Click the link to see more detailed info on each of these matters.
"Fina, Blessington, and Costanzo were the same team that followed Corbett's instructions to leave his close political allies in the State Senate Republican Caucus untouched in the bonusgate investigations as Charlie Thompson from the Patriot News outlined last year (Patriot News 2/27/13). In fact, these three supposed corruption busters actually turned away the tipster who eventually brought down State Senator Jane Orie and Supreme Court Justice Joan Orie Melvin (2/21/13).
They ignored a referal from the Pennsylvania State Ethics Commission that found former Republican State Representative Matt Wright from Bucks County guilty of using his taxpayer funded legislative staff for the exact same purposes as the bonusgate defendants. Instead Fina, Costanzo, and Blessington followed Corbett's orders and ignored the referral because of strong connections in the case between Wright and the powerful Deon family (Inquirer 1/30/10).
Fina, Costanzo, and Blessington were found by the Patriot News and the ACLU to have no problem helping Tom Corbett's nascent gubernatorial campaign by egregiously abusing the state grand jury system to silence political opponents (Patriot News 5/25/10)
Worst of all is the unfolding scandal surrounding Fina's role in slow-walking the Jerry Sandusky investigation to avoid negative repercussions for Corbett's campaign for governor. As post-indictment riots attested the repercussions of the child molestation indictment proved quite harmful to the vaunted Penn State football brand and consequently quite unpopular. In fact, Fina and Costanzo were both still at the OAG when Corbett's replacement made the politically expedient decision to delete millions of emails. Both men stood by and allowed their destruction. (Pittsburgh Tribune Review 2/14/14)"
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Interesting case of musical chairs. Fina and two top members of Corbett's AG staff moved over the Phila. District Attorney's Office. Meanwhile, Corbett's daughter switched places from the Phila. District Attorney's office to the AG's office right before Kane took office. She suddenly started using her married name when she went to work for the state. Then her husband (a Phila. narcotics cop) was charged with criminal corruption.
http://www.post-gazette.com/news/politics-state/2013/02/02/Sting-followed-many-suspicions-about-honesty-of-Corbett-in-law/stories/201302020264
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I'm not an attorney, so please forgive me or correct me if I got some of the details wrong. However, there certainly seems to be a pattern.
For more info, read the last few years of posts on
http://casablancapa.blogspot.com. This is the blogger that Corbett's AG staff tried to unmask using a secret statewide grand jury. They had that grand jury approve a subpeona to Twitter requiring that Twitter reveal his identify. Twitter was ordered to not tell anyone that they received the subpeona. Fortunately, the execs of Twitter laughed at Corbett's office and went public with the story, and never revealed the blogger's name.
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100519/1031479492.shtml
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