Prosecutor says Pennsylvania attorney general and her sister also received offensive emails
A prosecutor with the Philadelphia District Attorney’s office said on Wednesday that Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen Kane has received some of the same offensive emails that ensnared judges and prosecutors in the so-called Porngate scandal.
Prosecutor Mark Gilson of the Philadelphia District Attorney’s office said Kane had received 11 offensive emails, report the Legal Intelligencer (sub. req.) and PennLive.com. Her sister Ellen Granahan Goffer, a prosecutor in Kane’s office, received 58, Gilson alleged.
In response to the revelation, Kane released the emails, but said in a statement that only one was forwarded to her, and it was four years before she took office as attorney general, Pennlive.com reports in a separate story. Fifty-four of the emails related to her sister, the statement said.
“Today’s conduct by the Philadelphia ADAs is yet another childish example of the Philadelphia District Attorney trying to defame me and my family to ‘protect his guys,’” Kane wrote in the statement.
Kane spokesman Chuck Ardo said in a statement that “Neither the attorney general nor her sister believes these emails rise to the level of pornographic or inappropriate.”
The email sent to Kane had the subject line “Pictures Taken At Exactly the Wrong Time.” It included photos of a soldier in a kilt with his genitalia visible, a photo of President George W. Bush holding a phone handset backwards, and an African American news broadcaster who resembled a sketch of a rape suspect, according to Pennlive.com.
According to the Pennlive.com story, other emails received by Goffer included these attachments:
—A photo of two men and a woman with bruises on her face entitled: “Domestic Violence: Because sometimes, you have to tell her more than once.”
—A picture of a naked man in a sink with his genitals hidden from view.
—A “motivational poster” of two Asian men with the title “ROR: Raff Out Roud.”
—A photo of an obese black woman wearing a black dress titled “Black: ain’t always slimming.”
Misspelling of “Goffer” on first reference corrected at 11:15 a.m.
