Pennsylvania's Attorney General Kathleen Kane is used to going up against criminals, not her own colleagues. But after she helped expose an email scandal in the state government, her career has been in jeopardy. In 2014, Kane's office released close to 400 pages of emails between state government employees, including some high-ranking state officials, exchanged on the state's email server that were full of racism, sexism and pornography. The scandal was dubbed Porngate, and Kane said it involved a number of judges, prosecutors and law enforcement officials. I couldn't believe there was violence involved, and I couldn't believe this wasn't just some Playboy photos ... 398 pages, much of it hard-core porn," Kane told "Nightline." When she exposed the state email scandal ...Pennsylvania's political good old boys club was furious [with Kane] and came after her. Amid calls for her resignation from Gov. Tom Wolf, the Montgomery County prosecutor charged Kane in August 2015 with perjury, obstruction of justice and criminal conspiracy. The state Supreme Court has suspended her law license over these charges, and she could face jail time. Kane said it's revenge from those good old boys in the email scandal.
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