It’s been said politics is dirty. More often than not “dirty politics” refers to government officials taking money from special interests and corporations.
Pennsylvania leads the way, redefines DIRTY POLITICS and brings it to the electronic age. PA Attorney General Kathleen Kane revealed PA Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) Secretary E. Christopher Abruzzo and at least 8 other prominent state officials exchanged sexually explicit photos, videos, and messages from state e-mail accounts between 2008 and 2012.
The “P-mails” (porn-mail) were discovered during Kane’s internal inquiry into how her predecessors handled Jerry Sandusky pedophile case. Governor Tom Corbett was one of the Attorney Generals handling the Sandusky investigation. The Sandusky criminal investigation began while Corbett was serving as attorney general and continued through 2010, the year Corbett made his run for governor. Sandusky was arrested in November 2011, a year after Corbett’s election.
Abruzzo was appointed as Acting DEP Secretary following the resignation of DEP Secretary Michael Krancer in early 2013. In December 2013, Abuzzo was confirmed as DEP Secretary. Prior to taking over the DEP, Abruzzo served as Deputy Chief of Staff to Governor Corbett, and was appointed as Chief Deputy Attorney General in the Pennsylvania Attorney General’s Office, supervisor of the Drug Strike Force Section by then Attorney General Tom Corbett in 2005.
Other P-Mailers include:
- Frank Noonan, the current state police commissioner
- Kevin Harley who had been Corbett’s top spokesman both when Corbett was attorney general and after he became governor.
- Former ranking prosecutors Patrick Blessington, who now works with the Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office
- Glen Parno, former chief of the environmental crimes section of the Attorney General’s Office, who now works in the Department of Environmental Protection
- Chris Carusone, who played a key role in corruption prosecutions of state legislators and was Corbett’s former liaison to the legislature
- Richard A. Sheetz, former executive deputy attorney general in the office’s Criminal Law division
- Retired agent Randy Feathers, the onetime regional director of the office’s Bureau of Narcotics Investigations. He was appointed by Corbett to the Pennsylvania Board of Probation and Parole. Feathers also oversaw the Sandusky case.
The P-mails include photos and videos of women and men engaged in oral sex, anal sex, and intercourse. The videos have titles such as “Cigar,” “Chin strap,” “Golf Ball washer,” and “Rocking Horse.” The photographs included naked women and motivational posters, with slogans such as “Devotion” and “Willingness,” that depicted women performing sex acts on their male bosses.
How’s that for family values?
A spokeswoman for Kane could not immediately say whether there are more current or former employees who received the P-mails. This leads one to believe there are indeed more current and former employees yet to be named.
Although the P-mails were limited to state e-mail accounts between 2008 and 2012, did the P-mails continued beyond that time frame?
As previously mentioned the P-mails were discovered during the investigation of Corbett not doing anything about the Sandusky case while Corbett was Attorney General.
Corbett stated he only became aware of the P-mails in recent months. How many recent months? Was it two, three, four or more “recent” months? We don’t know, and there seems to be no indication he did anything about it.
When state employees are busy sending P-mails and the Governor does nothing, is it any wonder that Pennsylvania is fracked up?
In the 2013 State of the Speech Corbett said “Our job isn’t to explain why things can’t be better. Our obligation is to make things better. We ran on the promise to change Harrisburg. Leave it to the historians to write our history. Our job is to make history-now.”
We’ll have to wait and see if the P-Mails makes a bit of history now.
What happens next? My prediction - With Corbett’s re-election prospects being very dim, there will be a day or two of spin and damage control. At the very least Corbett’s office will issue a frowney face 🙁 statement and the P-Mail 8 will be resigning one by one.
©201 by Dory Hippauf
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thanks, for more details on this; might this lead to more investigations on what goes on behind closed doors
of our elected and appointed officials…and who know what they will find next… thanks, to State DA Kane for pursuing
the investigation of Corbett……..and like you say, now we can see why 33 counties are being “fracked” and sacrificed
for the lust of officials who are out of control in their need for wealth and power….
And Terry Pegula one of the biggest ‘frackers’ of East Resources who employed all of 9 people and had numerous violations, appointed Cliff Benson, Chief Development Officer to the Buffalo Sabres, when he bought the Sabres with his fracking money. This happened right after the Jerry Sandusky arrest. Cliff Benson is former board member to the Second Mile. All I want to know is what ex-board member of the Second Mile will Terry Pegula appoint to head the Buffalo Bills. Tell me these pair don’t make a creepy corrupt couple (and why aren’t they being investigated into their connections to the Jerry Sandusky)? Money is the root of all evil
READ: Of Hockey Pucks and Natural Gas
http://www.nofrackingway.us/2012/10/03/of-hockey-pucks-and-natural-gas/