Kane should step down##&&Thursday, April##&&Sign In##&&Register##&&°##&&Philadelphia, PA##&&Bolaris’ Forecast##&&News##&&Sports##&&Entertainment##&&Business##&&Opinion##&&Food##&&Lifestyle##&&Health##&&More##&&Classifieds##&&Real Estate##&&Cars##&&Jobs##&&Obituaries##&&Marketplace##&&Shopping##&&Circulars##&&Print Offers Online##&&Events##&&Local Deals##&&Breaking##&&News Video##&&Blogs##&&Philadelphia##&&New Jersey##&&Politics##&&Education##&&Opinion##&&Obituaries##&&Nation/World##&&Weather##&&Traffic##&&Lottery##&&Kane should step down##&&Share##&&1K##&&Tweet##&&Reddit##&&Email##&&Comments##&&Reprints &##&&Permissions##&&»##&&Editorial: Attorney General Kathleen Kane has not lived up to her 
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 self-destructing attorney general, Kathleen Kane, should resign. This 
week alone, The Inquirer has reported that she disrupted a second 
political corruption case, while the Supreme Court upheld a probe into 
her dissemination of grand jury information that could yield criminal 
charges.##&&It's now clear that since her early days in office, Kane's attempts 
to protect legitimate law enforcement targets and smear rivals have been
 at odds with the public interest.##&&The latest revelation is that Kane undermined a investigation of
 a former state gambling regulator with ties to Louis DeNaples, a 
politically connected Scranton millionaire accused of dealings with mob 
figures, The Inquirer's Craig R. McCoy and Angela Couloumbis reported. 
Kane told aides that a prosecutor had been "overly aggressive" and 
unfair to DeNaples and his associate William Conaboy, another powerful 
political figure, both of whom were witnesses in the case.##&&Five months after Kane revoked subpoenas issued to the pair, a 
DeNaples business donated to her campaign fund. She eventually 
returned the money.##&&The gambling regulator was being investigated for allegedly spying 
for DeNaples as he sought a casino license. The regulator later got a 
job at DeNaples' casino.##&&Also in her first year in office, Kane killed an investigation 
of six Philadelphia politicians, all fellow Democrats, saying it was 
tainted by targeting of African Americans. That smear was refuted when 
Philadelphia District Attorney Seth Williams took over the case and 
brought charges against all of them.##&&Kane is further accused of leaking grand jury information about a 
failed probe to the Daily News in an apparent effort to shame another 
prosecutor.##&&She feuded with fellow prosecutors after campaigning on a promise to 
investigate whether the Attorney General's Office under former Gov. Tom 
Corbett stalled the investigation into Penn State child predator Jerry 
Sandusky. To her obvious disappointment, she found no evidence of 
prosecutorial misconduct.##&&The Editorial Board endorsed Kane's candidacy partly because of her 
seeming promise as a reformer and professional prosecutor. But she has 
demonstrated that she is not up to the task. Given her repeated 
unspooling of corruption investigations and the looming possibility that
 she will be prosecuted herself, it is difficult to see how Kane can 
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