How did Corbett manage to avoid prosecuting anyone involved with the PA. Senate? (Feds found plenty)

[JPZenger]

Last edited Sat Mar 17, 2012, 07:03 PM - Edit history (1)

Hint - During the years of Corbett's investigation, the Republicans controlled the Senate but the Dems controlled the House. Everyone charged by Corbett was a House member or a staffer for the House.

http://casablancapa.blogspot.com/

Excerpts:

"One state senator is on trial on accusations of illegal campaign work. Another is about to plead guilty to charges of illegal campaign work. Yet not a single pundit, politician, watchdog or journalist finds it worth mention that the Governor of our fair Commonwealth, while Attorney General, claimed to have investigated the Senate for illegal campaign work and came up with zilch.

Nearly two years ago, when the Allegheny County District Attorney arrested then-Senate GOP Whip Jane Orie, a few Capitol-watchers briefly lifted their heads from their desks. Laura Vecsey of the Patriot-News sniffled: If the Bonusgate probe did what the Attorney General’s office said—that is, probed all four caucuses of the state legislature—how come Senate Republican computers were allegedly still storing campaign files?

...Once again we return to the age-old question: is Tom Corbett corrupt, or simply the worst prosecutor in the history of jurisprudence? We know that an intern actually called Corbett's office to report illegal campaign work going on in the Senate, but Corbett's office blew her off.

... Though the Senate GOP claimed to have turned over "tens of thousands" of documents" to Corbett's office, not a single Senator or staffer was subpoenaed. Yet, when county and federal prosecutors subpoenaed staffers in both caucuses, they apparently had plenty to say.
Even the most slavering Corbett sycophant now realizes that Corbett was lying when he claimed to have investigated the Senate, even as he squandered taxpayer resources going through the motions for sake of appearances."

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From the comments:
1st guy: How in the world can you explain how Corbett could have investigated the Senate and not caught Mellow, or Musto, or Fumo, or Orie, or...

2nd guy: Easy, all you have to do is shut your eyes.

[appleannie1]

1. Fair to mention the one Orie sister is on the PA Supreme Court and admitted to evidence

tampering but refuses to step down. Corbett was only trying to ferret out Dems doing wrong while enabling Republicans to cover their wrong doing up. Penn State sex scandal comes to mind.

[HopeHoops]

2. He had "other priorities" like taking calls from fracking sponsors.