Kane aide handed 3 to 6 month jail sentence

Mar 04, 2016, 11:20

A judge convicted Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen Kane's driver and bodyguard, Patrick Reese, for criminal contempt after prosecutors say he went through computer files to keep tabs on the criminal investigation of his boss.

The dispute arose over a protection order issued by Common Pleas Judge William R. Carpenter, who banned Kane's aides from accessing an office email server to guard the secrecy of the grand jury proceedings.

Prosecutors said Reese illegally sorted through emails sent to and from employees of the attorney general's office to find out which workers in the office were cooperating with a special prosecutor.

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Reese's searches through grand jury emails occurred as Kane was being investigated for allegedly leaking evidence from a 2009 investigation to a newspaper reporter. He says Reese never knew of the order.

"It is unlikely that Mr. Reese's status with the office will change before the legal process has concluded, including his right to appeal", said Kane's spokesman Chuck Ardo.

"Senior Supervisory Special Agent Reese was doing the job he was sworn to uphold". The grand jury later charged her with perjury, obstruction and other crimes. She has pleaded not guilty and is scheduled for an August trial. He left an electronic footprint of searches for grand jury subpoenas and schedules, names of people involved in the investigation of Kane, and even the identity of a grand juror. Last month, she announced that she would not seek reelection. But prosecutors said the order was widely discussed in Kane's office. "He didn't care", Carpenter said.

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"It was intentional. He knew that it was wrong".

Reese, 48, a former Lackawanna County police chief hired by Kane in 2013 to lead her security detail.

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