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State
Attorney General Kathleen Kane has hired one of the most feared litigators in
the region, Richard A. Sprague, to represent her in possible defamation suits
arising from accounts of her decision to end an undercover investigation that
taped at least five Philadelphia Democrats accepting cash or gifts.
Sprague
said he would launch an investigation into the conduct of the prosecutors who
ran that sting operation, which began in 2010 before Kane took office. She has
said the case was mismanaged, possibly tainted by racial profiling, and far too
weak for any prosecutions.
Kane
arrived at a Thursday morning meeting with Inquirer editors and reporters,
flanked by a pair of lawyers, Sprague and his son, Thomas A. Sprague. The
meeting began on an unusual note when the elder Sprague announced that Kane was
his client - and that she would not speak.
Her
office had asked for the meeting following the newspaper's story Sunday that
disclosed the corruption investigation and her decision to halt it.
Read the full story: www.philly.comRelated: Kane shut down sting that snared Phila. officials
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