Pennsylvania prosecutors balk at $2 million bill from Porngate investigator
HARRISBURG - Kathleen G. Kane, the convicted former state attorney general, may be out of office, but a legal fight is just beginning over her signature quest to investigate pornography shared over state computers.
Top lawyers with the Attorney General's Office are balking at paying the full $2 million billed by the special prosecutor Kane hired last year to investigate the scandal.
Douglas Gansler, a Washington lawyer, has already been paid $385,000 for his work. But in a meeting last week, Gansler was told the office was only willing to pay him and his firm, BuckleySandler, less than half of the approximately $1.5 million more it says it is owed, according to two sources familiar with the discussions.
The sources said the agency's highest-ranking officials, including Attorney General Bruce Beemer, are unhappy with Gansler's review and subsequent report on the emails, believing the report to be ineptly researched and unfairly careless about its impact on people's reputations. The sources spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to publicly discuss the negotiations.
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