Post by Logan on Feb 4, 2016 1:45:38 GMT -6
Pa. Attorney General Kathleen Kane's 2015 campaign spending shows how she is funding her defense
Year-end campaign finance reports from Attorney General Kathleen Kane's political committee shows that Kane the candidate was more consumed last year by the direct threats to her first-term survival than a race for a second term.
Of $327,000 in expenditures reported by Kathleen Kane for Pennsylvania in 2015, nearly $300,000 of that was spent on survival-mode expenses including crisis communications help or legal defense work.
The bulk of Kane's expenditures in 2015 went to:
* $150,000 to the Winston & Strawn law firm, home to Kane's lead criminal defense attorney, Gerald Shargel, whose primary duty is getting Kane cleared of the charges against her.
* $130,059 to Lanny Davis, the Washington-based crisis communications specialist who clients have ranged from the Clinton family to post-Sandusky Penn State. His primary duty was help Kane respond to allegations before and shortly after the charges were filed.
* $19,228 to Scranton attorney Amil Minora, who has been assisting Shargel.
Read more: www.pennlive.com/news/2016/02/if_kathleen_kane_is_running_fo.html
Year-end campaign finance reports from Attorney General Kathleen Kane's political committee shows that Kane the candidate was more consumed last year by the direct threats to her first-term survival than a race for a second term.
Of $327,000 in expenditures reported by Kathleen Kane for Pennsylvania in 2015, nearly $300,000 of that was spent on survival-mode expenses including crisis communications help or legal defense work.
The bulk of Kane's expenditures in 2015 went to:
* $150,000 to the Winston & Strawn law firm, home to Kane's lead criminal defense attorney, Gerald Shargel, whose primary duty is getting Kane cleared of the charges against her.
* $130,059 to Lanny Davis, the Washington-based crisis communications specialist who clients have ranged from the Clinton family to post-Sandusky Penn State. His primary duty was help Kane respond to allegations before and shortly after the charges were filed.
* $19,228 to Scranton attorney Amil Minora, who has been assisting Shargel.
Read more: www.pennlive.com/news/2016/02/if_kathleen_kane_is_running_fo.html