Maybe Tom Corbitt thinks the State Constitution only calls for him to operate his office in a partisan manner? Or maybe he’s just a rank political whore.

While you raise excellent points, you are mistaken that Corbett has “gone after some of the biggest fish in the Capitol.”. His original round of indictments included only a single sitting legislator, a a sophomore rank-and-filer who just happened to be running in a competitive Senate race. When pulic pressure forced him to turn his sights on Republicans, Corbett again chose to indict a single rank-and-file member. DeWeese, the only member of leadership to be charged, was targeted on lesser charges only after published reports revealed the extent of the evidence against him, yet he remains uncharged in the caucus-wide activities at the the center of “Bonusgate.”

Why should it surprise anyone that he turned a blind eye when his office initially received a complaint about Orie? She is a political ally. Look at the favor he did for his political ally and his republican representative in Bedford County. Bedford County District ATtorney was accused of rape and Corbett said it comes down to her word against his and that is not enough for a rape case to go forward. Most rape caes are he said/she said and here Higgins even admitted the sex act and offered a county commissioner a favor to keep everything quiet. But Corbett said everything was okay. Wasn’t the attorney for the Bill Higgins the Bedford District Attorney accused of raping a woman, Attorney Gleason from Johnstown whose firm and family are high officials in the Pa Republican Party? Sounds like the perfect attorney to talk Corbett into not doing a full and objective rape investigation in return for possible political favors? But then again, it was just a standing District Attorney with multiple assault convictions already on his record, why take a claim that he raped a woman in his office seriously?

He could have looked no closer than the Orie brother who works for him in the AG office or looked at the nomination petitions she circulated for him using senate staffers.
I would use the McGruff crime dog metaphor but that reminds me of the child predator that worked for Orie in Senate and dressed up like furry animals. I bet the AG’s office has really thrown the book at him.
Yea right.
What a cesspool.

Hold on a second. Not only does Jennifer Knapp Rioja “insist” that she called the AG first, her cellphone records show the order of the calls she made. This isn’t one woman’s word against someone else’s word. It’s a fact. She called OAG first. Period. End of story.

The problem here is that PA voters are not paying attention to the partisan prosecutorial hypocrisy of Corbett. Perhaps they are so used to political corruption that they are no longer sensitive to the seriousness of this particular corruption in public office.

And perhaps the mainsteam media is lying down on the job by not making this a running front page issue. Or maybe that is Onorato’s job and he’s not doing it vehemently enough. To be frank, the media likes nothing better than to sit back and let others do their job for them. Whatever happened to the good old days of investigative reporting and crusading journalists?

Why didn’t Corbett investigate and indict the Ories? Because their brother Jerry is on his staff in the Attorney General’s office. That, and plain old partisanship, gives the Ories immunity from prosecution by Tom Corbett.