Updated: Kane's Office Hit With Search Warrant

An anonymous source in Montgomery County has just informed me that prosecutors in that County have just served a search warrant for the Harrisburg office of embattled AG Kathleen Kane. It is unclear at this point what is being sought. The warrant is being executed at this very moment.

Updated from story that originally published on 4/10 at 6:00 pm.

Since the time of my initial reports, several statewide papers pickec yp on thhis story. The best of these is in The Inky, which notes that warrants have been served on two of Kane's offices, in Harrisburg and Norristown. It appears that these warrants are being executed by agents working for Montgomery County DA Risa Vetri Ferman.

The state supreme court has ruled recently that a judge had "inherent authority" to authorize an investigation into a grand jury leak, which ultimately led to a recommendation to prosecute Kane. DA Ferman has vowed to undertake her own investigation. Ferman, a Republican, is running for judge.

Daily News columnist John Baer, who has been chief among those leading the Kane Mutiny, wonders whether the steady drip, drop circling the drain means she's bound to go down, too.

Innocent or not, the integrity of her office has been impugned so badly that I believe it is interfering with that Office's ability to do its job fairly. A recent acquittal in an AG prosecution in Northampton County has several court observers scratching their heads. Defense attorney Tyree Blair did a great job in his first jury trial. But how many jurors have read stories about the AG's office?