The ongoing debacle in the office of Kathleen Kane, Pennsylvania's Attorney General, continues to grow as new accusations of wrongdoings, clandestine activities, threats and intimidations spew forth each week.

                The two latest reports send a message that not only Kane, but staff members within the office of the Attorney General could be involved in the questionable, if not illegal, actions.  Some of those accusations should be downright scary for John and Jane Q. Public.

                The latest news is that someone in the Attorney General's office gained access to the private emails of a state judge, without his permission or knowledge, and offered to provide them to the news media.

                According to a report in the Philadelphia Inquirer on Wednesday, Kane's representatives obtained copies of Judge Barry Feudale's 2013 email exchanges with personal lawyers and Inquirer reporters.  According to Feudale, he used his own personal computers to exchange those emails and that he was not in a government job at the time the messages were sent, and he had no access to state-issued computers at the time.  His service provider confirmed that nobody from the Attorney General's office had accessed his account with a search warrant or wiretap order.

                Spokespersons for the Attorney General's office denied having any information about any department involvement in obtaining or distributing Feudale's emails.

                However, Kane's spokesman, Chuck Ardo, added that news organizations had recently contacted Kane's office, saying they had copies of the judge's emails. But he insisted that neither Kane nor anyone in her office had any role in providing them to reporters, or acquiring them in the first place.

                The messages between Feudale and reports were not sent to addresses routed through computers in the Attorney General's office and makes them different from the "porngate" emails that Kane has made public.

                The Feudale emails were exchanged among the private accounts of the judge, two Inquirer reporters and two lawyers.

                If that isn't enough, yesterday news was released that Montgomery County Judge William Carpenter, who supervised a grand jury that investigated Kane who happens to also be presiding over the contempt trial of one of her confidants, shared his suspicions that he and his family may have been under surveillance by unidentified individuals last year.

                In a separate article, the Inquirer reported that Carpenter made the remarks, in the interest of full disclosure, as he was about to hold a hearing on a request to disqualify himself from the upcoming trial of onetime member of Kane's security detail, Patrick Rocco Reese.

                Carpenter was quoted as saying, "I would like to disclose to the defense something that is known to the prosecution, but likely is not known to the defense and that is that last fall I was followed and our house was under surveillance… and when my wife drove the car that I normally drove she was also followed."

                Carpenter expressed that he didn't know who was responsible and no way attributed it to anyone.

                If the surveillance accusation is true, I would think that either, or both, the Montgomery County District Attorney's Office and the Pennsylvania Attorney General's Office would be investigating.

                Stay tuned – right now everybody's busy with the upcoming election.