Kane releases explicit emails tied to state Supreme Court justice

HARRISBURG >> Attorney General Kathleen Kane on Thursday made good on her promise to release emails received by a state Supreme Court justice that include nude photos and videos of women, raunchy and juvenile humor and other content demeaning to women.

The three dozen emails or email exchanges recovered from her agency’s servers, and which she tied to Justice Michael Eakin, were recovered during the course of an unrelated investigation.

She sent the material to the state Judicial Conduct Board for review and to determine whether the justice has undermined confidence in the state’s highest court.

Much of it had already been the subject of stories in the Philadelphia Daily News or was described by Kane this week in a letter to Chief Justice Thomas Saylor.

In nearly all cases, Eakin is the recipient rather than the sender.

The emails and their attachments are a mixture of photos, text, slide shows and videos. One short video clip appears to show, from behind, a man having sex with a hugely obese woman while the music from “Mission Impossible” plays.

Much of the content appeared to be intended as humor.

A series of fake “motivational posters” included one that says “you failed the gay test” if you noticed a sponsor’s logo in the background behind four scantily clad women on a beach volleyball court.

An email captioned “morning funnies” showed children, some still infants, seeming to ogle women’s bodies, posing with empty beer bottles or making obscene gestures. There were also clips that included a family dinner interrupted when the apparent daughter rips open her shirt, telling her parents: “I got these pierced because I hate you.”