Kane aide files wrongful termination suit against her

http://www.philly.com/philly/news/20151215_Kane_aide_sues_for_wro...

Sign In | Register

Tuesday, December 15, 2015

62

Philadelphia, PA
NBC10 First Alert Weather

| News | Sports | Entertainment | Business | Opinion | Food | Lifestyle | Health |

BREAKING

NEWS VIDEO

BLOGS

PHILADELPHIA

NEW JERSEY

POLITICS

EDUCATION

OPINION

OBITUARIES

NATION/WORLD

WEATHER

More
TRAFFIC

LOTTERY

Elantra
$2,799 due at lease signing. Offer requires $500
Valued Owner Coupon or $500 Competitive Owner
Coupon. Customer must be a registered owner of a
Hyundai vehicle or eligible competitive vehicle to
receive coupon.

Kane aide files wrongful

termination suit against her
26 COMMENTS

Latest News Video

George Moore, a former aide to Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen Kane, has sued her for wrongful termination.
DAVID MAIALETTI / STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

Angela Couloumbis, HARRISBURG BUREAU

More videos:

LAST UPDATED: Tuesday, December 15, 2015, 1:08 AM

POSTED: Monday, December 14, 2015, 6:34 PM

HARRISBURG - A former aide to Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen G. Kane has

sued her over wrongful termination, contending he was dismissed in retaliation for
recommending the firing of her controversial chief of staff, who had been accused of
sexually harassing female colleagues.
George Moore, the office's former human resources analyst,

Most Viewed News Stories:

CB West football
player hit, killed on
skateboard

contends in a federal lawsuit filed Monday that Kane

terminated him shortly after he recommended that she fire
Jonathan Duecker, a confidant whom she was promoting to
chief of staff.

1 of 6

12/15/2015 3:15 AM

Kane aide files wrongful termination suit against her

http://www.philly.com/philly/news/20151215_Kane_aide_sues_for_wro...

Moore also says Kane and Duecker, whom he is also suing,

attempted to secretly quash allegations of sexual harassment
against Duecker from two female coworkers.

Witness: Kathryn
Knott 'standing'
during assault

Kane, he alleges, told another top aide that she "needed"

Duecker, and inquired what the women "would need to make
this go away," according to the lawsuit.

That tasty shrimp?

Peeled by slaves

Kane spokesman Chuck Ardo said Kane had not seen the
suit and would not comment on it.
Ardo is also being sued by Moore, who said Ardo told news
outlets last spring that Moore had been fired "for cause."
Moore said that was not true and noted that a year before he

Kane to Seth: Want

more porn? OK

was fired, he received an "outstanding" rating for his work.

"He got glowing evaluations," said Moore's lawyer, Patricia V.

Manayunk bar brawl

ends in stabbing

Pierce, a partner in the Philadelphia-based firm of Greenblatt

Pierce Engle Funt & Flores.
$2,949 due at lease signing. $0
security deposit required.

Sonata

Travel Deals

According to the lawsuit, Kane promoted Duecker despite a

report from her Internal Affairs unit informing her that he had
made unwanted sexual advances toward the two women.
One of the women, an assistant prosecutor, said Duecker
inappropriately touched her at a bar. The other, an agent, said
he entered her bedroom uninvited one evening in a house the
Attorney General's Office rented in Hazleton for agents
working with the Mobile Street Crimes unit.
Duecker has declined repeated requests for comment.
The Internal Affairs report was given to Kane five days before
she announced she was promoting Duecker - and the unit's
chief told Moore that Duecker had asked that the report "die
on the vine," according to the suit.

$839* & up -- Cancun:

4.5-Star All-Incl. 4-Nt. Trip
w/Air from Philly

*
See all travel deals

Kane, Moore alleges, also told a lawyer for the union that
represents agents in the office that she wanted Duecker to
remain in the job, and that she would fashion a favorable
contract if they helped "make this go away."
As The Inquirer has reported, FBI agents have questioned
several people about the alleged incident.

Shop Team Gear

Philadelphia Phillies
For Bare Feet 4-Stripe
Deuce Socks

On Monday, Pierce said she would "neither confirm nor deny"

that Moore had spoken with federal authorities.
Moore is the second employee fired by Kane to file suit in as
many months.
James Barker, the onetime head of the office's appeals
division, contends that Kane fired him last spring, just weeks
after learning that he had appeared before a grand jury

2 of 6

12/15/2015 3:15 AM

Kane aide files wrongful termination suit against her

http://www.philly.com/philly/news/20151215_Kane_aide_sues_for_wro...

29 Comments

Stan Caterbone

I have been the victim of a widespread civil and criminal conspiracy that dates back
to 1987 of the very same actors that Kathleen Kane is up against, the "good old
boys". In 1987 I blew the whistle on a local company, International Signal & Control,
or ISC, that was indicted for selling arms and weapons to Iraq via South Africa with
the aid and support of the CIA and the NSA. I was the victim of a widespread
wholesale cover-up through an elaborate slander campaign that included 29 false
arrests, multiple false imprisonments, and a fabricated mental illness record that to
this day is still resonating. Kathleen Kane must be commended for her courage and
her determination for taking on this culture of arrogance and total disregard for the
U.S. Constitution the rule of law that they so emphatically espouse to uphold. They
believe and conduct their affairs in a manner that suggest they are above the law
and the Pennsylvania taxpayers are beneath the law. The sad fact that it reaches
into the judiciary and law enforcement is undeniably the most outrageous and
deplorable truth to this scandal. Case in point, until yesterday I was the
APPELLANT in a case before the U.S. Third Circuit that involves the Habeus
Corpus for convicted and imprisoned Lisa Michelle Lambert. A murder case in the
early 1990's that was made famous when U.S. District Judge Stewart Dalzall found
her actually innocent due to "one of the worst cases of prosecutorial misconduct in
the English speaking language" and released her from prison. The case drew
nationwide attention when then Pennsylvania Attorney General Mike Fischer
enlisted the help of 9 other state attorney generals to curtail the reach of the federal
bench in state matters concerning Habeus Corpus cases. To make matters worst,
38,000 Lancastrians signed petitions to remove the Honorable Stewert Dalzal from
the federal bench. Mike Fisher and company won and LIsa MIchelle Lambert was
back in prison within 9 months and the case went back to the Lancaster County
Court of Common Pleas where she was again found guilty and sentenced to life in
prison. The case was covered by the LA Times, A&E producer Bill Curtis did a 48
Hours special, and Lifetime made it into a movie. These "Good Old Boys" made it so
difficult for me to litigate my efforts to free Lisa Michelle Lambert, that I had to
dismiss my appeal and effectively withdraw as her MOVANT and Advocate. I was
trying to persuade the courts that my own demise was the result of the same type of
wholesale prosecutorial misconduct by some of the very same principals that Lisa
MIchelle Lambert fell victim to. My efforts were so distasteful to the powers to be
that her court appointed attorney threatened me with criminal prosecution for no
other reason than I might actually be successful in helping her win the Habeus
Corpus she filed in May of 2014, and the U.S. District Judge was trying in vain to
invalidate and derail my own federal court cases that seek to restore me to whole
from a life of ruin, misery, torture, and financial collapse. I founded a financial firm in
the 1980's that reached 5 states and raised millions of dollars in a matter of 9
months. In the early the late 1980's and early 1990's I was one of 5 domestic
companies that had the capabilities of manufacturing CDROM's that included a
client list that reached across the globe and included government agencies and
fortune 500 companies. And in 1987, myself and a genius recording engineer
named Tony Bongiovi and his famous recording studio, Power Station Studios of
New York were developing and producing the first "digital movie". The intellectual
property rights and the RICO statutes that apply to my legal claims in federal courts
were too much for the "Good Old Boys" to handle. I think I'll sit this one out and
watch Kathleen Kane advocate by proxy.

4 of 6

12/15/2015 3:15 AM