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Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner responded to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives Select Committee on Restoring Law and Order’s request for a written statement on Friday, stating he is “utterly disappointed” in its approach to impeach him and said it’s only being done to score “political points.”
Krasner said in his letter to the Select Committee that it has “repeatedly refused” to speak with him, whether at public or private hearing, and said that the committee instead asked him to write a written statement.
“Instead of meeting with me in person, publicly or privately, you asked me to submit a written statement as long as it was submitted within a very short deadline, due today at 5:00 p.m. You did not specify the questions I should answer or the topics I should address. You said only that it should be “relevant to the Select Committee’s work,” Krasner said in the response.
He added that there’s “no mystery” why the Friday deadline is important to the committee.
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“Today is the last business day before the House convenes on Monday (for its last sessions prior to the midterm election), and you’d like to give the appearance of hearing from me before you recommend my impeachment as District Attorney of Philadelphia,” Krasner added.
The Philadelphia District Attorney accused the Select Committee of never specifying what the “basis of impeachment is,” alleging that “there has been no suggestion of criminal conduct or corruption of any kind.”
“Every decision I make as District Attorney is with the goal of seeking justice and improving public safety. That is my oath. Public safety has always been my primary goal, and I have never deviated from more intensely focusing on the most serious and violent offenses,”…
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