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Castor To Become AG Kane's #2

By Tony Romeo

HARRSIBURG (CBS) -- Former Montgomery County Commissioner and former District Attorney Bruce Castor will join the state Attorney General's office as second in command to embattled Kathleen Kane.

Kathleen Kane has announced that Bruce Castor has been appointed to the newly created position of Solicitor General for the Attorney General's Office.

Castor will be second in command only to Kane, but Kane's spokesman Chuck Ardo insists the move is not an end run around First Deputy Bruce Beemer, who testified before the state Senate last year about his concerns related to Kane's suspended law license.

"Well, he continues to have the same powers he's had, and the same duties and obligations. So, it no way diminishes Mr. Beemer's authority," said Ardo.

Ardo also denies any political considerations in the appointment of Castor, a Republican, by Democrat Kane, saying Castor was chosen for the job because he's especially well qualified having run a large district attorney's office and can step into the post on day one.

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