As Attorney General Kathleen Kane prepares to defend herself against felony perjury charges, her office is continuing to prosecute two high-profile criminal cases with Luzerne County ties.

Convicted double-murderer Hugo Selenski is still awaiting trial on witness intimidation charges in Dauphin County, and suspended Luzerne County Transportation Authority officials Stanley Strelish and Robb Henderson are awaiting trial in the Ghost Rider scandal, accused of conspiring to inflate senior citizen ridership numbers to boost state funding for the agency.Area attorneys say they don't think the charges against Kane will have much of an impact on those cases, but some said the charges do add to a growing list of concerning behavior to come from the office under her leadership.Former Luzerne County chief public defender Al Flora Jr., who had a hand in both of those cases, pointed to the criminal prosecution of Selenski's legal team in the buildup to his murder trial, a case in which Kane's office charged defense attorney Shelley Centini and investigator James Sulima with witness intimidation, obstruction of justice and perjury.A January 2014 indictment prepared by the office described them as acting as a "cabal of criminals" that tried to sabotage the case against the killer.In June 2014, a Dauphin County magistrate tossed the charges against Centini and Sulima, saying the prosecution failed to prove its case.Flora, who also represents Henderson in the LCTA case, noted that the same Dauphin County magistrate dismissed 12 counts against Henderson in September, leaving him to face 15 counts at trial."They charged him for acts when he wasn't even the operations manager," Flora said. "Apparently prosecutors missed that."Flora said Kane's office is staffed with competent prosecutors, but he questioned what has been taking place under Kane's watch.Pittston-based attorney Girard J. Mecadon said he didn't foresee the charges against Kane having a major impact on criminal cases. But he noted that deputy attorney generals are responsible for taking cases to court, and they seem to have been effective under various administrations.