HARRISBURG — A former employee of the state attorney general’s office said today he will retire from the state Board of Probation and Parole after the attorney general claimed he sent more than three dozen pornographic or sexually explicit e-mails and received more than 400.

Also, state Supreme County Justice Seamus McCaffery is said to involved by sending and receiving pornographic e-mails.

Randy Feathers, who supervised agents who investigated Jerry Sandusky, said in a news release that he will retire from the $116,000-a-year job at the end of the month.

Feathers said his retirement — after Gov. Tom Corbett pressured him to resign — “should not be taken as an acknowledgment of the degree of wrongdoing” that Attorney General Kathleen Kane has alleged against him.

“I never initiated any of the referenced pornography nor did I ever view any pornographic videos,” wrote Feathers. “These accusations date back more than five years and my efforts to hire an independent forensic expert to exonerate myself have not been answered.”

He said his decision to retire on Oct. 30 was prompted because he can no longer be effective in the job.

Chief Justice Ron Castille issued a news release today that said Justice McCaffery sent most of the pornographic e-mails to a now-retired agent with the attorney general’s office, who then forwarded them to others.

Feathers is the fourth former employee of the attorney general’s office to step down from government positions since Kane last month disclosed details of the email traffic in the office under Corbett and the two attorneys general who succeeded him after he was elected governor four years ago.

Corbett has said he was unaware of the pornographic e-mails, and there have been no allegations he received or sent any.