HARRISBURG — Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen Kane will not suspend a senior aide who is charged with illegally trying to monitor a criminal investigation into her, her spokesman said Tuesday.

Patrick Reese will remain on the job, the spokesman said, despite an internal policy that requires suspension after an employee has been charged with criminal conduct related to their employment with the state.

Kane’s office decided that the allegations against Reese did not rise to the level of a suspension and that office policy never envisioned this kind of situation, spokesman Chuck Ardo said.

“They determined that the policy as written never envisioned an alleged violation such as the one in this case, which involves accessing a computer in violation of the rules,” Ardo said.

Montgomery County prosecutors charged Reese with criminal contempt on Aug. 6, the same day they charged Kane with perjury, obstruction and other charges.

Reese is accused of violating a Montgomery County judge’s protective order by searching the attorney general’s office e-mail archive for information about a court-ordered grand jury probe last year into allegations Kane leaked investigative information to a newspaper.