As H. Geoffrey Moulton Jr. begins what new state Attorney General Kathleen Kane promised will be a complete examination of her predecessors’ handling of the Jerry Sandusky sex-abuse case, sources in the white-collar bar said the environment in which the original investigators worked will be just as important as the actual decisions they made.

Moulton, a former federal prosecutor and current professor at Widener University School of Law in Delaware, has been tasked with navigating what some have called a political minefield in his probe of the office, which was led by Governor Tom Corbett when it first started investigating Sandusky in 2008.