Term about over, Pennsylvania’s top prosecutor goes on trial

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The Washington Post :

Term about over, Pennsylvania’s top prosecutor goes on trial

 

By Maryclaire Dale | AP August 7 at 8:33 AM

PHILADELPHIA — Pennsylvania’s attorney general goes on trial Monday in a perjury and obstruction case that comes at the end of a tumultuous four years in office marked by petty feuds, a pornographic email scandal and political intrigue.

 

Kathleen Kane remains on the job even though she lost her law license over her felony arrest. An ethics board accused her of “egregious conduct” amid criminal charges she leaked grand jury material to a newspaper to embarrass enemies and then lied about it under oath.

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Kathleen Kane, soon-to-be former Pennsylvania Attorney General, and soon-to-be jailbird

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16 August 2016, 7:21 am

From The Philadelphia Inquirer:

Jury: A.G. Kane guilty of perjury, obstruction, all other charges

by Craig R. McCoy, Angela Couloumbis, and Laura McCrystal, Philadelphia Inquirer Staff Writers | Updated: AUGUST 15, 2016 — 11:31 PM EDT

 

Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen G. Kane was convicted Monday of perjury, obstruction, and other crimes, after squandering her once-bright political future on an illegal vendetta against an enemy.

 

Four years after Kane’s election in a landslide as the first Democrat and first woman elected attorney general, a jury of six men and six women found her guilty of all charges: two counts of perjury and seven misdemeanor counts of abusing the powers of her office.

 

Montgomery County District Attorney Kevin R. Steele persuaded jurors that Kane orchestrated the illegal leak of secret grand jury documents to plant a June 2014 story critical of her nemesis, former state prosecutor Frank Fina. Kane then lied about her actions under oath, the jury found.

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