The release states that newly discovered evidence shows that Kane “lied in sworn testimony before the Thirty-Fifth Statewide Investigating Grand Jury when she repeatedly claimed that she was never sworn to secrecy for Investigating Grand Jury #29”. And in January, Bradbury wrote, Kane’s then-attorney Lanny Davis said in a news release that she “never took an oath of secrecy regarding that 2009 grand jury”.
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It all made me think that Kane might have a point when she says she is being targeted by an “old boys’ network” among the state’s officials. A spokesman for Kane’s office referred questions about the latest charges to her personal attorneys.
Kane was expected to appear at Rebar’s office to be arraigned on the new charges at 4:30 p.m. The grand jury from which she is accused of leaking information was Grand Jury No. 29. The misdemeanor charges are based on a signed secrecy oath she signed shortly after taking office in early 2013.
Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen Kane is scheduled to be back in court for arraignment on new counts of perjury, obstruction and false swearing. Prosecutors say she leaked confidential information from a 2009 grand jury probe and then tried to cover it up.
But the district attorney’s office said her signed oath was recovered during a search of her Harrisburg offices September 17, contradicting her claims that no such document existed.
NORRISTOWN The recent search of Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen Kane’s Harrisburg office turned up what Montgomery County prosecutors likely consider the smoking gun of their investigation into Kane’s alleged lies to an investigative grand jury.
The new charges were announced Thursday morning by Montgomery County’s district attorney. But it so happens that there are widespread calls for Kane to resign her position, a step she has (as of this writing) refused to take.
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The pornographic email scandal has already resulted in the firing of or discipline against dozens of employees of Kane’s office and caused Supreme Court Justice Seamus McCaffery to abruptly retire late previous year.
