County prosecutors allege they discovered evidence that Kane signed a so-called “secrecy oath” on her second day in office on January 17, 2013, promising her secrecy for statewide investigating grand juries one through 32. The oath compelled Kane to maintain the secrecy of all matters occurring before past and present statewide grand juries, prosecutors alleged. Her twin sister, a senior lawyer on her staff, sat in the front row.
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Once a rising star in the state Democratic party, Kane, 49, has instead seen her term marred by scandal and a dizzying rate of turnover among her top aides. She calls the charges payback for her crusade to root out judges, lawyers and others who traded offensive and pornographic emails on state servers.
Demchick-Alloy said Monday she expects the trial to take “approximately one week, give or take”.
Judge Wendy Demchick-Alloy also read a list of around 50 to 60 potential witnesses to the possible jury members.
The witness list was still unavailable, but key witnesses against Kane are expected to include her former first deputy, Adrian King, and supervisory agent David Peifer.
Surrounded by her security guards, Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen Kane arrived at the Montgomery County Courthouse Monday more than an hour before jury selection in her trial was scheduled to begin.
Kane remains on the job even though she lost her law license over the felony arrest. But when they started into her 2012 campaign for Attorney General, two objections from prosecutors, the first over-ruled, the second resulting in an in-chambers sidebar. Kane claims officials trying to protect their pornography set her up.
Last week, she filed a last-minute motion with the state Supreme Court, asking to have the case dismissed.
NORRISTOWN, Pa. (AP) – Pennsylvania’s attorney general has gone on trial in a perjury and obstruction case that prosecutors say stems from her drive for political revenge. Kane, the first woman and first Democrat elected state attorney general, is charged with leaking secret grand jury information to a Philadelphia reporter to embarrass enemies and then lying about it under oath.
The records were the basis of a June 2014 article in the Philadelphia Daily News that was critical of former deputy attorneys general with whom Kane had a long-running feud stemming from her campaign promise to review her predecessor’s handling of the Sandusky case.
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