She could have stayed in office until January 17, when a new attorney general selected by voters in November will be sworn in.
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The immunity of a key witness against Kathleen Kane could be under scrutiny, according to her successor, Acting Pennsylvania Attorney General Bruce L. Castor Jr. She didn’t discuss her conviction or potential appeal.
Kathleen Kane spent her last day as Pennsylvania’s attorney general in her office on Lackawanna Avenue in Scranton.
Also, according to Morrow’s testimony, he did not want his involvement in the Kane case to reflect poorly on his fiancée Shaughnessy N. Naughton.
Kane also launched a review of Corbett’s handling of the Jerry Sandusky child sex assault investigation, which set the stage for the feud that prosecutors say led her to release grand jury documents from a 2009 investigation of former NAACP President J. Whyatt Mondesire. Kane was convicted by a Montgomery County jury Monday of charges related to leaking secret Grand Jury information to a newspaper and then lying about it under oath.
Upon her 2012 election, Kane was seen as a rising star of the national Democratic party.
Kane insists that an “old boys’ club” are behind the charges against her to get revenge over the email scandal, which has already cost two state Supreme Court justices and other top government officials their jobs, and to stop her from releasing even more of the emails.
Last fall, Castor made an unsuccessful bid to return as the county’s top prosecutor in a race in which he was criticized by his opponent for not pursuing charges against Cosby in 2005.
Kane says she doesn’t know what’s next, but she’s looking forward to spending time with her children and she has no regrets.
Kane called her final day “bitter sweet”.
Kane showed little emotion as the verdict was announced. She did not testify in her own defense, and she left the courthouse without commenting.
Kane’s honeymoon as attorney general ended in March 2014, when The Philadelphia Inquirer reported that she had shut down an undercover sting that had caught a Philadelphia judge and five state lawmakers taking cash payments or gifts. A felony perjury charge, as one example, could bring up to seven years in prison, although few judges have handed down the maximum sentence.
The NAACP official, who was never charged, was smeared in the process, authorities said.
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“Somebody has told me that your future is always brighter than your past”, Kane said. Kane’s lawyers also complained that the judge had not allowed them to argue in court that the investigation had been propelled by former state prosecutors anxious that Kane would reveal their raunchy, pornographic interoffice emails she had discovered on the office’s services. Munchak is now in federal prison after his 2012 conviction on corruption charges.
