Kane, a 49-year-old first-term Democrat, is accused of leaking secret grand jury information to the press, lying under oath and ordering aides to illegally snoop through computer files to keep tabs on an investigation into the leak.
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A perjury conviction alone could land Kane in prison for up to seven years. “She wanted to, she said, ‘I’m going to take on Harrisburg.’ Well, guess what”.
Kane has said releasing the pornographic emails exchanged by office employees is crucial to her defense strategy, but her office said last week it has concerns disclosing them could be perceived as retaliating against witnesses in the criminal case against her.
After the hearing, Shargel told a swarm of reporters and photographers that Kane will be vindicated in what he termed a “very, very odd case”.
During his own news conference, Steele declined to answer questions about whether Montgomery County District Attorney Risa Vetri Ferman has granted Peifer immunity or some other deal for his testimony.
Attorney Gerald Shargel sparred with a judge Monday over the validity of official oppression and conspiracy charges against Attorney General Kathleen Kane.
He testified he took a copy of a transcript of that interview to a meeting he had with Kane and several other people on March 25, 2014.
“The entire story hasn’t come out yet”. But her stock began to fall through a series of political dramas.Kane and her prosecutors have painted wildly different pictures of the circumstances that led to the charges.
“I’m not going to try the case in the media”.
Bradbury addressed Kane’s assertions in her testimony that she was not covered by grand jury secrecy rules as applied to the Mondesire case because she never had any role before that 2009 grand jury. He left the transcript – which was among the documents leaked to the Philadelphia Daily News in 2014 – with Kane, he said. That document was also leaked to the newspaper, which ran a story detailing the Mondesire probe of June 6, 2014.
A story about the case appeared in the paper last June, a few months after the Inquirer wrote about Kane’s decision to not prosecute a handful of local lawmakers who were caught accepting bribes from a lobbyist as part of an undercover sting. The two were Montgomery County Detective Paul Bradbury and David C. Peifer, the Attorney General’s special agent in charge of the Bureau of Special Investigations. Shargel stated Mondesire could not lose his fame a second time.
Bradbury said investigators had not checked for fingerprints. She has rejected calls for her resignation, including from the governor, and has vowed she will seek re-election next year.
Rebar refused to allow the evidence after Michelle Henry, a Bucks County prosecutor specially assigned to assist in the prosecution, objected.
“That is absurd”, she said.
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Whether it was an innocent show of family support, an intentional decoy or a mixture of both, Kathleen Kane’s twin sister caused a bit of confusion during an appearance at the Montgomery County Courthouse Monday.
