Pennsylvania’s attorney general found guilty in perjury case
NORRISTOWN, Pa. — Pennsylvania’s attorney general showed little emotion Monday night as she was convicted of leaking grand jury secrets and lying about it under oath.
In calling her a flight risk, the judge ordered Kathleen Kane, 50, to surrender her passport and threatened to jail her if she retaliated against the once-trusted aides who testified against her.
“The court is concerned, especially with respect to her potential to flee, particularly with her going to Haiti (in 2014) in the middle of her office’s tumult, and leaving no one watching the store,” Judge Wendy Demchick-Alloy told Kane’s lawyers.
Kane’s political consultant, testifying with a grant of immunity, changed his grand jury testimony last week to tell jurors that he had “conspired” with Kane to leak the grand jury material and then frame her chief deputy for the crime.