AG Kathleen Kane charged with another count of perjury

Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen Kane is scheduled to be back in court for arraignment on new counts of perjury, obstruction and false swearing.

Among the charges leveled on Kane by Risa Vetri Ferman are Obstructing Administration of Law, Abuse of Office, Criminal Conspiracy, and Perjury. These original charges stemmed from an investigation that revealed that Kane personally orchestrated the illegal disclosure of confidential investigative information and secret grand jury information to the media and subsequently engaged in criminal acts created to hide and cover-up her crimes.

Prosecutors say they recovered such a document from Kane’s office.

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.

It seemed odd to me that both parties were evidently so eager to rid the state of Kane’s services.

Eakin did not immediately respond Thursday to a message seeking comment.

Montgomery County charged Kathleen Kane on Thursday with another perjury count, saying its detectives had found a secrecy oath with her signature that Kane told a grand jury she never signed.

Authorities say Kane and other top aides were compelled to sign the secrecy oath and three others just like it that applied to other grand jury panels to participate in a transition meeting on January 17, 2013, that concerned the office’s investigations. He says he’s not sure if Kane’s political career can survive, even if she’s exonerated. She did so to smear Frank Fina, a former chief deputy attorney general who headed the Mondesire probe, because she blamed him for leaking information about another grand jury probe of state legislators caught taking bribes.

In a statement issued to The Morning Call through a secretary at the Washington, D.C., firm where he works, Davis said he no longer represents Kane. 14 for her formal arraignment on the initial charges.

The arrest affidavit said Kane testified before a grand jury in November 2014 that she was not sworn to secrecy for the 2009 grand jury.

Kane has maintained her innocence.

“I was not sworn into the grand jury from 2009 as I could not have been since I was at home with my kids at the time”, she said, according to the arrest affidavit. Last week, the state Supreme Court placed a temporary suspension on Kane’s license to practice.

One email, Ms. Kane said, contained “a joke about a woman who was beaten by her husband and the punch line is that she should just shut up”.

“And what does this mean to the public?”

Kane has consistently denied all charges and has classified the attack against her as retaliation for her efforts to expose illicit behavior amidst Republican officials in Pennsylvania.

Prosecutors have filed another perjury charge against Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen Kane.