Aide: Attorney General Kane doesn’t doubt she faces charges

In an unrelated public appearance Wednesday in Philadelphia, Kane maintained her innocence.

Kane spokesman Chuck Ardo tells Action News “the only person who knows what’s going on with charges is Risa Ferman and the Montgomery County D.A.’s office”.

She has said she has no plans to resign if charged.

Criminal charges would place Kane in the position of being the state’s chief law enforcement officer and a defendant.

Kane leaked the info despite being warned ahead of time by staffers that release of the 2009 grand jury information was probably illegal and violated grand jury rules, the grand jury found.

“She is taking the position she didn’t do anything wrong”, Minora said.

Montgomery County District Attorney Risa Vetri Ferman has been investigating the Scranton native since April for perjury and other offenses related to a grand jury investigation of her.

Ferman is a Republican running for judge in November.

Former First Assistant Attorney General Adrian King testified before the grand jury that Kane asked him to deliver a package to her former campaign manager, Josh Morrow, in Philadelphia in April, 2014. She has said she intends to run for re-election next year.

Kane appeared in a crowded City Hall courtroom in Philadelphia in March when the court heard arguments on that challenge, which boiled down to whether Judge Carpenter had the legal authority to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate the attorney general.

In 1995, Attorney General Ernie Preate Jr., a Republican, resigned during his second term after pleading guiltly to corruption charges. He served 11 months in prison.

Insiders speculated that the information had been leaked in an attempt to embarrass Frank Fina, a prosecutor who worked on the case.

According to Morrow’s testimony, that package contained the memo regarding the 2009 grand jury investigation obtained by the Philadelphia Daily News. Mondesire was not charged.

Kane used her political consultant, Joshua Morrow, to deliver documents to Daily News reporter Chris Brennan, the grand jury found.

After the grand jury’s determination that Kane’s testimony “was not an honest account of the events” and was designed “to cover up activities undertaken at her direction to unlawfully release documents subject to grand jury secrecy”, Montgomery County Common Pleas Court Judge William Carpenter referred the case to Ferman’s office. Fina, who works for the Philadelphia district attorney, has denied doing so.

“I have no way of knowing whether it’s true”, he said of the report.

“Her response to me was don’t worry about it”, Beemer testified. “We have more important things to do”.