Pennsylvania AG Kathleen Kane plans news conference to respond to charges

Last week, Montgomery County District Attorney Risa Ferman announced it was her offices own investigation that found former Dunmore police chief Pat Reese illegally sorted through emails sent to and from employees of the attorney general’s office between September and December of a year ago.

Kane is expected to make a statement and answer reporters’ questions at a news conference at the state Capitol in Harrisburg on Wednesday, spokesman Chuck Ardo said.

For all that, she’s in better political shape than Kane, who was arraigned on charges over the weekend – she got a mug shot and everything – and who faces a growing chorus of voices to resign.

In this Saturday, August 8, 2015 photo provided by the Montgomery County District Attorney’s Office, Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen Kane appears in a booking mug taken in Norristown, Pa. Kane, the state?s first elected female attorney general, vows to fight perjury, obstruction and other charges for allegedly leaking secret grand jury material to embarrass rivals and then lying about it under oath.

Ferman charged Kane last Thursday for allegedly leaking secret investigative material to a newspaper and then lying about it to a grand jury. Authorities say she gave confidential information to a reporter in an attempt at payback for a former state prosecutor who she thought had made her look bad.

Reese was head of Kathleen Kane’s security detail, and often was her driver between her home and Harrisburg.

A hearing on the charge, which is considered a court violation, is scheduled for September 9. During her 2012 campaign for office, Kane accused Corbett and Fina of postponing Sandusky’s arrest to avoid angering Penn State fans prior to Corbett’s successful run for governor in 2010. “Attorney General Kane conspired with no one”.

“She is entitled to due process under our system of government and law, and she will have time to defend herself, and I think she needs to do that”, Wolf said.

The state constitution requires the attorney general to hold a law license.

Kane did not enter a plea during her five-minute arraignment Saturday in a Montgomery County courtroom and did not speak other than to respond to the judge yes or no.