NEW YORK TIMES: The brief, unlikely political career of Kathleen G. Kane, Pennsylvania’s brightest rising star when she was elected attorney general less than four years ago, came to a humiliating close on Monday when a judge sentenced her to 10 to 23 months in prison for her conviction on charges of perjury and abuse of her office.
Ms. Kane, 50, rose to power as a Democratic outsider with no political experience, vowing to shake to its foundations the state’s male-dominated, corruption-prone political establishment that she mocked as “the Harrisburg old boys.” At times she succeeded, forcing the ouster of State Supreme Court justices, prosecuting government officials and clashing repeatedly with one of her predecessors, Tom Corbett, a Republican who had become governor.
But she soon created a scandal of her own, illegally leaking grand jury records in an attempt to discredit a critic and then lying about it to a different grand jury. In August, a Common Pleas Court jury here found her guilty of two felony perjury charges and seven misdemeanor counts, forcing her to resign from office… (more)
EDITOR: This was a premeditated political assassination of a duly elected Pennsylvania attorney general by her political opponents and media stooges and collaborators to prevent Kane from investigating past abuses of the public trust. The charge of leaking grand jury information was petty, something common and hardly ever investigated, let alone prosecuted. Inexperienced, she naively fell into their trap by trying to cover up. The sentencing is outrageous. Her case simply ended up in the wrong country, and this was likely by design.
