PITTSBURGH TRIBUNE: As an assistant Lackawanna County prosecutor, Kathleen Kane testified at the 1999 trial of Judge Francis Eagen, charged with taking bribes. He had sought information about the investigation, she said, and she told him that grand juries operate in secret and their “strict rules” cannot be violated…
The panel found Eagen guilty of obstruction.
Fifteen years later, a statewide grand jury in Montgomery County is investigating whether Kane, 48, of Clarks Summit, now state attorney general, leaked a grand jury’s information to a Philadelphia newspaper. If Judge William Carpenter determines she did and finds her in contempt of court, Kane could be sentenced to six months in prison… (more)
