Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen Kane says she won’t resign despite being charged with leaking grand jury information and perjury, but at least two Lancaster County political leaders think she should. Preserving public trust in the Commonwealth’s top law enforcement officer is vital, and as such, I support any measures the Montgomery County district attorney sees fit to bring justice to this matter.

Ronald D. Castille, the former chief justice of the Supreme Court, who authorized the grand-jury investigation that led to the charges, called for his former colleagues to suspend Kane’s law license or for the Assembly to impeach her.

“I intend to defend myself vigorously against these charges”, Kane continued. Kane, through her office has said she will not step down and will fight the charges.

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As she contemplates the eight charges she faces, Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen Kane has this much consolation: At least she has company.

The alleged leaks led to the appointment of a special prosecutor and a grand jury investigation that resulted in the charges announced Thursday.

Ferman said that similar to Kane, Reese has not yet been arrested, but that “arrangements would be made” for his surrender.

The fees towards her allege she struck again towards them by leaking info to the Philadelphia Day by day Information final yr that made it look as in the event that they botched a 2009 probe into whether or not a Philadelphia NAACP official misused state job-training grants. Kane spokesman Chuck Ardo said Thursday, August 6, 2015, that Kane i… Ferman said he had searched for subpoenas and other sensitive information involving the grand jury that was investigating his boss.

In a 42-page criminal complaint filed Thursday against Ms. Kane, Montgomery County District Attorney Risa Ferman detailed how Kane launched a “war” against the man she believed had hurt her reputation, orchestrating a clandestine attack without regard to the consequences.

Suspecting a former prosecutor was the source for a critical March 2014 article in the Philadelphia Inquirer, Kane ordered her staff to dig into one of his old cases and allegedly leaked secret documents to a reporter in an attempt at payback. No charges were filed in that case today, which Ms. Ferman says remains under investigation.

Ms. Kane is charged with perjury, obstructing administration of law, official oppression criminal conspiracy and false swearing. Kane then engaged in a cover-up by repeatedly lying to the grand jury while under oath.

Through several interviews investigators learned that Reese not only acted as Kane’s driver but was also a considered a personal confidant of the embattled attorney general.

Kane has acknowledged giving information to the Daily News but denied it was bound by secrecy laws. She also contended the prosecutor was fired over his job performance, not in revenge.

Ms. Kane is alleged to have leaked grand jury material to discredit a foe: onetime state prosecutor Frank Fina, whom she supposedly blamed for media accounts suggesting that she had shut down an investigation of fellow Democrats.

If convicted of the charges, she would be forced to leave office. Cohen, who still lives in Harrisburg working as a partner at a private law firm, maintains the longer Kane’s legal proceedings drag on, the more uncomfortable the attorney general’s office may get. They cheered her for refusing to defend Pennsylvania’s ban on recognizing homosexual marriage and rejecting then-Gov.