Former Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen Kane is due to be sentenced on Monday for leaking grand jury information to embarrass a rival and then lying about it to investigators.<\/p>\n
Kane, 50, the first woman and first Democrat elected attorney general, faces a maximum prison sentence of 24 years but state guidelines suggest she could get a significantly shorter sentence. In court papers she asked to be sentenced to house arrest to allow her to care for two minor children.<\/p>\n
Kane was convicted by a jury in Montgomery County Court of Common Pleas in August and resigned two days later.<\/p>\n
District Attorney Kevin Steele, who prosecuted the case, opposed Kane’s request for house arrest, saying it was inappropriate for someone facing a state prison sentence and suggesting that Kane’s ex-husband could care for the children.<\/p>\n
Steele filed a memorandum last week opposing Kane’s request for leniency and asking for “consecutive” sentences of an unspecified length.<\/p>\n
Judge Wendy Demchick-Alloy is not bound by the sentencing guidelines.<\/p>\n
Kane’s lawyer, Marc Steinberg, declined to comment ahead of Monday’s hearing.<\/p>\n
Kane was convicted of leaking confidential grand jury information in 2013 to a reporter for the Philadelphia Daily News to retaliate against a former state prosecutor, Frank Fina. She believed Fina had told the Philadelphia Inquirer about her decision to drop prosecution of a case Fina developed against six black Democratic legislators in Philadelphia.<\/p>\n
Kane is the second Pennsylvania attorney general in the past quarter-century to be convicted of crimes committed in office. In 1995, Attorney General Ernie Preate pleaded guilty to mail fraud and served a prison sentence.<\/p>\n
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Source: Reuters<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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