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Former Pennsylvania Attorney General Kane reports to prison
EAGLEVILLE, Pa. – Former Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen Kane is behind bars after reporting to a suburban Philadelphia county jail to begin a sentence for leaking grand jury material and lying about it.
Kane showed up at the Montgomery County Correctional Facility just before 8 a.m. Thursday to begin a 10- to 23-month term for perjury, obstruction and other counts.
The 52-year-old Democrat from Scranton had once been considered a rising political star in the state, but resigned after her 2016 conviction.
The state Supreme Court on Nov. 26 declined to take up her appeal, leading a county judge to revoke her bail.
A county judge appointed a special prosecutor to investigate Kane after former prosecutors with the attorney general’s office alerted him that secret grand jury material had been leaked to a newspaper.
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