Montgomery County Jury Convicts Attorney General

The courthouse in Montgomery County has been pretty busy lately.  With the Cosby trial and the prosecution of Attorney General Kathleen Kane, they need a break.  Well, as of yesterday, there will be one less important matter on the court's plate.  A jury convicted Attorney General Kathleen Kane of all charges.

Four years after Kane's election in a landslide as the first Democrat and first woman elected attorney general, a jury of six men and six women found her guilty of all charges: two counts of perjury and seven misdemeanor counts of abusing the powers of her office.  Montgomery County District Attorney Kevin R. Steele persuaded jurors that Kane orchestrated the illegal leak of secret grand jury documents to plant a June 2014 story critical of her nemesis, former state prosecutor Frank Fina. Kane then lied about her actions under oath, the jury found.  Kane, 50, who rose from a hardscrabble upbringing in Scranton to win a statewide post in her first bid for office, was stoic as the verdict was read. Her twin sister, Ellen Granahan, a prosecutor on her staff, was with her in court.

See more details from this article at Philly.com.  This is a big win for our friends at the Montgomery County DA's office.