Pennsylvania AG Kathleen Kane faces new perjury charge for alleged denial of secrecy obligation
Kathleen Kane’s booking photo. Photo from the Montgomery County District Attorney.
The legal troubles are building for Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen Kane.
Kane was charged in August with lying about a grand jury leak and suspended from law practice in September. Now she is facing new charges stemming from her claim that she had no secrecy obligation with regard to a grand jury investigating an NAACP leader before she took office, report the Legal Intelligencer (sub. req.), Pennlive, the Morning Call and the Times-Tribune.
Kane was charged on Thursday with perjury, false swearing and obstruction based on a signed “secrecy oath,” found in a search of her offices in which she agreed to keep the grand jury information secret. Kane had signed the oath in January 2013 on her second day in office, according to Montgomery County District Attorney Risa Vetri Ferman.
Kane had testified to a grand jury in November 2014 that she had no secrecy obligation, according to Ferman.
