NORRISTOWN, Pa.—Pennsylvania’s attorney general is expected to address her job status within days after she was convicted of leaking secret criminal files and then lying about it.
Kathleen Kane showed little emotion as the jury convicted her late Monday of all nine counts, including two felony perjury counts.
After hearing days of testimony about petty feuds, political intrigue and “cloak and dagger” machinations, Judge Wendy Demchick-Alloy called Kane, 50, a flight risk and ordered her to surrender her passport. She also threatened to jail Kane if she retaliated against the once-trusted aides who testified against her.
In an episode that seemed more likely at a mob trial than a statehouse corruption case, Kane’s political operative described being taken to a parking garage, stripped of his phone, keys and wallet and searched for a recording device before a lunch meeting with the attorney general.
The consultant, Josh Morrow, admitted lying to the grand jury to protect Kane after they had concocted a cover story that framed her chief deputy for the leak. Morrow was granted immunity for his testimony.
