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<\/p>\nA jury on Monday convicted Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen Kane <\/span>of all counts in her politically charged perjury trial stemming from allegations that she leaked grand jury information, a prosecutor\u2019s spokeswoman said.<\/p>\n The jurors deliberated for little more than five hours before deciding thatKane<\/span>, a Democrat, had leaked the information to a reporter in a bid to embarrass a rival prosecutor.<\/p>\n Kane<\/span>\u2019s conviction in the case that has riveted Pennsylvania for a year was confirmed by Kate Delano, spokeswoman for Montgomery County District Attorney Kevin Steele.<\/p>\n Governor Tom Wolf called on Kane <\/span>to resign immediately. \u201cI implore Attorney General Kane <\/span>to do what is right: put the commonwealth\u2019s residents first and step down from office,\u201d the Democrat said in a statement.<\/p>\n Kane <\/span>was alleged to have attempted to gain revenge against former prosecutor Frank Fina by leaking grand jury information to a reporter to embarrass him and then lied about it.<\/p>\n Kane <\/span>faces up to seven years in prison.<\/p>\n During the trial in Norristown, outside Philadelphia, Kane<\/span>\u2019s lawyers argued that she intended to make a legal leak of information to the press and did not know her aides would include grand jury material.<\/p>\n They contended she made \u201chonest mistakes\u201d when testifying to the grand jury, but did not intentionally lie. Kane <\/span>did not testify in her own defense.<\/p>\n (Writing by Ian Simpson in Washington; Editing by Peter Cooney)<\/p>\n CORRECTION:<\/strong> An earlier photo depicted Ellen Granahan Goffer and not her identical twin sister, Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen Kane.<\/em><\/p>\n ___ She was accused of leaking grand jury information to a reporter. REUTERS ASSOCIATED PRESS A jury on Monday convicted Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen Kane of all counts in her politically charged perjury trial stemming from allegations that she leaked grand … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46342\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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