{"id":53483,"date":"2016-10-25T17:27:40","date_gmt":"2016-10-25T21:27:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=53483"},"modified":"2016-10-25T17:27:40","modified_gmt":"2016-10-25T21:27:40","slug":"penn-ag-receives-jail-term-for-what-amounted-to-whistleblowong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=53483","title":{"rendered":"Penn AG Receives Jail Term for What Amounted to Whistleblowong"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Former Pennsylvania Attorney General Gets Prison Term<\/h1>\n

Kathleen Kane sentenced to 10 to 23 months in prison for grand jury leak to damage political foe<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n

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Former Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen Kane arrives at the Montgomery County courthouse for her scheduled sentencing hearing in Norristown, Pa., on Monday. <\/span>PHOTO: <\/span>MATT ROURKE\/ASSOCIATED PRESS<\/span><\/h5>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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By KRIS MAHER
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Former Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen Kane was sentenced\u00a0Monday\u00a0to\u00a010 to 23 months in prison, in a rebuke for the state\u2019s former top prosecutor following her recent conviction for engaging in a political payback scheme.<\/p>\n

Ms. Kane, 50 years old, was convicted <\/a>in Montgomery County Court outside Philadelphia in August on nine counts, including perjury and obstruction of justice,\u00a0for leaking grand jury documents to a local newspaper in a bid to embarrass a political foe and for lying about it under oath.<\/p>\n

An attorney for Ms. Kane couldn\u2019t immediately be reached to comment.<\/p>\n

Once viewed as a rising political star in the Democratic Party in Pennsylvania, Ms. Kane resigned as attorney general a day after she was convicted. Her law license had already been suspended. She\u00a0had faced\u00a0a maximum sentence of between 12 and 24 years in prison.<\/p>\n

Before her sentencing, Ms. Kane\u2019s lawyers had asked the judge for leniency. They had argued that probation and home arrest were adequate punishment and that Ms. Kane needed to be home to care for two teenage sons.<\/p>\n

Prosecutors had sought a significant prison sentence, arguing that the facts in the case were \u201cparticularly egregious\u201d and that Ms. Kane had shown no remorse.<\/p>\n

Ms. Kane became the state\u2019s first woman and Democrat elected as attorney general in 2013. Before she became embroiled in a criminal investigation and her tenure as attorney general was cut short, many political experts once thought Ms. Kane could someday run for governor or the U.S. Senate.<\/p>\n

During her trial, Ms. Kane\u2019s former political consultant said that in 2014 she asked him to turn over grand jury information to a Philadelphia Daily News reporter about a 2009 investigation handled by a former prosecutor in the Attorney General\u2019s office to embarrass him. The consultant said Ms. Kane believed that the former prosecutor had previously planted a negative story about her.<\/p>\n

Ms. Kane has said she was a victim of an \u201cold boys\u2019 network\u201d<\/a> in Pennsylvania and that the case against her was manufactured by former state prosecutors who wanted to prevent her from releasing offensive emails that would harm their careers.<\/p>\n

Ms. Kane began releasing a trove of emails in 2014 <\/a>that has embarrassed a number of state officials and forced several to step down, including two state Supreme Court justices.<\/p>\n

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