Kathleen Kane Was an
Honorary Clinton
All Along. By Jim Geraghty, Morning Jolt
Bill Clinton, endorsing Kathleen Kane in 2012: “The first elected office
I ever held was Attorney-General, so it’s a job I know something about. The
Attorney General can have an enormous positive impact, so it’s important to
elect someone who understands how to use the office and the legal system to
protect and advance the lives of Pennsylvanians. Kathleen Kane would make a
great Attorney General. She’s smart and tough. She’s prosecuted more than 3000
cases, protected senior citizens, and put child molesters and violent criminals
behind bars,” remarked President Clinton. “Kathleen is a great Democrat who
understands that an Attorney General’s job is to stand up for consumers and
people. I’m proud to endorse my friend Kathleen Kane and I hope she’ll become
the first woman ever elected Attorney General by the people of Pennsylvania.”
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.
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