Kathleen Kane

Former state AG sent to treatment after probation violation

By MICHAEL RUBINKAMMay 23, 2022 GMT

NORRISTOWN, Pa. (AP) — Pennsylvania’s former top law enforcement officer, who served jail time for leaking secret investigative files and lying about it, admitted Monday that she violated her probation when she was arrested for drunken driving in March.

Former state AG back in jail for alleged probation violation

April 29, 2022 GMT

NORRISTOWN, Pa. (AP) — A former Pennsylvania attorney general who served jail time for leaking grand jury material and lying about it was taken into custody Friday on an alleged probation violation, more than a month after she was charged with drunken driving, officials said.

Former state AG charged with drunken driving after crash

By MICHAEL RUBINKAMMarch 17, 2022 GMT

A former Pennsylvania attorney general who served eight months in jail for leaking grand jury material and lying about it was charged Thursday with drunken driving after a weekend crash in Scranton.

Former state attorney general Kane faces Scranton DUI charge

March 14, 2022 GMT

SCRANTON, Pa. (AP) — Pennsylvania's former top state prosecutor was arrested over the weekend and is expected to be formally charged with driving under the influence, Scranton police said Monday.

Kathleen Kane, a Democrat who resigned as attorney general after being convicted of perjury in 2016, was involved in a two-vehicle crash in the city at about 6:30 p.m.

Kane, once Pennsylvania attorney general, released from jail

July 31, 2019 GMT

EAGLEVILLE, Pa. (AP) — A former Pennsylvania attorney general who was convicted of leaking grand jury material and lying about it is out of jail, walking free Wednesday after serving eight months behind bars...

Pa. Bishops Made The Right Call On Transparency

The Editorial BoardMay 24, 2018 GMT

Scranton Bishop Joseph Bambera and bishops of five other Catholic dioceses in Pennsylvania will not attempt to block the impending public release of a statewide grand jury’s report on an investigation into sexual abuse among clergy and their dioceses’ handling of it.

Pennsylvania Senate plans vote this week on AG Kane removal

By MARK SCOLFOROFebruary 9, 2016 GMT

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — The top-ranking Republican in the state Senate said Monday the chamber will vote this week on whether to remove from office Attorney General Kathleen Kane, a first-term Democrat who has spent the past two years working to expose an explicit and objectionable government email ring and the past six months fighting her own criminal charges related to a grand jury leak.

Pennsylvania sues oil companies for MTBE pollution

By MARC LEVYJune 20, 2014 GMT

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Pennsylvania on Thursday sued a long list of oil companies over the groundwater pollution caused by leaks and spills of gasoline containing the additive MTBE, and also alleged that companies improperly accepted financial help from a state-run fund to clean up many other spills.