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PICTURES: Kathleen Kane reports to prison
PHOTO GALLERY: Former Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen Kane is behind bars after reporting to the Montgomery County Correctional Facility to begin a sentence for leaking grand jury material and lying about it.
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Key dates in the rise and fall of Kathleen Kane
Nov. 6, 2012 — Kathleen Kane, a former Lackawanna County assistant prosecutor with little courtroom and managerial experience, is elected as Pennsylvania’s first Democratic and female attorney general. Her victory was secured mostly by promising to investigate her state prosecutors’ successful investigation and June 2012 conviction of former Penn State assistant coach Jerry Sandusky on child sex abuse charges.
Jan. 15, 2013 — Kane takes office. Her first year is parked by public successes, causing pundits and party officials to float her name for U.S. Senate.
March 26, 2014 — The Philadelphia Inquirer breaks a story detailing how Kane, upon taking office, shut down an undercover sting investigation of Democratic lawmakers taking cash bribes and other gifts from an informant posing as a Harrisburg lobbyist.
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Kane claimed she shut the probe down because it was “half-ass.” Her critics claimed she did it for political reasons. The claims ignite a public feud between her and Frank Fina, the former state prosecutor who ran the sting and helped convict Sandusky.
May 2014 — A Montgomery County judge approves a grand jury to investigate how the Philadelphia Daily News received secret information about a 2009 grand jury probe conducted by Fina, whom Kane publicly blamed for the Inquirer story published two months earlier.
June 23, 2014 — Kane releases report her Sandusky review, written by Widener University law professor and former federal prosecutor H. Geoffrey Moulton. It cleared former Attorney General Tom Corbett, then governor, of playing politics with the Sanduskly investigation but accused him and his investigators of “crucial missteps and inexplicable delays” caused by their decision to employ a secret grand jury to investigate the retired coach.
During the report’s presentation, Kane mistakenly claims Sandusky abused boys while under investigation, throwing more gasoline on her feud with Fina and others, including Corbett’s then state police Commissioner Frank Noonan.
July 29, 2014 — The Morning Call files a Right to Know request for pornographic emails rumored to have been circulated among staff at the attorney general’s office and uncovered during Moulton’s Sandusky review. Other media outlets file similar public records requests.
Sept. 25, 2014 — Kane allows reporters to review more than 1,000 porn images allegedly sent or received by only the men she was feuding with even though dozens of other lawyers, judges and law enforcement officers shared them, too.
The porn scandal eventually would drag on for two years and bring down two Supreme Court justices and tie up Kane’s own sister, Ellen Granahan, then a former state prosecuotr, who also received some of the emails.
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Aug. 24, 2015 — Perjury charges sent to Montgomery County Court against Kane after she testifies about the grand jury leak to the Daily News.
Sept. 21, 2015 — State Supreme Court votes 5-0 to suspend Kane’s law license in light of her criminal charges.
Nov. 25, 2015 — State Senate committee votes 5-2 to hold hearings on Kane’s removal from office using a rare constitutional provision.
Dec. 2, 2015 — Kane hires a special prosecutor for about $2 million to review more than 1 million porn emails to determine whether any laws were broken by senders or receivers.
Jan. 26, 2016 — State House committee starts separate process that could lead to Kane’s impeachment.
Feb. 5, 2016 — Supreme Court declines to reinstate Kane’s law license.
Feb. 10, 2016 — Senate votes along party lines to not oust Kane from her elected position. House never holds impeachment hearings.
Former state Attorney General Kathleen Kane leaves court in handcuffs after her Oct. 24, 2016, sentencing at the Montgomery County Courthouse in Norristown. (Dan Gleiter/PennLive.com via AP, Pool)
Aug. 15, 2016 — A Montgomery County jury, after a seven-day trial, finds Kane guilty of perjury for lying about leaking the grand jury material to embarras Fina, her rival.
Aug. 17, 2015 — Kane resigns and vows to appeal her conviction.
Oct. 26, 2016 — Kane leaves the courthouse in handcuffs after she is sentenced and then is released on $75,000 bail pending appeal.
Monday — Supreme Court denies Kane’s last appeal.
Thursday — Kane reports to county prison to serve a 10- to 23-month sentence.