Clinton protege goes on trial; perjury & obstruction

[Legion Troll]

Pennsylvania’s attorney general goes on trial Monday in a perjury and obstruction case.

Kathleen Kane remains on the job even though she lost her law license over her felony arrest.

An ethics board accused her of “egregious conduct” amid criminal charges she leaked grand jury material to a newspaper to embarrass enemies and then lied about it under oath.

The state Supreme Court voted to strip Kane of the law license. Dozens of people in her office were also fired or disciplined.

Kane, 50, has said she won’t give up. She was the first woman and Democrat elected to the job.

“You can arrest me two times, you can arrest me 10 times. I’m sure this isn’t the end of the game,” Kane said after prosecutors added more charges to the case.



https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/term-about-over-pennsylvanias-top-prosecutor-goes-on-trial/2016/08/07/47ecf25a-5c99-11e6-84c1-6d27287896b5_story.html

 

[Leonthecat]

I predict that a slimy Limey will soon be along to tell us she is hot.

 

[Legion Troll]

I predict that a slimy Limey will soon be along to tell us she is hot.

Perhaps so.

But now that you have pre-shamed him...perhaps not.

 

[Legion]

A political consultant close to Kathleen Kane testified Thursday that the attorney general was deeply involved in orchestrating an illegal grand jury leak and that the two of them plotted a cover up together, conspiring to pin the leak on an estranged former top aide.

"We had conspired to create this story that wasn't true," Joshua Morrow, a political consultant to Kane, said Thursday as he took the witness stand in Kane's perjury trial.

"Kathleen and I came up with a story that she was going to testify to and I was going to testify to."

Morrow said the two met in August 2014 to get their stories straight before they had to testify before a grand jury investigating an illegal leak of secret documents from the Attorney General's Office. They decided to blame it on Adrian King, Kane's former top deputy. Morrow said they decided they would both testify that Kane never saw the leaked documents that Morrow gave to a reporter.

Morrow, who has been granted immunity in exchange for his cooperation with prosecutors, admitted from the witness stand that his story has changed and evolved over time.


"To protect Kathleen," he said, he stuck with the initial story through his early appearances before a grand jury. He changed the tale a bit, he said, when "I realized the lie was starting to unravel."

Last month, he said, he went to meet with detectives again, came clean, and provided text messages he had exchanged with Kane.


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