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Pennsylvania attorney general gets new perjury charge after secrecy oath found
Source: Associated Press
Pennsylvania attorney general gets new perjury charge after secrecy oath found
Associated Press in Harrisburg
Thursday 1 October 2015 18.14 BST
Prosecutors have added a new perjury count and other criminal charges against Pennsylvania’s attorney general, saying they found a signed document that contradicts her claims she never agreed to maintain secrecy of a grand jury investigation in 2009, before she took office.
The Montgomery County district attorney charged Kathleen Kane with felony perjury and two misdemeanors – false swearing and obstruction – based on a secrecy oath she signed shortly after taking office in early 2013.
Kane, the first woman and first Democrat elected attorney general in Pennsylvania, was previously charged with perjury, conspiracy and other offenses. Prosecutors said she leaked secret grand jury information about a 2009 investigation to a newspaper and then lied about it.
An affidavit filed by a county detective said Kane has repeatedly said she did not swear to keep secret the 2009 grand jury information about a former head of the NAACP in Philadelphia. But the district attorney’s office said her signed oath was recovered during a search of her Harrisburg offices on 17 September, contradicting her claims that no such document existed.
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Associated Press in Harrisburg
Thursday 1 October 2015 18.14 BST
Prosecutors have added a new perjury count and other criminal charges against Pennsylvania’s attorney general, saying they found a signed document that contradicts her claims she never agreed to maintain secrecy of a grand jury investigation in 2009, before she took office.
The Montgomery County district attorney charged Kathleen Kane with felony perjury and two misdemeanors – false swearing and obstruction – based on a secrecy oath she signed shortly after taking office in early 2013.
Kane, the first woman and first Democrat elected attorney general in Pennsylvania, was previously charged with perjury, conspiracy and other offenses. Prosecutors said she leaked secret grand jury information about a 2009 investigation to a newspaper and then lied about it.
An affidavit filed by a county detective said Kane has repeatedly said she did not swear to keep secret the 2009 grand jury information about a former head of the NAACP in Philadelphia. But the district attorney’s office said her signed oath was recovered during a search of her Harrisburg offices on 17 September, contradicting her claims that no such document existed.
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Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/oct/01/pennsylvania-attorney-general-kathleen-kane-new-perjury-charge
