Pennsylvania’s Top Prosecutor Faces Criminal Arraignment

Pennsylvania’s top prosecutor is taking on the new role of criminal defendant

In this Feb. 13, 2015, file photo, Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen G. Kane speaks during a news conference in Scranton, Pa. Kane, the first woman and first Democrat elected attorney general in Pennsylvania, was charged Thursday, Aug. 6, 2015, with perjury, obstruction, abuse of office, conspiracy and false swearing. Butch Comegys/The Times Tribune via AP

NORRISTOWN, Pa.—Pennsylvania’s top prosecutor is taking on the new role of criminal defendant.

Attorney General Kathleen Kane, who faces charges including a felony count of perjury, is to be arraigned Saturday afternoon in suburban Philadelphia on closed-circuit TV. The district judge will be nearly 10 miles away.

Kane is accused of leaking secret grand jury information through an operative to a newspaper reporter as payback for a former state prosecutor she thought made her look bad, and then lying about her actions under oath.

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