1. Jane Clare Orie was born on September 18,1961 and is an American politician, attorney, and convicted felon who served in both Houses of the Pennsylvania General Assembly.
14 Facts About Jane Orie
1. 2.
Jane Orie resigned from the State Senate in May 2012, following her conviction on 14 counts of forgery, conflict of interest and theft of services, and served the minimum two-and-a half years of a two-and-a-half to ten-year prison sentence.
3.
Jane Orie was disbarred by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court on December 10,2014.
4.
Jane Orie was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to a western Pennsylvania political family.
5.
Jane Orie's sister Joan Orie Melvin was a judge on the Superior Court of Pennsylvania and is suspended from her position as a Justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.
6.
Jane Orie served as an assistant district attorney in Allegheny County and later as a deputy state attorney general.
7.
In 1996, Jane Orie ran for the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for the 28th House District after incumbent representative Elaine Farmer dropped off the ballot to fight bone marrow cancer.
8.
Jane Orie won that November and won re-election in 1998 and 2000.
9.
Jane Orie tried to tie Rooney to this unpopular issue, even running a television advertisement depicting the implosion of Three Rivers Stadium.
10.
In March 2012, Jane Orie was convicted of 14 counts of forgery, conflict of interest and theft of services, which included five felonies.
11.
Accordingly, Jane Orie resigned from the State Senate on May 21,2012.
12.
On June 5,2012, Jane Orie was sentenced to two-and-a-half to ten years in prison.
13.
Jane Orie was incarcerated at the Cambridge Springs State Correctional Institution in Crawford County, where she was Inmate Number OS9360.
14.
On February 9,2014, Jane Orie was released from prison, after serving the minimum sentence of two-and-a-half years.