1. Kathleen Margaret Kane was born on June 14,1966 and is an American former politician and lawyer who served as the attorney general of Pennsylvania from 2013 until her resignation in 2016, following her conviction for perjury, obstruction of justice, and related charges for illegal activities while she was attorney general.
Kathleen Kane was the first woman and first Democrat ever elected to the position.
Four months after her imprisonment was sanctioned, Kathleen Kane was disbarred by the Supreme Court.
On July 31,2019, Kathleen Kane was released from Montgomery County Prison.
Kathleen Kane received a Bachelor of Science degree in international studies from the University of Scranton in 1988 and JD from Temple University Law School in 1993.
In 2007, Kathleen Kane worked for a private law firm in Scranton, Pennsylvania, and took a position with the 2008 Hillary Clinton presidential campaign.
Kathleen Kane announced her candidacy for Pennsylvania Attorney General in the 2012 election.
Kathleen Kane received endorsements from US President Bill Clinton and The Philadelphia Inquirer during the Democratic primary.
Kathleen Kane received more votes than President Obama or Senator Casey did in Pennsylvania during the 2012 elections; her total number of votes was then the fourth highest of any politician in Pennsylvania electoral history.
Kathleen Kane made national headlines in July 2013, when she refused to defend Pennsylvania's gay marriage prohibition in court.
Kathleen Kane was mentioned as a potential Democratic candidate for the 2016 US Senate election against Republican incumbent Pat Toomey.
However, Kathleen Kane declined to run, instead announcing that she would seek a second term as attorney general in 2016.
Kathleen Kane later announced that she would not run for re-election.
Kathleen Kane believed former state prosecutor Frank Fina was behind a March 2014 story in the Inquirer that disclosed that she had secretly shut down a sting investigation that had recorded Philadelphia Democrats accepting cash, money orders, or gifts from an undercover operative.
Fina, for many years the head of corruption cases for the Attorney General's Office, launched the sting before Kathleen Kane took office in 2013.
However, Kathleen Kane denied the charges and announced that she would not resign.
Subsequently, Kane appointed former Montgomery County District Attorney and County Commissioner Bruce L Castor, Jr.
In continuing as attorney general with a suspended license, Kathleen Kane delegated legal responsibilities to her top advisers.
On November 1,2015, Kathleen Kane announced a team of special prosecutors to lead the 'Porngate' investigation at the National Constitution Center.
State Solicitor General Bruce Castor, Kathleen Kane's second-in-command, became acting Attorney General once her resignation took effect.
Four months after her imprisonment was sanctioned, Kathleen Kane was disbarred by the supreme court.
Kathleen Kane lived in Clarks Summit, Pennsylvania, with her husband Chris Kathleen Kane, an executive and co-owner in his family's trucking and warehouse company.
Kathleen Kane filed for divorce in family court in Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania, on December 26,2014.
In October 2014, Kathleen Kane said she was suffering from a concussion she sustained in a car crash.
Kathleen Kane failed a field sobriety test and refused to take a breathalyzer test.
Kathleen Kane then checked herself into addiction recovery center for 45 days, after which she was incarcerated since the DUI represented a violation of her probation conditions.