Kathleen Kane

Quick Facts

Full Name	Kathleen Kane
Occupation	Lawyer
Date Of Birth	Jun 14, 1966(1966-06-14)
Age	58
Birthplace	Scranton
Country	United States
Birth City	Pennsylvania
Horoscope	Gemini

Kathleen Kane Biography

Kathleen Kane is one of the most popular and richest Lawyer who was born on June 14, 1966 in Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States. Kathleen Granahan Kane (born Kathleen Margaret Granahan (born Kathleen Margaret Granahan; died June 14 June, 1966) is an American lawyer and politician who was the Attorney General for 48th Pennsylvania from 2013 until her resignation in 2016. following her conviction on perjury as well as obstruction of justice related charges related to illegal activities when she was Attorney General. The first woman and the first Democrat ever elected to the office.

The 1st of October 2013, prosecutors filed another perjury charge against Kane. This charge is related to the alleged breach of the secrecy oath Kane took in January 2013 in connection with the grand jury’s leaks.

Kane appointed former federal prosecutor H. Geoffrey Moulton Jr. to investigate Governor Tom Corbett’s handling of the Penn State child sex abuse scandal (an investigation which showed that no wrongdoing by Corbett took place), and brought criminal charges against former turnpike officials (and then dealt plea bargains with the accused parties, which resulted in none of the accused serving any jail time). Kane made national headlines in July 2013, when she refused to defend Pennsylvania’s gay marriage prohibition in court.

Kane lived in Clarks Summit, Pennsylvania, with her husband Chris Kane, an executive and co-owner in his family’s trucking and warehouse company. The couple have two sons. She filed for divorce in Family Court in Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania, on December 26, 2014. In October 2014, Kane said she was suffering from a concussion she sustained in a car crash.

Kane has announced her candidacy to be Pennsylvania Attorney General for the 2012 elections. She was endorsed by U.S. President Bill Clinton as well as The Philadelphia Inquirer during the Democratic primary. Her primary opponent who was a the former U.S. Representative Patrick Murphy was supported from former Pennsylvania governor Ed Rendell and the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Kane defeated Murphy 53% to 47%. The general elections were won by Kane was able to win in the general election by 14.5 percent , beating Cumberland County district attorney David Freed who was unopposed at the Republican primary. This victory was what made Kane one of the few women to be elected the State Attorney General of Pennsylvania and also the first Democrat elected to the office after it was no longer an appointed post in the year 1980. Kane got more votes than either President Obama as well as Senator Casey did in Pennsylvania in the 2012 elections Her total of votes was at the time the fourth-highest among politicians in Pennsylvania elections.

Kathleen Kane Net Worth

Kathleen Kane is one of the richest Lawyer from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Kathleen Kane 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Kane was born Kathleen Margaret Granahan, Kane was raised in the west of Scranton, Pennsylvania, where she went to West Scranton High School. Kane earned the Bachelor of Science diploma in International Studies at Scranton’s University of Scranton in 1988 as well as a J.D. at Temple University Law School in 1993.

Kane is an attorney with Post & Schell P.C. is an Philadelphia law firm prior to 1995, and was in charge of civil cases. Between 1995 and 2007 she was the assistant district attorney in Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania, where she handled hundreds of sexual abuse, elder violence as well as murder, assault public corruption, rape in addition to fraud trials. In 2007 Kane was employed by an attorney firm that was privately owned situated in Scranton, Pennsylvania, and was appointed to the Obama campaign in 2008. Hillary Clinton presidential campaign.

After the Inquirer story, Kane orchestrated a leak of confidential grand jury information about an investigation once run by Fina, one that she believed showed he had failed to aggressively pursue corruption allegations against the onetime head of the Philadelphia NAACP. In searching for information to discredit Fina, she discovered a trove of emails containing pornography and other offensive content that were exchanged among state prosecutors, defense lawyers, and judges – including two former Supreme Court justices. Porngate, as it came to be called, led to the retirements or resignations of more than a half-dozen high-profile public officials, including onetime Supreme Court Justices Seamus P. McCaffery and J. Michael Eakin. Kane said repeatedly that she believed her criminal case was “corruptly manufactured” by a club of “good ol’ boys” bent on preventing her from making those emails public – although many of them were eventually released.

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Who is Kathleen Kane Dating?

According to our records, Kathleen Kane married to Chris Kane. As of December 1, 2023, Kathleen Kane’s is not dating anyone.

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On March 17, 2014, Kane announced that she had shut down a corruption investigation begun under her predecessor, saying that “the undercover investigation was poorly managed and badly executed, and relied on an undercover operative whose credibility had been compromised.” Kane also asserted she had documentation to support her assertion that racism marred the sting. The investigation was following up on reports of corruption among current Philadelphia politicians, all of the suspects belonged to the Democratic Party. In response, the Committee of Seventy called on the state legislature to designate an independent counsel to investigate the closing of the case. Local prosecutors in Philadelphia picked up the case, and secured a number of guilty pleas as well as grand jury indictments.

Facts & Trivia

Kathleen Ranked on the list of most popular Lawyer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Kathleen Kane celebrates birthday on June 14 of every year.

On January 21, 2015, it was made public that the grand jury recommended criminal charges related to these leaks against Kane for “perjury, false swearing, official oppression and obstruction of law.”

What is Kathleen Kane doing now?

Kane is on probation until October 2025. Kane, 55, has been jailed at Montgomery County Correctional Facility outside Philadelphia since April 29. Support Local Journalism and help us continue covering the stories that matter to you and your community.

Is Kathleen Kane still married?

Kathleen Kane
Spouse| Divorced
Children| 2
Education| University of Scranton (BS) Temple University (JD)

Who is Deputy Attorney General of PA?

Michelle Henry , a 20-year veteran prosecutor, is First Deputy Attorney General, responsible for overseeing all legal, criminal and civil matters in the Office of Attorney General.

Is Kathleen Kane a republican or Democrat?

Democratic Party

Where is Kathleen Kane from?

HARRISBURG — Former Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen Kane was arrested Saturday in her hometown of Scranton for driving under the influence of alcohol, police there said Monday. Kane, 55, was released on “general impairment DUI charges” following a two-car crash, Scranton Police Chief Thomas Carroll said.