Prosecutor: Pennsylvania attorney general had sought revenge
(AP) — A blind desire for revenge led Pennsylvania's attorney general to leak secret criminal files to the press to embarrass a rival and then lie about it to a grand jury, prosecutors said as Kathleen Kane's perjury and obstruction trial opened Tuesday.
Kane, 50, was once a rising star in the state's Democratic party, using her then-husband's trucking fortune to run for statewide office after stints as a Scranton prosecutor and stay-at-home mother.
The feud nonetheless sizzled, and she suspected him of planting a news article a year later that faulted her for not charging anyone in a statehouse bribery sting.
Kane, out for revenge, gathered documents from a Fina-led grand jury case that had likewise been dropped, prosecutors said.
The defense told jurors in opening statements that Kane wouldn't have risked her career over a feud with Fina, a prosecutor who landed a job in Philadelphia.