What to Know
- Pennsylvania’s former top state prosecutor was arrested over the weekend and is expected to be formally charged with driving under the influence.
- Scranton police said Monday that 55-year-old Kathleen Kane was involved in a two-vehicle crash in the city at about 6:30 p.m. Saturday. Police haven't released details about the crash.
- Kane was the first Democrat and remains the only woman to have been elected as the state’s attorney general. While in office, she leaked grand jury documents about a civil rights leader and a jury found she lied to the grand jury investigating the leak. She served more than eight months.
Former Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen Kane was arrested Saturday in Scranton and will be charged with driving under the influence, the Scranton police chief said.
Kane was arrested after police responded to a two-car accident without injuries at about 6:30 p.m.
She has not yet been charged, but formal DUI charges are expected soon, Police Chief Thomas Carroll told NBC10.
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Kane is currently on probation after being convicted of perjury and other charges in 2016, after she stopped an investigation into Democratic lawmakers who were taking kickbacks from a undercover investigator posing as a lobbyist.
Kane was angry about the information being public, reported the Philadelphia Inquirer, and leaked information about another investigation to retaliate against her critics. She then lied about the leak to the grand jury, and was convicted.
