Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen Kane was convicted Monday of perjury, obstruction and other crimes after squandering her once bright political future on an illegal vendetta against an enemy.If you regard prosecutors as being part of law enforcement, then the chief law enforcement official in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, who may still be on the job for the next three months, is a convicted criminal. And two of her deputies dodged prosecution only by testifying under grants of immunity.
Four years after Ms. Kane’s election in a landslide as the first Democrat and first woman elected attorney general, a jury of six men and six women found her guilty of all charges: two counts of perjury and seven misdemeanor counts of abusing the powers of her office.
She does not have to resign as Pennsylvania’s top law enforcement official — at least not immediately. The state constitution says public officials convicted of certain offenses, including perjury and other “infamous crimes,” must step down. Over the years, however, court decisions have allowed officials to remain in office until sentencing.
Which makes the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania's Attorney General's Office sound more like a mob operation than an office for upholding law and order.
There's one really dirty house that needs a full-scale cleanup.
UPDATE: She quit.
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