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.
