JOSHUA MORROW testified that he had been taken to a parking garage and searched for a recording device. His wallet, phone and keys were taken away. Mr Morrow, a political consultant, was patted down by the security detail of Kathleen Kane, the attorney-general of Pennsylvania, before they met for lunch. Over the meal, they hatched a plot to deny illegally leaking secret documents from a grand-jury proceeding. Mr Morrow’s tale was one of many such details revealed during Ms Kane’s trial. Her tenure in office, which started with such promise, ended in a conviction on nine charges, including perjury and conspiracy, on August 15th. She resigned a day later.
Ms Kane was elected in a landslide in 2012. Not only was she the first woman to become the state’s attorney-general; she was the first Democrat to win since the job became an elected position in 1980. She had a good start. During her first year she earned praise for calling Pennsylvania’s ban, then in force, on same-sex marriage “wholly unconstitutional” and refusing to defend the state in a federal lawsuit against it. She also took a stand in favour of gun control, preventing...Continue reading
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