Kathleen Kane, former Pa. attorney general, is disbarred by the feds

By Matt Miller

Four months after the state pulled her law license, former Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen Kane also has been disbarred by the feds.

The disbarment came via an order from U.S. Middle District Chief Judge Christopher C. Conner.

And Kane didn’t fight it.

Kane’s disbarment at the state and federal levels results from her 2016 conviction by a Montgomery County jury on charges that she leaked confidential grand jury information and then lied about doing so.

She began serving a 10- to 23-month prison term on that conviction this past November after the state Supreme Court refused to hear her appeal.

Four months later that same court disbarred her from practicing law in the state courts. That disbarment was by consent, which means Kane agreed to surrender her law license without a fight.

The Supreme Court ruling triggered Conner’s disbarment order. Disbarments by state courts inevitably result in identical actions in the federal courts.

As Conner noted in his order, Kane, a 53-year-old Democrat from Clark’s Summit, was given the chance to present an argument that a federal disbarment was unwarranted. She had 30 days from April 4 to make such a plea.

“The time has passed without any claim being presented,” Conner wrote.

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