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Ex-Attorney General Kane set for release from jail Wednesday

A former Pennsylvania attorney general will be released from a county jail after serving about eight months for leaking grand jury material and lying about it, the warden said Tuesday.

Montgomery County Correctional Facility Warden Julio Algarin said Kathleen Kane shaved about two months off her minimum sentence by serving her time without any problems. She is scheduled for release early Wednesday.

Kane, 53, was sentenced in 2016 to 10-to-23 months for perjury, obstruction and other counts. After appeals failed, she turned herself in to the jail in the Philadelphia suburb of Eagleville at the end of November.

Her lawyer, Steve Fairlie, said Tuesday that Kane was treated like anyone else in terms of parole.

Kane, a native of Scranton, became the first Democrat and first woman to be elected the state’s top prosecutor in 2012.

A special prosecutor was named to investigate Kane after former prosecutors with the attorney general’s office reported that secret grand jury material had been leaked to a newspaper. She resigned after her 2016 conviction.

The Disciplinary Board of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania issued a disbarment order against her in March.

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