Former Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen Kane is beginning a prison sentence for leaking grand jury material and lying about it.
Kane showed up at the Montgomery County Correctional Facility just before 8 am Thursday to begin a 10- to 23-month term for perjury, obstruction and other counts.
The Democrat, 52, from Scranton had once been considered a rising political star in the state, but resigned after her 2016 conviction.
The state Supreme Court on November 26 declined to take up her appeal, leading a county judge to revoke her bail.
A booking photo of Kathleen Kane (above) provided by Montgomery County Correctional Facility
A county judge appointed a special prosecutor to investigate Kane after former prosecutors with the attorney general's office alerted him that secret grand jury material had been leaked to a newspaper.
Kane asked the high court to hear her case earlier this year, after the state Superior Court affirmed her conviction for perjury and for leaking grand jury information to hurt a rival.
She had argued among other things that a special prosecutor who first built the case against her lacked legal authority.
The justices, in their unanimous decision, did not provide an explanation for their denial.
Judge Wendy Demchick-Alloy ordered Kane to report to the Montgomery County Correctional Facility
'Given that the rationale for (the) defendant remaining at liberty pending appeal has expired, post-sentence bail is revoked'.
Montgomery County district attorney’s office formally requested the order earlier Tuesday, arguing the Supreme Court decision was the end of the legal road for Kane.
Kathleen Kane was all smiles as she was driven to Montgomery County Correctional Facility
Kane looked as though she didn't have a care in the world as she began her jail term which could see her behind bars for up to 23 months after she was found guilty of perjury
District Attorney Kevin Steele wrote: 'Two different appellate courts have reviewed her case, yet her judgment of sentence remains.
'She received a fair trial, her guilt was proven beyond a reasonable doubt and now it is time for her to serve her sentence'.
Kane was convicted of two counts of felony perjury and seven misdemeanors, including obstruction and conspiracy.
She had argued before Superior Court that she should have been allowed to use evidence of a pornographic email scandal that rocked the state’s judicial community.
Kane was then escorted by a police officer into the facility where 400 women are imprisoned
Former Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen Kane leaves court in handcuffs after her sentencing in October 2016
She also has to use evidence related to the Jerry Sandusky child molestation case that her former office prosecuted.
Kane had been critical of the Sandusky investigation while running for office in 2012, creating resentment among prosecutors in the case who told the judge about the grand jury leaks.
'This is war,' Kane wrote in a 2014 email that was aired at trial.
Kane believed ex-state prosecutor Frank Fina (right) was behind a March 2014 story that revealed that she had secretly shut down a sting that captured Democrats accepting gifts
Her other appeal arguments included claims that evidence against her was illegally obtained and that she had been the victim of selective and vindictive prosecution.
Kane became involved in a personal feud with another former prosecutor - a clash that eventually led to her political undoing.
She believed ex-state prosecutor Frank Fina was behind a March 2014 story in The Inquirer and Daily News that revealed that she had secretly shut down a sting investigation.
The sting captured Philadelphia Democrats on tape accepting cash, money orders or gifts from an undercover operative.
Kane will serve her term at the Montgomery County jail in Eagleville, about five miles from Norristown
Fina, for many years the head of corruption cases for the Attorney General's Office, launched the sting before Kane took office in 2013.
Kane later orchestrated a leak of confidential grand jury information about an investigation once run by Fina.
She believed that he had failed to aggressively pursue corruption allegations against the onetime head of the Philadelphia NAACP, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported.
While she was looking for information to discredit Fina, she discovered a series of emails containing pornography and offensive content that were exchanged between state prosecutors, defense lawyers and judges.
The scandal became known as 'Porngate' and it led to the retirements or resignations of more than a half dozen high profile public officials, including onetime Supreme Court justices Seamus P McCaffery and J Michael Eakin.
Kane will now join about 400 other women imprisoned at the Montgomery County jail in Eagleville, about five miles from Norristown.
The women are held in a mix of dorms and multi-person cells, according to Warden Julio M Agarin.
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