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Kathleen Kane Former Commonwealth attorney-general, jailed for leaking grand jury information and perjury

Kathleen Kane , 52, had been free on $75,000 bail while she appealed her 10-to-23-month sentence. The state Supreme Court announced Monday that it had declined to take up her case.   A Pennsylvania judge has ordered commonwealth’s former attorney general to report to prison by 9 a.m Thursday Nov 29th, more than two years after she was convicted for leaking grand jury information and lying about it.   “Given that the rationale for (the) defendant remaining at liberty pending appeal has expired, post-sentence bail is revoked,” Judge Wendy Demchick-Alloy write in ordering Kane to report to the Montgomery County Correctional Facility. Demchick-Alloy formally directed the Lackawanna County sheriff to serve a copy of her order on Kane, who lives in Scranton. The 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.   “Two different appellate courts have reviewe