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HARRISBURG — A state Supreme Court order on Friday formally disbarred former Attorney General Kathleen Kane, according to a press release from the Administrative Office of Pennsylvania Courts.

Kane is currently in the Montgomery County Correctional Facility on a 10- to 23-month sentence. She was convicted in 2016 of leaking grand jury information and then lying about it.

According to the release from the AOPC, Kane’s disbarment goes into effect on April 21.

Kane, of Scranton, was both the first woman and the first woman to be elected to the state’s top prosecutor position, but she resigned from office after her 2016 conviction.

She was found guilty of two counts of felony perjury and seven misdemeanors, including counts of obstruction of justice and conspiracy.

Her charges stem from a 2014 grand jury investigation into the leaking of two memos from Kane’s office. The grand jury officially recommended criminal charges in early 2015, and she was formally charged in Montgomery County later that year.

After a week-long trial, during which she was convicted of all nine counts she was facing, she resigned from office.

In October 2016, she was sentenced to 10 to 23 months in prison. But she did not begin serving her term until November 2018, remaining free on bail until the state Superior Court affirmed her conviction in May.

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By Patrick Kernan

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