NORRISTOWN, MONTGOMERY COUNTY -- Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen Kane now has another title: criminal defendant.
The Scranton native surrendered to authorities Saturday afternoon near Philadelphia on charges she leaked confidential information to a newspaper and later lied about it under oath.
Kathleen Kane,the sitting attorney general, is out on $10,000 bond. Her lawyers remain confident she will not be found guilty of any crime she's charged with.
Moments after Pennsylvania's attorney general arrived in Norristown, Montgomery County, Kathleen Kane was fingerprinted. Then, the sheriff's deputies took her mugshot. Finally, she's brought to a room where she heard the charges read to her via closed circuit television by a magistrate seven miles away.
"We have the technology to do it, which makes it much more convenient for the officers and doesn't take people transporting one way or the other," said Montgomery County Assistant District Attorney Kevin Steele.
Prosecutors said far less this weekend than Thursday. That's when Montgomery County District Attorney Risa Ferman said Kathleen Kane jeopardized people's reputation by breaking the law, leaking confidential grand jury information to a newspaper last year, then orchestrating what Ferman called an elaborate cover-up.
"The charges tell only a small part of the story in this case," said Kane's Defense Attorney Ross Kramer.
Kramer says despite growing calls for her step down, Kathleen Kane plans to stay on the job. He adds Kane is ready for the fight.
"We're looking forward to fighting the charges that we received in the complaint. We're very confident that when all the facts in the case come out, she is going to be exonerated," said Kramer.
Kathleen Kane said nothing as she went in or when she left and was practically in her SUV when the media realized she had been whisked out a side door.
Kane is due in court again for a preliminary hearing in Montgomery County on August 24. She is expected to plead not guilty to the charges that include conspiracy, obstruction, and perjury.