Felony Policy Won’t Affect Kane

Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen Kane looks on before newly elected members of the Pennsylvania Legislature are sworn in, Tuesday, Jan. 6, 2015, at the state Capitol in Harrisburg, Pa. Republicans who control both the Senate and House picked up additional seats in the November election. In the House, Republicans outnumber Democrats 119 to 84 and in the Senate, 30 to 20. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Attorney General Kathleen Kane has a policy: Any employee of her office who faces felony charges will be suspended without pay.

The policy doesn’t apply to Kane herself, TribLive reports.

“The provision requiring suspension for accused felons ‘does not cover the attorney general, who is an elected official rather than an employee,’ her spokesman Chuck Ardo said Tuesday,” Brad Bumsted writes. 

Kane could soon face felony charges. Montgomery County D.A. Risa Vetri Ferman is currently deciding whether to adopt a grand jury’s recommendation that Kane be charged in connection with leaking information from a grand jury probe.

But Kane’s decision not to apply her policy to herself may not be that unusual, TribLive reports:

“State officials said it is discretionary for elected officials to include themselves in such policies. Philadelphia lawyer George Parry, a former federal and city prosecutor, said, ‘I’d have to give (Kane) the benefit of the doubt if it was in place when (Tom) Corbett was attorney general. I could not say she was hypocritical.’”