"The first thing she said was this material that was released, it was not grand jury material," Beemer said. Bruce Beemer testified against Attorney General Kathleen Kane as she fights perjury and obstruction charges in suburban Philadelphia. NORRISTOWN, Pa. (AP) " A former top aide to Pennsylvania's attorney general testified Wednesday his "heart sank a little" when his boss asked him to try to block a special investigation into a grand jury leak. "I believe there's no doubt that it's grand jury material. Kane, a first-term Democrat, is accused of leaking grand jury material about a dormant criminal investigation to a newspaper to embarrass a rival.

Source: New Zealand Herald August 10, 2016 23:27 UTC