Former state attorney general sent for treatment after probation violation

Former Pennsylvania attorney general Kathleen Kane, centre, is led to court (Matt Rourke/AP)

Pennsylvania’s former top law enforcement officer, who served jail time for leaking secret investigative files and lying about it, has admitted violating her probation by being arrested for drink-driving in March.

Kathleen Kane, the first woman and first Democrat to be elected attorney general in the state, was sentenced to two months to a year of jail for the probation violation – but was given credit for time already served and was scheduled to be paroled directly to a residential treatment centre for alcohol use.