Former top state senator forfeits $90,000 in OCPF settlement

A former top Beacon Hill Democrat has made a $48,000 payment to the state’s general fund as part of an agreement with regulators to resolve campaign finance issues including a failure to disclose roughly $175,000 in credit card expenditures made by his committee.

Richard Moore, who served as Senate president pro tempore when he lost his seat to Republican challenger Ryan Fattman in 2014, forfeited a total of $90,000 in the settlement, the Office of Campaign and Political Finance announced Wednesday. He had served in the Senate since 1996 and in the House from 1977 to 1994.

OCPF said Moore’s campaign rung up $181,942 on five credit cards from 2008 to 2015, but disclosed only $7,253 of that in campaign finance reports.

To resolve the matter, he made a personal payment of $48,082 to the general fund and disgorged the $477 balance of his campaign account, OCPF said, along with forgiving $41,440 in outstanding personal loans he made to his campaign. Moore, of Uxbridge, also agreed to dissolve his campaign account and not run for office again in Massachusetts without first consulting OCPF.

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