campaign finance violations

OLYMPIA  (AP) — House Speaker Frank Chopp will pay $6,470 in penalties and attorneys' fees related to campaign finance violations. The attorney general's office announced Tuesday that the Seattle Democrat has been assessed $3,480 in penalties, of which half is suspended as long as he doesn't have any additional violations over the next four years...

SEATTLE (AP) — The Washington Attorney General's Office has charged an Everett lawyer with campaign finance violations, saying that from 2012 to 2015 he concealed the source of at least $16,000 in political contributions. Attorney Jared Karstetter formerly represented the King County Corrections Guild and the King County Court Protection Guild...

OLYMPIA (AP) — An Iowa-based organization that supported a Washington state ballot measure to require labeling of genetically modified foods in 2013 has been fined nearly $320,000 over campaign finance violations. Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson said Thurston County Superior Court Judge Gary Tabor issued the fine Monday against Food Democracy Action...