Article snippet: 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. The disposition agreement — signed July 9 by Moore, his treasurer and spouse Joanne Moore, and Sullivan — resolves OCPF’s findings that Moore failed to accurately disclose campaign finance activity, failed to keep detailed records, used committee funds for personal expenses, improperly used credit cards for committee and personal spending, and filed false reports. Moore wrote in the... Link to the full article to read more