The Latest Breaking News from Campaign Finance

PHILADELPHIA — Four candidates running for Philadelphia mayor each collected more than $800,000 in campaign contributions last year, but one hopeful has significantly more money in the bank than any other thanks to a check he wrote to himself.

WASHINGTON — A report for Rep. George Santos’ main campaign finance committee filed with the Federal Election Commission this week by a new treasurer indicated Santos was not the source of a $125,000 loan made to his campaign.

MIAMI — Before George Santos’ life story began to unravel — his spectacular tales of college volleyball stardom and Wall Street pedigree earning him a reputation as perhaps Washington’s greatest fabulist — the Republican congressman was just a dark-horse candidate frequenting Miami’s hippest restaurants and rubbing elbows on the water…

U.S. Rep. George Santos vowed Monday he would cooperate with a looming congressional ethics investigation into his lies about his background and major questions about his campaign finances.

Thailand has a history of using money to influence the outcome of elections, with allegations of vote buying, campaign finance violations and influence peddling marring past elections.

Federal prosecutors reportedly almost charged former President Donald Trump with campaign finance violations in connection with the hush money payment to porn star Stormy Daniels as he left the White House, according to an upcoming book.

New campaign finance filings reported by Daily Beast do not shed light on real source of $600,000 in funding

The refusal thus far of Democratic Gov. Josh Shapiro to disclose who paid for his inaugural party has exposed the gap in state law that lets governors in Pennsylvania escape the kind of transparency sometimes required elsewhere

ORLANDO, Fla. — A former and three current Orlando Sentinel journalists do not have to hand over records relating to Florida Power & Light’s and other organizations’ possible involvement in the “ghost” candidate scheme to Eric Foglesong, a political consultant charged with falsifying campaign finance records, a judge ruled Wednesday.