A consultant for a Boston City Council candidate was hit with a campaign finance violation and $5,000 fine, for activity that led to a presumption of illegal coordination between the campaign and a supportive labor union he also worked for.

Christopher Keohan, a consultant with CK Strategies, LLC who did work for the 2023 committee to reelect City Councilor Erin Murphy, was notified of the violation on Nov. 20 but the letter from the state Office of Campaign and Political Finance was not posted publicly until Wednesday.

“This office has completed its review of a complaint alleging what appeared to be a coordinated expenditure by the International Association of Fire Fighters made to support the 2023 reelection campaign of Erin Murphy for Boston City Council,” OCPF Director William Campbe

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