The New Hampshire Attorney General’s office has cited top state officials — including House Majority Leader Jason Osborne and Karen Liot Hill, the Executive Council’s lone Democrat — with violating state campaign finance laws. The Department of Justice simultaneously announced separate campaign finance sanctions against the House’s deputy majority leader and the political committee run by House Republican leaders.

The flurry of cease-and-desist orders and fines amount to something relatively rare in New Hampshire politics: the enforcement of state campaign finance laws against State House candidates, committees and office holders.

Each case, announced in a press release from the Department of Justice Friday afternoon, also involves individuals who are lighting rods in Concord’s increasin

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