{"id":1519222,"date":"2026-06-30T08:47:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T13:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?guid=1dba7a9f6e9be48f9d6cddc1cf7e1f05"},"modified":"2026-06-30T08:58:25","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T13:58:25","slug":"sen-ruben-gallego-under-investigation-for-suspected-campaign-finance-violations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1519222","title":{"rendered":"Sen. Ruben Gallego under investigation for suspected campaign finance violations"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure><img src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2026\/06\/9510f3b88fa271597a943b0912f106e6.jpg\" alt\/><figcaption>Sen. Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) talks to reporters as he heads for a vote at the U.S. Capitol on June 01, 2026 in Washington, DC.  (Photo by Chip Somodevilla\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure><p>(WASHINGTON) -- Arizona Sen. Ruben Gallego is under federal investigation for suspected campaign finance violations, a person familiar with the matter confirmed to ABC News.<\/p><p>According to multiple reports, Gallego, a Democrat, used campaign funds to fly his family to the Caribbean, Miami, Nantucket and Puerto Rico. He also allegedly used funds to pay for childcare.<\/p><p>Campaign funds may be used to pay for a candidate\u2019s childcare expenses that are incurred as a direct result of campaign activities, according to the Federal Election Commission.<\/p><p>On Monday, the Senate Ethics Committee closed its inquiry into allegations of sexual misconduct and campaign finance violations after finding no evidence that Gallego violated Senate rules or applicable law, according to a letter released by his office.<\/p><p>In regards to the federal investigation, a Gallego spokesperson told Axios that \"it's the least surprising news of the week that this comes immediately after the Senate Ethics Committee cleared Senator Gallego of right-wing smears pushed by the administration.\"<\/p><p>ABC News has reached out to Gallego's office for comment on the investigation. The Department of Justice has not yet commented on the probe.<\/p><p>Copyright \u00a9 2026, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) talks to reporters as he heads for a vote at the U.S. Capitol on June 01, 2026 in Washington, DC.  (Photo by Chip Somodevilla\/Getty Images)(WASHINGTON) &#8212; Arizona Sen. Ruben Gallego is under federal investigation for suspected&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8875,"featured_media":1519230,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2026\/06\/9510f3b88fa271597a943b0912f106e6.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1449],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1519222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-abc-political-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-02 11:16:54","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2026\/06\/9510f3b88fa271597a943b0912f106e6.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1519222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8875"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1519222"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1519222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1519231,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1519222\/revisions\/1519231"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1519230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1519222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1519222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1519222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}