District regulators say a longtime political operative “knowingly and willfully” broke the city’s campaign finance laws — and possibly its criminal laws — for his role in handling nearly $114,000 in checks to himself from former Councilman Michael Brown’s campaign account.

The D.C. Office of Campaign Finance alleged in a five-page complaint to the D.C. Board of Elections last month that Hakim Sutton, whom Brown fired in June as his campaign’s treasurer, failed to report 34 checks worth $113,950 that were payable to — and ultimately endorsed by — him.