AP: “Montana campaign finance regulators on Friday released past bank records of a secretive conservative group that is behind many candidate attack ads and challenges to the state’s election laws that reveal big-money ties to other conservative groups. Judge Jeffrey Sherlock on Friday ordered the release of the American Tradition Partnership files collected by the state in a two-year-old case where it is fighting allegations of illegal electioneering. The order comes a day after Sherlock said he will sanction the group for not producing all the organization records sought by the state.”