PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The state Board of Elections has granted Keven A. McKenna, who ran unsuccessfully for Attorney General as an independent last year, permission to set up a monthly schedule to pay more than $5,000 in fines for failing to file campaign finance reports.

But it has done so under the condition that if McKenna, whose law firm, Keven A. McKenna PC, was in Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings earlier this year, fails to adhere to the monthly schedule, the total amount is due in full, according to Richard Thornton, the state Board of Election's director of campaign finance.

The fines date back to 2008, when the Providence lawyer and former state representative was running for state senator.

During that campaign, McKenna failed to file about seven of the finance reports. He filed the outstanding reports in 2010, but the fines remain.

Earlier this year, after paying about $500 toward the fines, McKenna requested that he be granted a monthly payment schedule for the remaining fines, citing financial hardship.

Thornton says it will be up to McKenna and the board staff to work out the monthly payment schedule. McKenna had asked to pay the fines back in $100 installments.