[struwwelpeter]

Let me get this straight: take a million or so in illegal money, pay $243k back in fines.

SIGN ME UP!!!

[operation clinton cleanup]

Let me get this straight: take a million or so in illegal money, pay $243k back in fines.

Thank God for campaign finance reform, otherwise this stuff might be against the law.... oh wait, it was!

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

Let me get this straight: take a million or so in illegal money, pay $243k back in fines.

Only in the "logic free zone" of Washington DC. In the real world, one would have to return the million in illegal money AND pay a $243K fine AND be injoined from engaging in fundraising AND be sent to jail AND have any property used in the commision of the crime confiscated by the government.

But those are the laws that THEY make for US.

[Libertina]

Let me get this straight: take a million or so in illegal money, pay $243k back in fines.
My thoughts exactly. Looks like a pretty fine return on investments! No doubt the rats will stop right away now that they've been "punished." /sarcasm.

[Rensselaer]

Let me get this straight: take a million or so in illegal money, pay $243k back in fines.

The fine was $115,000. Another $128,000 in illegal contributions had to be forked over, making the total paid now the $243,000 reported. The rest of the illegal money had already been "disgorged" as they say, meaning repaid to the donor or to the US Treasury. So the fine may be ridiculously low in any event, but it is in addition to repaying the money.

Admittedly, this article doesn't make that clear, but that's the way it is.