Posted on 03/31/2022 4:29:15 PM PDT by where's_the_Outrage?
The Federal Election Commission has fined Hillary Clinton's 2016 campaign $8,000 and the Democratic National Committee $105,000 for obscuring their funding of the "Steele dossier," a 2016 opposition research report that sought to highlight alleged links between Donald Trump and Russia.
The bipartisan election commission also dismissed a complaint against Christopher Steele, the author of the dossier that caused a firestorm of allegations and investigations that shook the early months of Trump's presidency.
The campaign mislabeled Steele's work as "legal services" and "legal and compliance consulting" in campaign filings, the FEC concluded......
Steele's report concluded, based on anonymous sources, that Russia had collected information that might compromise Trump. The dossier has been a source of controversy for years and Trump has often claimed it spurred the special counsel investigation into contacts between his campaign and Russian officials.
Lawyers for Steele lauded the ruling in a statement to CBS News.
"This ruling by the FEC underlines once again that Mr. Steele and Orbis Business Intelligence acted with complete integrity and professionalism in relation to their work on the 2016 presidential election," wrote Steele's attorneys Robert Weinberg and Joshua Shiffrin.
(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...
Not well, because even the founders never anticipated the depths of what we're dealing with.
No, but it does tell you where to focus your inquiries...
Without the FEC to Help, Americans Can Sue Campaign Finance Violators Themselves
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