...oh, he's a Republican?
...send the FBI.
Here’s what Collins should do: simply give the money back. . . AND THEN . . . go to a Buddhist temple in downtown Los Angeles for about 15 minutes, eat a hurried lunch, and gather up several hundred thousand dollars.
I would normally think that monks have little money for political campaigns, but in 1996 Al Gore showed how wrong and naive I was. He and he DNC gathered up about $400,000.
Oh, and monks as a religious organization cannot legal donate to a political campaign. What’s cool, is you use the money to win the election, and then if caught, you say “Sorry! Here’s the money back.” (That’s what happened here.)