Agreements with FEC call for payments of $105,000, $8,000 We now know that the Democratic National Committee and the Hillary Clinton campaign for president in 2016 misled the federal government about funding that infamous and thoroughly debunked "Steele dossier" that made wild and unsubstantiated allegations about then-candidate Donald Trump. It's because they've agreed to pay fines of $105,000, and $8,000, respectively, for those actions that broke federal law.