(Rhode Island Secretary of State Matt Brown)"...said he did nothing illegal, but agreed to return the money..." after the shady deals became public.
Sure smells funny.
This is why campaign finance laws are ludicrous to begin with. There's always a thousand ways around them that achieve the same effect, but make it harder to tell who is getting support from whom.
THis is a more serious and direct offense than what DeLay was accused of (realising that the actual evidence doesn't support the accusations in the DeLay case).
Government can't ever get this right. They tried to make it so state parties could have some influence, so they let them give 25,000 without regard to where the money came from. But that's for EACH candidate, and now the idea is to get money from every single state party, something the writers of the legislation probably forgot could happen.
We can't get the money out, because there will always be a George Soros who has the right to spend his own money to get his message out. So instead, we should have instant disclosure. Let Hillary take a million from Barbra "Where DID that 'a' go?" Striesand, and let her constituents ask what Barb gets out of it.
(Rhode Island Secretary of State Matt Brown)"...said he did nothing illegal, but agreed to return the money..." after the shady deals became public.