Money...Perhaps you recall the two ads from long ago that FR had in the Washington Times. Getting the money was worse than pulling hens teeth. The end result was worth it as it got FR put on the cyber map.
Presidential sins...Never ever trust any politician, of any stripe, to leave office with clean skirts, it has never happened.
As for your comment about it always being this way with past politicians, it seems almost to play into the hands of the "everybody does it" and the "let's just move along" crowd...