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Article: FEC Adds Fine to Hastert's Legal Bills in Mark Foley Case
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- January 3, 2008
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As if the House page scandal involving former representative Mark
Foley (R-Fla.) hadn't done enough damage to Republicans, now we
discover that legal bills arising from it landed former speaker J.
Dennis Hastert's campaign committee in hot water with the Federal
Election Commission.
According to FEC documents, Hastert (R-Ill.) failed to disclose
in early January 2007 that his 2006 reelection campaign had run up
$147,000 in legal bills stemming from his connection with the Foley
investigation. Hastert agreed to settle the matter and pay a $1,000
penalty.
One of Hastert's campaign lawyers signed the agreement Aug. 20,
three days after he publicly announced he would not run for office
again, ...
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Article: COLUMN: Taxpayers should not pay for Clinton & Co. legal bills
University Wire;
October 10, 2002 ;
417 words
......asking for taxpayer funding for their legal bills, which could total up to $8 million...Clintons are asking. The Clintons have legal bills totaling between $1.75 million and...asking the working class to pay the legal bills of a millionaire is a bit illogical...
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