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   From: jail_hillary_clinton@gmail.com   
      
   The Federal Election Commission has fined both Hillary Clinton’s 2016   
   presidential campaign and the Democratic National Committee for lying   
   about how they spent money used to fund the now-debunked Steele dossier on   
   former President Donald Trump.   
      
   The Clinton campaign and the DNC will be forced to pay $8,000 and $105,000   
   respectively for mislabeling payments that ultimately went to Fusion GPS,   
   the consulting firm that commissioned the dossier, according to FEC   
   documents viewed by the Post.   
      
   The fines stem from a complaint originally filed in 2018 by the Coolidge   
   Reagan Foundation, which was informed of the outcome on Tuesday.   
      
   The Clinton campaign and the DNC paid more than $1 million combined to   
   powerful Democratic law firm Perkins Coie, which engaged Fusion GPS to dig   
   for dirt on Trump. Fusion GPS, in turn, hired former British spy   
   Christopher Steele — whose namesake dossier included allegations that   
   Russian security services possessed a tape of Trump in a Moscow hotel room   
   with prostitutes who were supposedly urinating on a bed where the Obamas   
   had previously stayed.   
      
   The FEC said Clinton and the DNC claimed the money given to Perkins Coie   
   to hire Fusion GPS was reported on disclosure forms as having gone toward   
   “legal advice and services” rather than opposition research.   
      
   The commission ruled it had found probable cause that both the Clinton   
   campaign and the DNC had violated election law by not being “sufficiently   
   specific” about the purpose of the payments and not including detailed   
   information about Fusion GPS in the disclosure forms.   
      
   Both the Clinton campaign and the DNC did not admit the FEC’s finding, but   
   said they “will not further contest the commission’s finding of probable   
   cause,” according to documents reviewed by the Post.   
      
   Lawyers for both Democratic entities maintained the payments were reported   
   “in accordance with the law and Commission guidelines,” claiming Fusion   
   GPS’ work would assist Perkins Coie in providing legal advice. They also   
   argued that Fusion GPS’s work was protected under attorney-client   
   privilege.   
      
   Despite its murky sourcing, the dossier was used by the feds between   
   October 2016 and September 2017 to successfully apply for surveillance   
   warrants targeting former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page.   
      
   In November, Igor Danchenko, described as a key source for information in   
   the dossier, was arrested and charged with lying to the FBI about the   
   sources he tapped for his dubious intelligence.   
      
   Danchenko was nabbed as part of special counsel John Durham’s   
   investigation into the origins of the FBI’s Russia probe, which Trump has   
   long insisted was a witch hunt.   
      
   Former President Donald Trump said the ruling confirmed his belief that   
   the 2016 Democratic candidate perpetrated a major hoax against his   
   campaign.   
      
   “Wow! Just out that the 2016 Clinton Campaign and the DNC paid the FEC   
   today for violating the law by failing to disclose that their payments for   
   ‘legal advice and services’ to law firm Perkins Coie was, in fact, a guise   
   to hire numerous companies, all of whom are now named Defendants in my   
   lawsuit, to try and take down and illegally destroy your favorite   
   President, me,” he said in a statement.   
      
   “This was done to create, as I have stated many times, and is now   
   confirmed, a Hoax funded by the DNC and the Clinton Campaign. This   
   corruption is only beginning to be revealed, is un-American, and must   
   never be allowed to happen again. Where do I go to get my reputation   
   back?”   
      
   https://nypost.com/2022/03/30/clinton-campaign-dnc-fined-by-fec-for-lying-   
   about-steele-dossier-payments/   
      
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