With less than two years until the next presidential election, a new campaign fundraising cycle has already begun. Indeed, most expect 2016's federal campaigns to be the costliest in history, spurred in part by the U.S. Supreme Court's loosening of campaign finance restrictions through opinions such as Citizens United v. FEC. Yet there is at least one area of campaign finance law that remains unscathed by Supreme Court's recent precedents: the strictly criminal law of campaign finance fraud.
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Originally published in the February 19, 2015 edition of the Daily Journal.
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