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In 2022, the Federal Election Commission fined the Clinton campaign $8,000 and the DNC $105,000 for "misreporting the purpose" of the payments used to fund the Steele Dossier as "legal services" and "compliance consulting" when they were actually for "opposition research." The dossier - which the media used to tar Trump, and the FBI used to obtain warrants to spy on a Trump advisor - accused Trump of colluding with Russia. Per a federal special counsel investigation, the FBI "could not corroborate any of the substantive allegations contained in the Steele reporting," even after the FBI offered Steele "$1 million or more" for "such corroboration." The investigation also documented that the misinformation in the Steele Report came from people with deep ties to the Russian government and Hillary Clinton. Despite this probable violation of election law, none of the people who misreported these expenses were prosecuted.