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If I'm not mistaken Obama's campaign was fined for the same offense -- non-disclosed campaign distributions.

https://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2013/01/07/obama-campai...

You are mistaken, these are not the same offense.

Do explain. As far as I understand the problem is that Cohen paid for the hush money, so it was essentially a campaign contribution that was not reported.

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