Commission investigators also found that the reimbursed contributions were part of an "extensive and ongoing scheme" by the Hyundai of North Jacksonville dealership to hide the source of the donations, in violation of federal law.
The event raised the issue of whether the temple had held a political fund-raiser in violation of its tax-exempt status as a religious institution and whether temple monastics were illegally reimbursed for contributions.
JULY 18, 1996 -- Mr. Chang writes an $11,000 check to law firm of Berek P. Don, former Bergen County Republican chairman, he says, to reimburse campaign contributions by firm's employees.
Now they are reluctantly suing the trustees and seeking a ruling from the supreme judicial court that orders the trustees either to give the Daughters the requested financial information or to reimburse their contributions to the fund in full.
In that case, Mr. Sharon was ordered to reimburse campaign contributions of nearly $1 million that were improperly raised from overseas donors in 1999, when he was chosen as leader of the Likud Party.
Ms. Lee had called her mother, an aunt and a couple of friends, he said, "and in the process, asked if they would contribute, and as a measure of demonstrating how important the campaign was to her personally," she offered to reimburse their contributions.
A longtime aide to John C. Liu, the New York City comptroller and a Democratic candidate for mayor, appeared to place herself in possible legal jeopardy on Thursday after she detailed for a jury how she had offered to reimburse donors' contributions to Mr. Liu's campaign in what prosecutors have said was an illegal fund-raising scheme.
Most of the contributions were to Arizona state lawmakers and local city councilors, although Junker and his wife, Susan, were reimbursed for two contributions totaling $4,200 to Senator John McCain of Arizona in 2007, investigators found.
The article questioned whether some of the donors even existed and whether some had been reimbursed for their contributions.
Loopholes proliferated, allowing, for example, individuals to give as much as they wanted to political campaigns and to be reimbursed for the contributions by their employers.
In October, The New York Times raised questions about the legitimacy of Mr. Liu's campaign donations and whether some of the donors had been reimbursed for their contributions.
