If not, any amounts above the market price would be an illegal campaign contribution.

He was later convicted of making illegal contributions to the Bush campaign.

The question of whether this was an illegal contribution is complicated.

There has been no report charging that any illegal contributions were actually made.

Harris has maintained she had no personal knowledge that her campaign was given illegal contributions.

The national committee paid a $115,000 fine and agreed to turn over to the Treasury $128,000 it had received in illegal contributions.

Both say their main interest is in exposing illegal foreign contributions to Democratic candidates.

He said he had no knowledge whatever of illegal campaign contributions.

There are examples beyond number of simply illegal contributions that the press and public just shrugged off.

The charges stem from $30,000 in illegal contributions to Clinton's presidential campaign.