http://www.fec.gov/press/press2006/20061228summary.htmlPress release: “The Federal Election Commission reported today that it collected civil penalties of more than $6.2 million in 2006, more than doubling the total amount of penalties of any other single year in the agency’s 31-year history. Since the FEC opened its doors in 1975, it has had 49 enforcement cases with penalties over $100,000 – 12 of these cases (nearly one out of every four) were concluded in 2006.”