--- title: Jill Stein Is Belatedly Paying Off Her 2016 Campaign Fines description: Jill Stein’s 2016 Green Party presidential campaign committee cut the Federal Election Commission a $41,735.31 check in late December. canonical: https://time.com/5537205/jill-stein-campaign-fines/ author: TIME article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2019-02-25T17:18:32.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-19T07:45:05.734Z article:section: Politics og:title: Jill Stein Is Belatedly Paying Off Her 2016 Campaign Fines og:description: After an investigation revealed she still owed money to the FEC og:url: https://time.com/5537205/jill-stein-campaign-fines/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4cabadcfcf614542/6988b2985f570f7475b2386c/jill-stein-pennsylvania-recount-rejected.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 3922 og:image:height: 2206 og:image:alt: Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein Discusses Recount Effort og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Jill Stein Is Belatedly Paying Off Her 2016 Campaign Fines twitter:description: After an investigation revealed she still owed money to the FEC twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4cabadcfcf614542/6988b2985f570f7475b2386c/jill-stein-pennsylvania-recount-rejected.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Jill Stein Is Belatedly Paying Off Her 2016 Campaign Fines > Sponsored content. 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Stein’s 2016 Green Party presidential campaign committee cut the Federal Election Commission a [$41,735.31 check](https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/5746861-Jill-Stein-Check.html) in late December — an effort to resolve the committee’s mounting legal troubles. The payment came days after the Center for Public Integrity reported that Stein’s campaign [owed the federal government about $53,000](https://publicintegrity.org/federal-politics/why-wont-jill-stein-pay-her-fines/) related to nine separate unpaid fines for violating federal campaign finance rules. Stein, who captured 1.1 percent of the presidential vote two years ago — about 1.42 million votes nationally — used [public matching funds](https://www.fec.gov/updates/fec-declares-jill-stein-eligible-to-receive-federal-matching-funds/) to help bankroll her campaign and has long been an advocate of strict campaign finance laws. FEC records indicate Stein’s campaign still owes nearly $15,400 in fines and related fees — something a Stein staffer says was caused by an accounting mix-up that will soon be fixed. Stein’s campaign “previously issued payment for all outstanding obligations to the Federal Election Commission in December 2018,” Stein campaign Director of Compliance Matt Kozlowski wrote in an email. “At the same time, the FEC issued a repayment for overpayments towards previous obligations, which created a new balance owed while these payments crossed in the mail. The Jill Stein for President Campaign is working with the FEC to resolve this matter.” FEC Chairwoman Ellen Weintraub, a Democrat, and FEC Commissioner Caroline Hunter, a Republican, said in separate interviews that they’re glad that Stein’s campaign is paying the fines. The FEC has been bedeviled in recent years by [dozens of political committees](https://publicintegrity.org/federal-politics/scofflaw-politicos-ignore-federal-fines-with-few-consequences%e2%80%af/) that have refused to pay fines the agency has levied for election law violations. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5537205/jill-stein-campaign-fines/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5537205/jill-stein-campaign-fines/"},"headline":"Jill Stein Is Belatedly Paying Off Her 2016 Campaign Fines","datePublished":"2019-02-25T17:18:32.000Z","dateModified":"2026-08-19T07:45:05.734Z","description":"Jill Stein’s 2016 Green Party presidential campaign committee cut the Federal Election Commission a $41,735.31 check in late December.","url":"https://time.com/5537205/jill-stein-campaign-fines/","keywords":["Campaign Finance","2016 Election"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4cabadcfcf614542/6988b2985f570f7475b2386c/jill-stein-pennsylvania-recount-rejected.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Dave Levinthal / Center for Public Integrity"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4cabadcfcf614542/6988b2985f570f7475b2386c/jill-stein-pennsylvania-recount-rejected.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein Discusses Recount Effort","caption":"Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein speaks at a news conference on Fifth Avenue across the street from Trump Tower December 5, 2016 in New York City.","creditText":"Drew Angerer/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/campaign-finance/","name":"Campaign Finance"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5537205/jill-stein-campaign-fines/","name":"Jill Stein Is Belatedly Paying Off Her 2016 Campaign Fines"}}]}] ```