This is How Citizens United Dies-Feds: Mexican tycoon exploited super PACs to influence US elections

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33. There's also this FEC case

http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1997-07-19/news/9707190089_1_paul-hendrie-thomas-kramer-fec

July 19, 1997

A Florida developer has been fined a record $323,000 for funneling illegal contributions to Republican and Democratic campaigns, the Federal Election Commission announced Friday. The donations from Thomas Kramer were illegal because he is a German citizen.

The FEC also imposed a fine of $82,000 against Florida's Republican Party, which initially refused to give back most of Kramer's $205,000 in donations. That fine is a record for a party committee, according to the watchdog group Center for Responsive Politics.

More than a dozen politicians received the illegal funds during the 1994 campaign season, including Sen. Connie Mack (R-Fla.), Republican gubernatorial candidate Jeb Bush, U.S. Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-Fla.), former state comptroller Gerald Lewis, former state Senate President Pat Thomas and many local candidates in Dade County. They were sent letters of admonishment but were not fined.


http://www.nytimes.com/1997/07/19/us/fec-fines-german-citizen-for-us-campaign-donations.html

Mr. Kramer, a German citizen who runs businesses in Florida, made more than $320,000 in campaign contributions in the 1994 elections to both Republicans and Democrats, either directly or through his secretary, other intermediaries or through 17 businesses that he owned. Of this amount, $287,600 came through Mr. Kramer's businesses, at his direction.

Federal law prohibits foreign nationals, except those who hold registration cards granting them permission to live and work in the United States, from making contributions to elections in this country, or from directing others to do so. It is also unlawful for anyone to make campaign contributions in someone else's name.