Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign and the Democratic National Committee have agreed to pay $113,000 to settle a Federal Election Commission investigation.

The election watchdog was probing whether the groups violated campaign finance law after the Coolidge Reagan Foundation filed an administrative complaint in 2018 accusing the Democrats of misreporting payments made to law firm Perkins Coie during the 2016 election.

While employed by the campaign, the firm hired research and intelligence company Fusion G.P.S. to conduct opposition research on Donald Trump's ties to Russia.

On F.E.C. forms, however the campaign classified the spending as legal services.

Both Clinton and D.N.C. had argued that the payments had been described accurately but agreed to settle without conceding to avoid further legal costs.