The Conservatives admit to overspending by $420,000 and are found guilty of breaking election laws.

The punishment?

A $50,000 fine…or about the amount they’ll raise from their next anti-CBC e-mail.

Which is kind of appropriate, since they never got more than a political slap on the wrist for the “in and out scandal”. The blame for that may rest on the opposition parties for bad branding – had it been dubbed the “Conservative money laundering scandal”, they might have got some legs out of it.