{ED} this link-posting thingie is yet another intelligence test that i am failing. Sorry for the mess.
http://ajc.printthis.clickability.com/pt/cpt?action=cpt&title=Frist%27s+finances+questioned&
expire=&urlID=14521810&fb=Y&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ajc.com%2Fnews%2Fcontent%2Fnews%2Fstori
es%2F0605%2F12frist.html&partnerID=552
(Sorry if I do this wrong--bit of a newbie here)
The long and short of it appears to be that Frist took money out od his campaign, put it in the stock market. lost it, and then failed to report. Apparently illegal.
Washington -- Election Day 2000 was five months off, but Bill Frist was already in an enviable position. With a fat campaign war chest and only token opposition in what he had decided was his last race for the U.S. Senate, Frist could turn his attention to grander plans.
Frist began focusing on raising record amounts of cash for other Republicans. But while he was picking up political IOUs that could aid him greatly in a run for president in 2008, his own campaign finances took a sharp, and in some ways baffling, turn for the worse.