We've heard it all before. The politician who plagarizes, who steals, who screws up - it's never their fault.
It looks like Ms. O'Donnell is going to be filing amended campaign finance reports. Per the attached article:
In a letter to the FEC dated Dec. 21, Ms. Mitchell said that Ms. O’Donnell, who became the GOP nominee but lost the November election, "did not have the funds prior to the 2010 primary in September, 2010 to retain professional compliance vendors and counsel. Since the general election on November 2, 2010, the Committee’s compliance team has undertaken the task of going back to the beginning of the election cycle to reconcile all entries in the bank account to the FEC reports and is in the process of preparing amendment(s) to the previously filed reports as necessary."
Wall Street Journal
So, she didn't keep track of the money and now that she is being investigated (caught) it looks like someone is going to do it and all those personal expenses paid on her behalf are now going to show of up "loans" to the candidate. I don't know if "loans" are legal but surely she can't have been expected to be an accountant at the same time she was a candidate.