Did Mitt Romney's fundraising team violate campaign finance laws? That's what The Boston Globe claims today. In general, one of the first steps of a Presidential exploratory committee is to convert the infrastructure of the candidate's leadership PAC toward the main campaign. That's what the Romney team did — but the Globe alleges that it was done improperly. The paper points out that Romney's exploratory site links to a page for their National Finance Team members to log in — but that page is apparently paid for and run by his Commonwealth PAC.

This is a violation, the Globe says, because activities by the Presidential campaign, especially fundraising, should only be paid for by the exploratory committee, not the PAC.