Campaign finance experts tell TPM Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) better have a written deferred compensation agreement signed and dated before he collected $10 million from a company he owns right after spending $9 million of his own cash on getting elected to the Senate in November. For now, Johnson seems content to ignore press inquires about the transaction.

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