Should he not have had an agent or a treasurer for his campaign? I can believe that Peter Hain himself would not have kept track of where money was coming from but he'd be foolish not to have given someone else the role.

On a personal level, I quite like him.  Politically I often don't.  I did manage to win an argument with him once, although it didn't change his vote on the Bill in question.

In situations like this, you don't really know what you are being fed by the media.  There are so many agendas to filter through that the real story drifts off into oblivion.  I largely tend to ignore these things now because I have no idea who to believe.