According to the article written by Mathew Mosk of The Washington Post on March 21, 2008,
(http://blog.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2008/03/21/mccain_blows_by_publ...) reports filed on the previous day (March 20, 2008) show that Sen. John McCain has officially broken the $54 million dollar spending limitation imposed by the presidential public financing system upon primary bid spending by $4.4 million for an illegal total of $58.4 million. This violation follows in spite of the fact that Federal Election Commission Chairman David Mason did not grant McCain’s Feb. 6 request to withdraw from public matching program.