Not too mysterious. FTA:<p>>on at least seven separate occasions he had meals that cost exactly $199.99—a sum that happens to be precisely one cent short of the threshold that requires documentation of campaign expenditures in the form of receipts
Unimportant nitpick, "osso bucco" is actually "ossobuco" (one word and one c only), it is on en.wikipedia allright:<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ossobuco" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ossobuco</a><p>It would be interesting to know if it is actually written like that on the menu or of it is the journalist mis-spelling it.