Stephen Glass, the disgraced former journalist caught fabricating stories, sent Harper’s Magazine a check last week for $10,000 as repayment for a discredited article he wrote for the publication in 1998.

“I recognize that repaying Harper’s will not remedy my wrongdoing, make us even, or undo what I did wrong,” he wrote in a letter addressed to Harper’s current and former editors, which was published by The New York Times. “Repayment does nothing to correct my violation of the readers’ and editors’ trust. That said, I did not deserve the money Harper’s paid me, and it should be returned.”

Glass recollects being paid between $5,000 and $7,000 for the article. He intends to repay all outlets that published his now-discredited articles.