Thanks for the insightful analysis. With respect to your key question, there were two transactions mentioned in the article where I wondered if that type of scenario might be involved. One was the $25,000 Oscar Goodman PAC contribution to the Nevada Democratic Party under Rory Reid's chairmanship; I assume this was money left over from Goodman's first Mayoral campaign; how it was redistributed once it got to the Nevada Democratic Party and what laws such redistribution is subject to I don't know. The other was the $1.5 million contribution to Goodman's re-election campaign, which some have pointed out was seemingly in excess of what he actually needed. I of course have no knowledge of whether these transactions actually involved any campaign finance violations, but if someone were to investigate with your key question in mind those are two transactions which caught my eye.
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