So a candidate could (if so inclined) take donations, receive matching funds, then take the donations plus the matching funds and give the total to others to be redonated as new money to receive double matching funds....?
In essense, the money grows by a 2^n factor. If anyone is doing this, I hope they are prosecuted to the maximum extent.
In essense, the money grows by a 2^n factor. If anyone is doing this, I hope they are prosecuted to the maximum extent."
Yes, that is how it could work. Easiest would be to gather all the smaller individual donations, as they are the hardest to trace, then enlist some folks such as the Paws to send in the larger checks. The trace would then have to jump from the Paws back to the campaign, and I doubt if that would be easy.
This will likely turn out to be simply another unsubstantiated rumor of the campaign trail. No self-respecting Attorney General of these here United States of America is ever going to try to prosecute Hitlery. That will never happen.