In exchange, the Carey campaign was to receive $100,000 from a foreign citizen who had originally proposed giving the money to the party.

The Carey campaign rejected that $100,000 donation because the foreign citizen was an employer, and employers cannot donate to union candidates.

Citizen Action, which has repeatedly denied any wrongdoing, then gave $100,000 to a direct-mail group working for the Carey campaign, the report said.

Investigators say the donation was never reported by the Carey campaign to the Federal election monitor as required by law.

In exchange, the committee was to ask one or more of its donors to contribute $100,000 to the Carey campaign.

As part of the scheme, the wife of the company's president contributed $95,000 to the Carey campaign.

Quindel found that the Carey campaign had received more than $220,000 in illegal contributions.

As part of those schemes, wealthy contributors to those groups donated $185,000 to the Carey campaign.

Nash and Davis concluded a direct mail and phone bank effort would cost $700,000, money the Carey campaign did not have.

He suggested that the topic might have been a swap of money between Democrats and the Carey campaign.