1.   Aside from the swap scheme, investigators found other instances of improper contributions.

2.   According to federal criminal charges, Davis was the mastermind of several contribution swap schemes.

3.   But they insisted that many of the donations were made before the swap scheme was proposed and that the contributions would have been made in any case.

4.   Mullenholz stopped short of saying Carey was familiar with any swap scheme to contribute money to other groups in exchange for having their donors give to the Carey campaign.

5.   The kind of contribution swap scheme described with the Teamsters and the New Party has been seen in the Carey campaign before.