Five days after Andrew Cuomo’s mayoral campaign accepted a maximum $2,100 donation from Rabbi Marc Schneier in March, the campaign accepted a far more unusual gift: $250 from the rabbi’s five-year-old son.
The campaign then applied for and received $2,000 in taxpayer funds matching the son’s donation. The problem? A campaign cannot seek taxpayer matching funds for a person under 18.
New York City also has a strict legal requirement that donors fund their own contributions, raising questions about how a 5-year-old funded his own donation…