Lincoln Reward Money Fraud?

[Dave Taylor]

, would the government then have paid out another reward?

No, and they would have wanted what they paid out, back

Actually, the government would have never paid out the money in the first place unless they were 100% certain that it was Booth. That is why, in 1865, they went to such extremes to positively identify Booth. There's no way the government was going to shell out that much money on anyone other than the real assassin.