Billionaire Elon Musk likely broke the law when he handed out $1 million checks to voters just days before Wisconsin’s Supreme Court election, a state election board found.
The Wisconsin Elections Commission, currently split evenly between Democrats and Republicans, voted 5-1 in a closed session last week to refer the complaints to the Brown County district attorney’s office, the commission’s spokesperson Emilee Miklas told the Associated Press. The panel referred two complaints to the Brown County district attorney’s office.
Prosecutors have 40 days to report back to the commission on whether they will bring criminal charges against Musk for violating election bribery guidelines.
Musk was heavily involved in an effort to flip control of Wisconsin’s Supreme Court. He and adjacent groups spent at least $20 million supporting the Republican-backed candidate, Brad Schimel, who later lost to Democratic-backed candidate Susan Crawford by 10 percentage points.
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A state government watchdog group filed a lawsuit last June seeking to prohibit Musk from ever offering cash payments again to voters in the battleground state.
Republican Brown County District Attorney David Lasee did not immediately respond to a request for comment from NOTUS.
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