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Elon Musk will not face charges for promising to give $1 million to voters in a 2025 Wisconsin Supreme Court election because no jury would find that constituted election bribery, a state prosecutor said Tuesday.

Musk, the founder of SpaceX and CEO of Tesla, was deeply involved in the effort to flip majority control of the highest court in battleground Wisconsin last year. But the candidate he and Republicans backed lost to Democratic-supported Susan Crawford, whose victory preserved liberals' majority on the court.

The bipartisan Wisconsin Elections Commission in July referred two complaints to the Brown County district attorney’s office for possible charges, saying Musk likely broke the law. La Crosse County District Attorney Tim Gruenke was later appointed as a special prosecutor because of a conflict of interest.

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[–] Bebopalouie@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 hour ago

Guess the prosecutor got paid off as well.

[–] bigbangdangler@reddthat.com 3 points 56 minutes ago

Because of course he does.

[–] Octavio@piefed.social 1 points 26 minutes ago

If you want to get away with crime in America, just be rich.

[–] BigTurkey@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 33 minutes ago* (last edited 32 minutes ago)

Pretty sure if Elon goes before a jury, he is getting convicted regardless of what he is charged with cause of how much people don't like him but he'll probably find a way to bribe or blackmail a jury member or two.

[–] DevDave@piefed.social 3 points 1 hour ago

La Crosse's demographics and voting history is just marginally more for Democrats so I wonder what the justification is besides "nah"

[–] BillyClark@piefed.social 28 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

no jury would find that constituted election bribery

Why not? Are they planning to let Elon Musk bribe the jury, as well?

[–] undefined@lemmy.hogru.ch 3 points 39 minutes ago

Why don’t they actually ask a jury that, you know, with a trial maybe?

[–] artyom@piefed.social 19 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

La Crosse County District Attorney Tim Gruenke, a Democrat, announced on Tuesday that he didn’t think he could convince a jury that Musk had made a bribe with the posts.

Gonna write this guy a nice letter...

[–] Major_Tsiom@fedia.io 10 points 2 hours ago (1 children)
[–] ScrambledEggs@lazysoci.al 1 points 1 hour ago

I don't think "tough" when I think of Wisconsin. I think cheese and pudgy people.

[–] nymnympseudonym@piefed.social 34 points 4 hours ago (3 children)

no jury would find that constituted election bribery, a state prosecutor said

Even though the Wisconsin Elections Commission found probable cause that Elon Musk broke the law ?

[–] undefined@lemmy.hogru.ch 2 points 39 minutes ago

Why don’t they actually ask a jury that, you know, with a trial maybe?

[–] ImgurRefugee114@reddthat.com 20 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Somebody should investigate the prosecutor for accepting a bribe, me thinks.

[–] orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 2 hours ago

Turtles all the way down...

[–] mHtt@lemmy.ca 7 points 4 hours ago

you assume they act in good faith.

[–] lemmylump@lemmy.world 10 points 4 hours ago
[–] santa@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 hours ago

Maybe he bribed the jury…

[–] osanna@lemmy.vg 3 points 3 hours ago