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.
Jury muskification.
state prosecutors can decide what the jury will say and that’s enough to close the case
USA weird
If you want to get away with crime in America, just be rich.
Guess the prosecutor got paid off as well.
I used to like Elon until he started talking.
no jury would find that constituted election bribery
Why not? Are they planning to let Elon Musk bribe the jury, as well?
Why don’t they actually ask a jury that, you know, with a trial maybe?
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 ?
Why don’t they actually ask a jury that, you know, with a trial maybe?
Or at least a Grand one maybe. I hear those will indict a ham sandwich.
Somebody should investigate the prosecutor for accepting a bribe, me thinks.
Turtles all the way down…
you assume they act in good faith.
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…
La Crosse’s demographics and voting history is just marginally more for Democrats so I wonder what the justification is besides “nah”
Bend over, Wisconsin.
I don’t think “tough” when I think of Wisconsin. I think cheese and pudgy people.
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.
Because of course he does.
sigh.
Maybe he bribed the jury…
