Bice: Elon Musk group removes video from $1M winner after she says she got money to 'vote'
Daniel Bice
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Elon Musk's super PAC replaced a video featuring a $1 million giveaway winner who said she got the money, in part, to vote.
Experts suggest that offering money in exchange for voting could be interpreted as a violation of bribery statutes.
Musk, a supporter of conservative Supreme Court candidate Brad Schimel, has spent significant funds backing Schimel in the Supreme Court election.
Just how nervous is billionaire Elon Musk about allegations that he may be violating the state's bribery statute by paying people to vote?
On Tuesday, Musk's super PAC, America PAC, pulled a video from X featuring $1 million giveaway winner Ekaterina Deistler in which she said she received the money, in part, to "vote." X is owned by the tech billionaire.
"My name’s Ekaterina Deistler," she said in a video posted Monday morning. "I did exactly what Elon Musk told everyone to do: sign the petition, refer friends and family, vote, and now I have a million dollars.
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