A Democratic strategist indicted in New Hampshire for an illegal robocall scheme while working for the long-shot presidential campaign of Rep. Dean Phillips (D-MN) did work for another presidential candidate three months after his identity was exposed.
Specifically, reported Business Insider's Bryan Metzger, the consultant, Steve Kramer "was paid $150,000 by Jill Stein's campaign in May for ballot access petitioning work in New York."
The campaign for Stein, a gadfly candidate who served as the Green Party's nominee in 2012 and 2016, "says they were unaware of the scandal, which broke in February," Metzger continued.
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This comes after Phillips' campaign, which was suspended following the Super Tuesday contests, denied any knowledge of Kramer's alleged illegal scheme.
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Kramer, according to state and federal officials, masterminded a robocall that used a "deepfaked" voice of President Joe Biden to tell primary voters to stay home from the New Hampshire primary and "save" their votes for the general election instead. This is misinformation, as voters are entitled to vote in both the primary of the party of their choice and in the subsequent general election.
In an odd twist of events, Kramer hired Paul Carpenter, a world-record-holding street magician, to help him create the robocall.
Misinforming voters with the intent of tricking them out of exercising the franchise is a crime.
Last year, Doug Mackey, an extreme alt-right social media personality who went by the pseudonym Ricky Vaughn, was sentenced to seven months in prison for posts in 2016 falsely instructing Black voters they could vote by cell phone by "Text[ing] 'Hillary' to 59925."
In April of this year, right-wing activists Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman were ordered to pay up to $1.25 million in penalties for robocalls in 2020 falsely telling Black voters that casting a ballot would identify their location for collections agencies and outstanding warrants.