NH Man Indicted For Deep Fake “Biden” Robocalls

Manchester’s NBC affiliate reports:

A man who admitted to sending out robocalls mimicking President Joe Biden’s voice on the day of the New Hampshire primary is now facing criminal charges.

Ten indictments have been returned against Steve Kramer out of Rockingham County for bribing, intimidation and suppression and impersonation of candidates. The indictments name five people who said they received the robocall.

Kramer, a political consultant, claimed in an interview with News 9 that he only sent out the calls to drive home the need for more regulation of AI. He said that if investigators wanted to come after him, they should “bring it.”

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NEWS: Steve Kramer, the political consultant then-working for Dean Phillips who admitted to me that he commissioned the Biden deepfake robocall, has been indicted. https://t.co/cQxI061hq8

— Alex Seitz-Wald (@aseitzwald) May 22, 2024

Kramer’s involvement in the deepfake Biden robocall first came to light after the nomadic magician he hired to create the audio came clean to NBC News. Kramer himself then admitted to NBC News he was behind it. https://t.co/w6pJhakXXu

— Alex Seitz-Wald (@aseitzwald) May 22, 2024