The calls used an artificial-intelligence impersonation of President Biden to urge Democrats not to vote in New Hampshire’s presidential primary.
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President Biden in Nashua, N.H., on Tuesday.
Grand juries in four New Hampshire counties have indicted a Democratic consultant who admitted to orchestrating robocalls in January that used an artificial-intelligence impersonation of President Biden to urge Democrats not to vote in the state’s presidential primary.
The consultant, Steven Kramer, faces about two dozen counts split between impersonating a candidate, a misdemeanor, and voter suppression, a felony. Each pair of charges is tied to a specific voter who received the robocall.
The indictments were handed up over the past month, and the New Hampshire attorney general, John M. Formella, announced them on Thursday.
Separately on Thursday, the Federal Communications Commission fined Mr. Kramer $6 million for trying to “defraud voters using call spoofing technology that violates the Truth in Caller ID Act.”
The F.C.C. also levied a $2 million fine against Lingo Telecom, the company through which the calls were routed, accusing it of “failing to follow our call authentication policies.”
Neither Mr. Kramer nor Lingo Telecom immediately responded to requests for comment.
The news of the indictments against Mr. Kramer was first reported by WMUR-TV in Manchester, N.H.
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