Tesla CEO Elon Musk called out Donald Trump's guilty verdict for hush money payments as a "double standard" compared to Hillary Clinton's 2016 campaign actions. In 2016, Clinton's campaign was fined $8,000 for falsely reporting the funding of the Steele dossier as "legal services" rather than a political expenditure. The Steele dossier included unverified allegations about Trump's ties to Russia and was intended to influence the 2016 election according to some. Venture capitalist David Sacks contended that Hillary Clinton's actions should have been prosecuted under New York law as felonies. Musk agreed Clinton's case seemed like a double standard as the Steele dossier was "unquestionably election interference."