Sixty-five-year-old Sandra Baxter was sentenced in Ingham County Wednesday to 3 months’ probation, 20 hours of community service, and a $2,500 fine, the maximum allowed by law.
Baxter was a fundraising consultant who solicited donations for the Michigan! My Michigan! nonprofit group financing the Unlock Michigan ballot campaign during the COVID-19 pandemic. She was initially charged with perjury.
Baxter pled guilty in June to one count of knowingly providing false information to state investigators during a probe into an alleged dark money scheme that funded efforts to curb Governor Gretchen Whitmer’s authority during the pandemic.
The Michigan Supreme Court declared the law underlying the governor’s powers unconstitutional and the state legislature, then led by Republicans, repealed the law in 2021.
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