The $1 million-a-day voter sweepstakes that Elon Musk 's political action committee is hosting in swing states can continue through Tuesday’s presidential election, a Pennsylvania judge ruled Monday. Common Pleas Court Judge Angelo Foglietta — ruling after Musk’s lawyers said the winners are paid spokespeople and not chosen by chance — did not immediately explain his reasoning. District Attorney Larry Krasner, a Democrat, had called the process a scam “designed to actually influence a national election” and asked that it be shut down.
Presenting a giveaway as random and then not following through with a random selection is very illegal. I guess it shouldn’t be too surprising that Musk’s lawyer just straight up admitted to a felony in court, given that there’s no way a competent lawyer would have ever signed off on this and put himself in a situation where he’d have to defend it in court. Not unless Musk is willing to pay him so much that he’ll never need to practice law again.
Unfortunate that they weren’t able to do anything to stop the electioneering. But there’s enough blatant criminal activity here that there should be no reason why they can’t press charges (state and federal) and throw his ass in prison. They just need to be willing to go after him, and also not have Trump in the white house protecting him.
Presenting a giveaway as random and then not following through with a random selection is very illegal. I guess it shouldn’t be too surprising that Musk’s lawyer just straight up admitted to a felony in court, given that there’s no way a competent lawyer would have ever signed off on this and put himself in a situation where he’d have to defend it in court. Not unless Musk is willing to pay him so much that he’ll never need to practice law again.
Unfortunate that they weren’t able to do anything to stop the electioneering. But there’s enough blatant criminal activity here that there should be no reason why they can’t press charges (state and federal) and throw his ass in prison. They just need to be willing to go after him, and also not have Trump in the white house protecting him.
I’m sure he is somehow shielded by the PAC.
The fucker personally handed out the giant check. He can’t exactly argue that he wasn’t involved.
I’m sure they’ll get right on that, right after they move forward with any of Trump’s trials