Elon Musk Faces Lawsuit for Phony Election Sweepstakes
Elon Musk Will face a lawsuit Accusing him of defrauding the voters with his electoral lottery shaded before 2024 – in which the billionaire swung a chance for a salary of a million dollars on the voters who signed a pro -constitution petition by his America PAC.
“We will assign $ 1 million at random to people who have signed the petition, from now on, so far in the elections,” Musk told a crowd of Pennsylvania in October. But in the midst of a failed attempt at the Philadelphia district prosecutor to stop the gift, America PAC revealed that the beneficiaries of a million dollars had not been chosen by chance but handpicked, their personal stories being a factor in the selection process.
It was a news for Jacqueline McAfty of Arizona, who had signed the petition and, on election day, proposed a collective appeal, saying that Musk and America Pac had defrauded the voters. Musk, said McAfty, induced voters with false statements to sign the petition and submit “personal and private information” in the process.
Musk in January research To make the case reject, insisting that people who have registered in the possibility of gaining $ 1 million was not injured by sharing their personal information and were informed – despite its apparent contrary declarations – that the staff of America PAC would examine their cases rather than leaving their selection at random.
But Wednesday, a federal judge in Texas ordered Musk to face the trial.
“It is plausible that the applicant rightly counted on these declarations to believe that the defendants objectively offered him the possibility of entering a random lottery – even if it is not what they had subjectively intention to do,” wrote American district judge Robert Pitman, by Reuters.
Pitman also suggested that an expert in political data could testify and help determine the value of the information that McAfty and other signatories have provided Musk.
The presence of Musk in the political sphere has decreased in recent months. He channeled millions in the Trump campaign and led the President’s efforts to empty the federal government before the two were very public on the tax and expenses of the administration.
But the richest man in the world remains interested in politics: when The Wall Street Journal reported this week that Musk had abandoned his plans to start a political party, which he designed for the first time during his quarrel with Trump, Musk suggested that it was not true.
