DOJ aware of complaints that Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC million-dollar lottery for registered voters is 'clearly illegal'

Source: Law & Crime

Oct 22nd, 2024, 12:35 pm


The U.S. Department of Justice is apparently aware of calls to investigate Elon Musk’s pro-Donald Trump America PAC for its cash offer to swing state residents who become eligible for a daily $1 million lottery until the 2024 election if they sign a petition in support of the First and Second Amendments and are registered to vote, a strategy that some legal experts have said is “clearly” or “pretty clearly” or “likely” in violation of federal law.

Scott MacFarlane of CBS News reported Tuesday that the DOJ is aware of a letter from former federal prosecutors and former Republican-appointed government officials asking for a “review” of “payments that are being made by the Elon Musk-founded America PAC to voters in Pennsylvania and other states that experts say raise serious questions under applicable law.”

MacFarlane added that the DOJ did not say whether it would launch a probe, just that it received the letter calling for one.

The letter

The Washington Post reported Monday that the former federal prosecutors and ex-GOP-appointed officials who want a DOJ review of Musk’s effort include Donald Ayer, the former U.S. deputy attorney general under then President George H.W. Bush, Watergate era prosecutor Philip Lacovara, former New Jersey Gov. Christine Todd Whitman, former Trump administration national security official Olivia Troye, and former FEC Chairman Trevor Potter.

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