The federal laws Musk is violating are clearly shown in the well-respected Election Law Blog from Dr. Rick Hasen at UCLA. The exact parts Elon Musk is violating are bolded in the election law text. Go read it again and educate yourself.
Trump Supporters’ Fake Stories About Harris and Walz Flood the ‘For You’ Page on X X has truly become a garbage heap since Trump donor Elon Musk bought the site. https://gizmodo.com/trump-supporter...d-walz-flood-the-for-you-page-on-x-2000514522
Gizmodo was always trash. Now they claim that the garbage is something else. It is compelling. You are just parroting fake news resources all the time.
Yep... Musk and his subordinates got a letter from the DOJ stating his PAC is violating the law and must stop. DOJ sends Musk PAC warning letter DOJ alerted Elon Musk America PAC lawyer of possible penalties for $1 million voter lottery https://www.24sight.news/p/scoop-doj-sends-musk-pac-warning The Justice Department’s head of election crimes sent a warning letter to Elon Musk’s America PAC Monday, alerting it that it was a crime to knowingly offer anything of value to register to vote or vote, a person familiar with the warning letter told 24sight News. Robert Heberle, the head of the Justice Department’s election crimes branch, wrote in the brief warning letter to America PAC lawyer Chris Gober, that offering anything of value to influence voting was in violation of U.S. law barring payments to sway votes. The warning letter did not specify any immediate legal action, according to the person familiar with the DOJ warning to Musk, but it did spell out the penalties for breaking U.S. voting laws, including possible imprisonment of up to five years. Musk, an ultra-rich Trump mega-donor, has been offering $1 million to registered voters in swing states via a sweepstakes-style petition in support of the First and Second amendments. Musk has been touting the voting sweepstakes on his super PAC’s account on X.com and at rallies. Legal experts have said that Musk’s requirement that sweepstakes entrants show they have registered to vote very likely breaks U.S. voting laws, as longtime election law expert Rick Hasen wrote on his blog Saturday. A copy of the sweepstakes-style petition posted on Musk’s site reviewed by 24sight News Wednesday includes a requirement that entrants show they are registered to vote in one of the seven key battleground states. A spokesperson for the Justice Department declined comment Wednesday. Musk’s America PAC lawyer, Gober, did not return calls or an email seeking comment. America PAC officials did not immediately provide comment Wednesday afternoon. However, in previous coverage, America PAC officials have said the $1 million lottery for the petition is clearly legal. *** This is a breaking story and will be updated. Check back for more at 24sight.news.
sooner or later musk will do something that makes him go to prison. there is no doubt about that. this guy is borderline-... whatever.
https://edition.cnn.com/2024/10/23/business/elon-musk-nazi-jokes/index.html Any other CEO would have been fired for what Elon Musk just said Analysis by Allison Morrow, CNN 4 minute read Updated 9:36 AM EDT, Wed October 23, 2024 Part of the deal with being CEO is that you get a big paycheck in exchange for being the public face of a company. For most people, at most companies, that means, at minimum, trying not to make an ass of yourself in public. Tweeting a Holocaust joke, for example, might very well get you booted. Punching down at marginalized communities? Also a bad look. But the same rules don’t apply if you’re the richest person on the planet, running companies stacked with cronies. ICYMI: On Monday, Elon Musk invoked the names of two German Nazis in a tweet while simultaneously disparaging modern pronoun conventions — attempting, as he so often does, to make a joke. (I’m not repeating the text here — not because it’s profane, but mostly because it’s just not funny.) For context, Musk was responding to a post about a Der Spiegel article that compared him to a media mogul who helped Hitler climb to power. It was hardly Musk’s first, and certainly not his most offensive, statement involving the Third Reich or their White supremacist progeny. Just last month, Musk promoted Tucker Carlson’s widely condemned interview with a Nazi apologist who said the murder of Jews in concentration camps was “humane” and that Winston Churchill was the “chief villain” of World War II. Musk later deleted his X post that called the interview “very interesting” and “worth watching,” per the Independent. Representatives for X and Tesla didn’t respond to CNN’s request for comment. Musk rarely deletes his social media posts, no matter how inflammatory. Also not deleted: the one where he reposted the “interesting observation” that women are incapable of independent thought and that only “alpha males” should make policy decisions. And while he once apologized for his post endorsing an antisemitic conspiracy theory — the one that sparked an exodus of advertisers from X — he never deleted it, either. The point is: Any other CEO of a major company could expect to be shown the door after airing any one these ideas. Or at least that was the case as recently as 2018, when more CEOs were forced out for “ethical lapses” than poor financial performance, according to a PwC study. So why is Musk special? It’s partly because of the way he’s structured his wealth and his companies. Musk is the single biggest individual shareholder at Tesla, the only publicly traded business he owns. The second-largest individual shareholder is his brother, Kimbal Musk, who sits on the board. In fact, the entire Tesla board of directors is stacked with Musk allies who lack sufficient independence, according to a Delaware judge who in 2023 overturned Musk’s $55 billion pay package. In other words, the only folks with a fiduciary duty to keep Musk in line are, according to Judge Kathaleen McCormick, not exactly disinterested parties. But even bullish Tesla investors are starting to get nervous about Musk’s rhetoric online and his “dark MAGA” turn, which could lead to some awkward moments on Wednesday’s earnings call. “The Musk/Trump dynamic has added to the agita of Tesla investors and it’s not helping the demand issues in the US,” Dan Ives, managing director at Wedbush Securities, told me. “Musk becoming more political is not bullish for the Tesla brand.” The other major source of Musk’s wealth is SpaceX, a rocket manufacturer that’s been tapped by NASA to resupply the International Space Station. There are no public shareholders to worry about there, as SpaceX is a private company with virtually zero competition in the market. (Technically, it competes for space contracts with Boeing. But given Boeing’s disastrous last five-ish years, SpaceX probably isn’t sweating the competition too much — especially after NASA called on SpaceX to return two Boeing astronauts from the space station after their space ship broke down.) Litigation is a key part of the Musk playbook when it comes to any person or group challenging him or his businesses. Angry at advertisers for leaving his Nazi-tolerating social media site, Musk sued a nonprofit ad group out of existence. In fact, Musk and his companies have filed at least 23 lawsuits in federal courts alone since July of 2023, according to Fortune, targeting “competitors, startups, law firms, watchdog groups, individuals, the state of California, federal agencies, and pop star Grimes, who is the mother of three of his children.” Bottom line: When you have virtually unlimited money, you have practically unlimited power to play offense – in court, in the boardroom or on social media.