Elon Musk Action: The federal judge on Wednesday ordered billionaires Elon Musk to face the action of voters who claimed that the richest man in the world was deceiving them to sign a petition to support the US Constitution to gain $ 1 million a day.
US district judge Robert Pitman in Austin, Texas, said Jacqueline McAferta claimed that Musk and his political action committee, America Pac, unauthorized to share personal identification data during 2024.
America Pac was founded by Elon Musk to support the presidential run of Republican candidate Donald Trump.
McAferta, the inhabitants of Arizona, said Musk and America Pac had asked voters in seven countries to sign their petition for promise that recipients of $ 1 million would be collected randomly, just like a lottery, while voters had no real chance to collect.
She mentioned that the voters who signed also had to state their names, addresses, e -mail addresses and phone numbers.
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Musk pointed out various “red flags” as evidence that he does not work an illegal lottery when he requests release.
He said that they include the claim that recipients of $ 1 million were “collected to earn” money, and it was expected to become a spokesperson for America PAC, which undermines the idea that the payment was the “price”, the press agency reported.
However, the judge noted that another statement suggests that the defendants “grant” $ 1 million, which means that money could be “won”.
“It is likely that the plaintiff justifically relied on these statements to believe that the defendants objectively offer her a chance to enter a random lottery-when it is not subjectively intended to do,” said Pitman, who was appointed on the bench in 2014.
Musk also rejected the idea that petition signators were damaged by providing their contact details. Pitman mentioned that an expert in mediation of political data could testify to the value of this information for voters in the key states of the battlefield. This court was filed on November 5, 2024, the day of the elections.
The day before, Judge Philadelphia refused to stop Muskův reveal and said that the city’s main prosecutor did not show that it was an illegal lottery.
(With Reuters inputs.)
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