It was almost too good to be real: register in a vote in Pennsylvania and signing a petition to support the first and second amendments before the presidential election in 2024 and get a check of $ 100 from the richest person on earth.
And for more cash, convince others to do the same.
“Make money to support something you already believe!” Elon Musk wrote in the October post to XThe social media platform it has.
There were legal challenges, including from the district prosecutor of Philadelphia Larry Krasner. But they didn’t go anywhere.
Everything that is left for Elon Musk and America Pac is a pony of money. But according to the novel federal lawsuit, they did not pay everything that is guilty.
. complaintCompleted on Tuesday in the eastern district of Pennsylvania on behalf of the unnamed inhabitant of Bucks, accuses Musk and the Conservative Political Committee of violation of the contract and the lack of fulfillment of the promise.
Musk, who is a billionaire general director of Tesla and Spacex, as well as the owner of the X, vigorously conducted a campaign to President Donald Trump in Pennsylvania, and is currently supervising the government department, which is responsible for the shock of the federal government and its workforce. And he became one of Trump’s closest advisors, although Musk will report to leave his role in administration in the coming weeks, Politico said the sources inside the White House.
The lawyers of the inhabitant of Bucks asked the court to exploit the nickname, because their client “justifies the fear of revenge”, and “Elon Musk also has a reputation of revenge on those that in his opinion hurt him”, in accordance with the court application.
A resident of Bucks, represented in the lawsuit, worked as a canvasser for America Pac leading to the presidential election (from October PAC paid the Canvasser to $ 30 per hour). By knocking on the door, he deprived the signatures to the obligation, overalls. Canvasser is allegedly owed to over USD 20,000 after paying an undisclosed amount for some of his instructions.
Canvasser has repeatedly contacted PAC and made “many attempts to receive full payment for his instructions, but to no avail,” says the complaint.
Since Bucks Man was an employee of America Pac, the complaint also accuses the organization of violation of the law regarding payments and receipt of wages and charging Pennsylvania for not paying for the command.
“Our client relied on this promise because he believed in Elon, but unfortunately this promise was not preserved,” said Shannon Liss-Riordan, a lawyer from Boston, who lodged a complaint. “It seems that the promise has also been broken for many others.”
The lawsuit is the proposed collective proceedings on behalf of all registered voters who signed a petition or managed that someone else signed it, but did not receive payment. The complaint does not say how many people owe money or how much.
Spokesman Andrew Romeo “undertakes to pay for each legal petition” and has already paid Canvassers tens of millions of dollars.
“Although we do not know who this reason” John Doe “is and we cannot talk about their special circumstances, we can say that we are also involved in the eradication of fraud and we have the right to suspend payments for fraudsters,” Romeo said in a statement.
America Pac said on his website that it provided signatures and its purpose was to extract payments by November 30. People may not receive payments if the information about the petition was not in line with the voter files. Others were delayed because of “suspicious bot activity”.
If payments exceed USD 600, IRS requires the recipient to complete the W9 tax form to be able to receive funds, America Pac says.
None of these situations concern a man of Bucks, who filed a lawsuit, said Jeremy Abay, a lawyer based in New Jersey for Canvasser.
“Avoiding debts under the guise of eating fraud is Modus Operandi Mr. Musk,” said Abay.
Musk tried to play in the presidential election in 2024, when in October he offered cash prizes for people to register to vote.
The original offer was 47 USD – because Trump was 47. President – sign or direct the registered voter to sign the petition of America Pac to support the first and second amendments. Then Pac had a “special offer” for voters in Pennsylvania – $ 100. In addition, Musk said that he would randomly choose the winners of the signatories from a prize worth $ 1 million, which some voters received in the town halls sponsored by America Pac throughout the state.
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Those who received the money were delighted. But petition and controls created a mysterious scenario when almost a dozen Pennsylvania – including Some democrats – Inquiter said that they received $ 100 checks without signing a petition or reference to it. As a result, about 20 complaints received the Office of the Prosecutor General in Pennsylvania.
It was only one of the Musk pro-trumps on the Presidential Campaign Trail 2024. Tesla and SpaceX general director organized the Town Hall at the Ridley High School in Delaware in October (the petition was a ticket for this event). It was the first of the town hall series in the entire community, the key state of battle in the presidential competition.
His intensive efforts – spending $ 277 million to choose Trump in 2024 and establish a “war” in Pittsburgh – admitted him the gratitude of some Republicans from Pennsylvania and Trump, who now holds Musk as a close advisor.
