{"id":2358569,"date":"2024-10-23T19:46:55","date_gmt":"2024-10-23T23:46:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/doj-warns-elon-musk-that-1m-giveaway-could-be-illegal-report-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2024-10-23T19:50:12","modified_gmt":"2024-10-23T23:50:12","slug":"doj-warns-elon-musk-that-1m-giveaway-could-be-illegal-report-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/doj-warns-elon-musk-that-1m-giveaway-could-be-illegal-report-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"DOJ warns Elon Musk that $1M giveaway could be illegal: Report &#8211; Washington Examiner"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdoj-warns-elon-musk-that-1m-giveaway-could-be-illegal-report-washington-examiner%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2358569&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Elon Musk&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/marriott-att-airbnbheres-the-list-of-corporations-announcing-they-wont-donate-to-gop-lawmakers-who-objected-to-electoral-votes-from-contested-states\/\" title=\"Marriott, AT&amp;T, Airbnb\u2026Here\u2019s The List Of Corporations Announcing They Won\u2019t Donate To GOP Lawmakers Who Objected To Electoral Votes From Contested States\">political action committee<\/a> has received a warning from the Department of \u2063Justice (DOJ) regarding a $1 million giveaway he announced, which could <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">potentially violate federal laws ahead<\/a> of the 2024 election. The giveaway was intended to incentivize voters in battleground states to \u200csign a\u200d petition\u200c supporting \u200cFirst and Second Amendment rights. However, legal experts\u2064 have raised concerns, noting that \u2064offering money to influence\u2063 voting or registration is illegal. Musk&#8217;s initiative focuses solely on seven swing states, which \u2063could lead to further legal \u200cscrutiny. A former DOJ attorney highlighted that the circumstances surrounding Musk&#8217;s plan \u200cdo not favor him, characterizing the situation as legally problematic.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">DOJ warns Elon Musk that $1M giveaway could be illegal: Report<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tpd-featured-video\">\n<div id=\"Brid_21235\" class=\"brid\" style=\"width:1280;height:720;\"> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/elon-musk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Elon Musk\">Elon Musk<\/a>&lsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mark-kelly-says-hes-a-criminal-justice-moderate-his-campaign-took-350k-from-a-soros-backed-defund-group-2\/\" title=\"Mark Kelly Says He\u2019s a Criminal Justice Moderate. His Campaign Took 0K From a Soros-Backed Defund Group.\">political action committee received<\/a> a warning from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/justice-department\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Elon Musk\">Department of Justice<\/a> that the $1 million giveaway he is offering in battleground states ahead of the 2024 election could be illegal, according to a new report.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>The DOJ wrote the warning <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/10\/20\/politics\/elon-musk-voter-giveaway-legal-questions\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>letter<\/a> to Musk&rsquo;s organization sometime in the last few days, according to CNN. The revelation came after the tech billionaire announced on Saturday while stumping for Trump at an event in Pennsylvania that he would give away $1 million to random voters who signed his super PAC&rsquo;s petition in support of constitutional freedoms. <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We want to try to get over a million, maybe two million voters in the battleground states to sign the petition in support of the First and Second Amendment,&rdquo; Musk said on Saturday. &ldquo;We are going to be awarding $1 million randomly to people who have signed the petition every day from now until the election.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The move by Musk was met with immediate concerns from legal experts, who noted that it is against federal law to pay someone to vote or to register to vote. Musk&rsquo;s giveaway, they noted, was advertised to registered voters, though the process of signing the petition does not appear to check for voter registration status.<\/p>\n<p>Musk offered the giveaway to voters in seven swing states only, a point that David Becker, executive director of the Center for Election and Innovation Research, said would help prosecutors if they wanted to press charges against Musk.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;It&rsquo;s designed to only affect political outcomes in seven states. Voters in California, voters in Texas are not eligible for this promotion,&rdquo; Becker told reporters on a call this week. &ldquo;This is not a particularly close call.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Becker, a former DOJ trial attorney who specialized in voting law, added that &ldquo;the facts are not good for Mr. Musk.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&ldquo;If this was only for data collection and it wasn&rsquo;t intended to influence the outcome of the election, why only the seven swing states? Why was this done in Pennsylvania right before the registration deadline?&rdquo; he asked.<\/p>\n<p>Musk has thus far given away $1 million to three different recipients. He announced his most recent winner, Andy from North Carolina, on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Congratulations, Andy! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/QaLyMZOJvk\">https:\/\/t.co\/QaLyMZOJvk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1848924538404503890?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 23, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If Musk is unresponsive to the DOJ&rsquo;s letter, the DOJ could escalate matters. A legal fight could ensue, and recipients of the million-dollar prizes could end up being forced to return their winnings.<\/p>\n<p>An email associated with Musk&rsquo;s super PAC did not return a request for comment, and neither did the DOJ.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_21235\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"playlist\":\"21235\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DOJ cautions Elon Musk that $1M giveaway may be illegal<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":2358570,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Elon-Musk-1.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[43574,7076,32192],"class_list":["post-2358569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner","tag-1m-giveaway","tag-doj","tag-elon-musk"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Elon-Musk-1.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2358569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/49"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2358569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2358569\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2358570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2358569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2358569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2358569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}