{"id":107607,"date":"2024-10-23T21:05:46","date_gmt":"2024-10-23T21:05:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/doj-warns-elon-musk-his-1m-giveaway-to-registered-voters-may-violate-federal-law\/"},"modified":"2024-10-23T21:05:46","modified_gmt":"2024-10-23T21:05:46","slug":"doj-warns-elon-musk-his-1m-giveaway-to-registered-voters-may-violate-federal-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/doj-warns-elon-musk-his-1m-giveaway-to-registered-voters-may-violate-federal-law\/","title":{"rendered":"DOJ warns Elon Musk his $1M giveaway to registered voters may violate federal law"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-10-23\/Getty_ElonMusk_102324.jpg\" alt><figcaption>Photo by Anna Moneymaker\/Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>(WASHINGTON, D.C.) &#8212; The Justice Department has sent a letter to tech billionaire Elon Musk&#8217;s America PAC warning that his $1 million sweepstakes giveaway to registered voters in swing states may violate federal law, a source familiar with the matter confirmed to ABC News Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The letter from the Election Crimes Branch of the DOJ&#8217;s Public Integrity Section was sent to Musk&#8217;s PAC in recent days, the source said.<\/p>\n<p>Musk, who has been campaigning for former President Donald Trump, announced the lottery-style giveaway over the weekend, pledging to give away $1 million a day to a randomly selected swing-state resident who agrees to sign his PAC&#8217;s petition supporting the First and Second amendments.<\/p>\n<p>To qualify, the person must be a registered voter &#8212; leading experts to question whether the lottery could violate federal law that bars individuals from paying people to register to vote.<\/p>\n<p>As of Tuesday, Musk had given away three $1 million checks.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s unclear whether the Justice Department has determined that the giveaway is outright illegal.<\/p>\n<p>The independent news site 24Sight News was first to report news of the letter Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Officials with the Justice Department declined to comment to ABC News.<\/p>\n<p>Representatives for Musk and his America PAC did not immediately respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo by Anna Moneymaker\/Getty Images (WASHINGTON, D.C.) &#8212; The Justice Department has sent a letter to tech billionaire Elon Musk&#8217;s America PAC warning that his $1 million sweepstakes giveaway to registered voters in swing states may violate federal law, a source familiar with the matter confirmed to ABC News Wednesday.<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/doj-warns-elon-musk-his-1m-giveaway-to-registered-voters-may-violate-federal-law\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[156,31,2],"tags":[273,271,276,274,270,123,275,133,124,272,102,103],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107607"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107607\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}