During the peak of the 2024 presidential campaign, Elon Musk promised a bonus of $ 100 to sign a petition to support the rights of freedom of expression and weapons. The billionaire also offered $ 47 to anyone who hired a signed petition – and the payment increased to $ 100 with the approaching election day.
Now, Canvasser suits Mr. Musk’s America Pac, who raised the signatures in the state of Pennsylvania, the executive authority, saying that Mr. Musk failed to pay him for $ 20,000 of signatures. The worker, who filed a lawsuit on Tuesday, as Du for private reasons, accused Mr. Musk of violating the contracts and failed to submit his promises to pay by November 30.
The lawsuit, which was filed as a collective rule against Mr. Musk and Super Pac at the American Provincial Court of the Eastern Region in Pennsylvania, will allow the prosecutors who signed a petition or collected signatures from others to request payment. Many other workers may join MR. Musk’s Pac to the case, according to the deposit.
Mr. Musk and a lawyer representing Super Pac did not immediately respond to the requests for comment.
America Pak says on its website that it has paid the majority of people who fell on the Pennsylvania petition.
“Creent with the payment goal on the 30th of November that we set for ourselves, America PAC has already sent the Great Mail of checks due to the qualified references and the petition”, The Super PAC’s The question page often circulated He says. “If you haven’t received payment yet, this does not necessarily mean that you will not do that.”
Payment promises to Mr. Musk were part of a broader strategy to bend his wealth heading to election day. In the last days of the campaign, he intensified efforts by promising to enter the two positions in a daily gift of one million dollars. The Philadelphia province’s lawyer stabbed the gift, describing it as an illegal lottery, but a judge It allowed her to continue After Mr. Musk’s team argued that the winners were not chosen by chance, but based on their personal story and the “convenience” that will be paid.
Mr. Musk continued to use his wealth to motivate voters to support the conservative reasons. During a visit to Wisconsin on Sunday, Mr. Musk delivered two checks for a million dollars to local voters who signed a petition supporting a conservative candidate for the state’s Supreme Court. (For 12 hours, Mr. Musk floats Poisoned plan To open the lottery only to the residents of Wisconsin who have already voted, but they retreated in the face of legal scrutiny.)
