Judge Throws Out Vote Payment Allegations Against Elon Musk
Musk’s payments to registered voters are not related to a previously filed lawsuit, the judge ruled.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/judge-t...PozVoFjPvQ51XOn
By Zachary Stieber
10/25/2024
Updated: 10/25/2024

A federal judge has turned away allegations that billionaire Elon Musk violated the law when he started giving $1 million away to registered voters.

California resident Aaron Greenspan in a lawsuit filed over the summer accused Musk of violating state laws and the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act. In a recent emergency motion, Greenspan, who founded the company PlainSite, said Musk’s newly announced million-dollar giveaways to voters in swing states violated federal law that prohibits paying or offering to pay people to either register to vote or vote.

Greenspan said that Musk, who has endorsed former President Donald Trump, should not be “permitted to continually violate federal law and swing the election.” He asked the court to order Musk to stop violating the law.

U.S. District Judge Maxine M. Chesney on Oct. 22 denied the motion.

She pointed to a decision from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit that concluded there must be a relationship between an injury claimed in a motion for injunctive relief and the conduct asserted in the underlying lawsuit.

“Here, the injury claimed is unrelated to the conduct alleged in the complaint and the relief sought therein,” Chesney said.-- excerpt, rest at link above --