Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner is suing to halt Elon Musk’s $1 million giveaway to swing state voters.
The suit, filed on Monday in the Common Pleas Court in Philadelphia, accused the tech billionaire and his America PAC supporting former President Donald Trump’s candidacy of “running an illegal lottery in Philadelphia, as well as throughout Pennsylvania.”
The case is based on Pennsylvania’s lottery and consumer protection laws. Krasner, a Democrat, clarified in the complaint that is was not about state and federal laws that prohibit vote-buying.
“Running an illegal lottery and violating consumer protections is ample basis for an injunction and concluding that America PAC and Musk must be stopped, immediately, before the upcoming Presidential Election on November 5,” Krasner told the court in his suit. “That is because America PAC and Musk hatched their illegal lottery scheme to influence voters in that election.”…