A Pennsylvania judge ruled Monday that Elon Musk’s daily $1 million giveaway to voters can continue, in a victory for the tech billionaire and Donald Trump ally.
Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas Judge Angelo Foglietta rejected arguments from the city’s district attorney, Larry Krasner, who argued that the sweepstakes was an illegal lottery violating state law and must be halted immediately.
The ruling came shortly after an all-day hearing in a packed courtroom in downtown Philadelphia. The hearing was heated at times, with Krasner’s team calling Musk’s political team “shysters” who are running a “scam” and “grift” – and Musk’s team accusing the district attorney of pursuing a “dreadful violation of constitutional rights.”
Crucial context, the reason for the legality:
I checked the wording and it appears it never said the choice was going to be random! Devious.struck, thanks. It’s false advertising then.
Which is civil rather than criminal.
I wonder if people that participated in this lottery will start filing suit.
Yeah so they randomly choose people, then pick from those people to announce later on and boom no longer random because loophole…
We really are the land of shitheads jumping through loopholes…