Elon Musk ordered to give deposition as 'vote buying' scheme bites him [View all]
Source: Raw Story
June 25, 2026 2:43PM ET
Elon Musk told voters they had a random shot at $1 million. Now a judge has ordered him to answer for it under oath.
U.S. Magistrate Judge Susan Hightower in Austin ordered Musk to sit for a deposition — sworn, on-the-record questioning by opposing lawyers — in a fraud lawsuit brought by two Arizona women who say his political action committee, America PAC, tricked them into handing over their personal information.
Musk made the promise at an October 2024 town hall in Pennsylvania. America PAC would give away $1 million every day until the election, he said, to a registered voter chosen "randomly" from those who signed a petition backing the First and Second Amendments.
It wasn't random. In a February deposition, America PAC's director, Christopher Young, admitted the winners were handpicked — chosen, he said, to be good "spokespeople" for the PAC. "It was not the words I would have chosen," Young testified about Musk's use of the word "randomly."
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