Musk Gets PlainSite Founder’s Pay-for-Votes Allegations Tossed

Elon Musk successfully defended against an allegation that his promise to pay $1 million to swing state voters who signed a petition for his political action committee was an illegal lottery system.

Aaron Greenspan failed to show that the pay-for-votes promise was sufficiently related to Greenspan’s underlying racketeering complaint against Musk, said Judge Maxine M. Chesney of the US District Court of the Northern District of California.

There must be a relationship between the injury claimed in the motion for injunctive relief and the conduct asserted in the underlying complaint, Chesney wrote, citing US Court of Appeals for the Ninth ...