(Reuters) -The Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office filed a lawsuit seeking to stop a political action committee controlled by billionaire Elon Musk from awarding $1 million to registered U.S. voters in battleground states, CNBC reported on Monday.
A spokesperson for the prosecutor’s office in Pennsylvania’s largest city did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
In response to a request for comment, a spokesperson for Musk’s America PAC, which backs Republican former President Donald Trump, sent a link to the group’s latest post on X, which was published after news of the lawsuit.
The post identified a Michigan resident who received the $1 million prize, and said additional awards would be handed out every day until the Nov. 5 election.
The Justice Department has sent a letter to America PAC warning that the billionaire Tesla chief executive’s giveaways may violate federal law, CNN reported last week, citing people briefed on the matter.
Pennsylvania is one of the swing states where the presidential election between Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris, a Democrat, is set to be decided.
(Reporting by Rhea Rose Abraham in Bengaluru, Luc Cohen in New York and Alexandra Ulmer in San Francisco; editing by Jonathan Oatis and Alistair Bell)
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