Wealthy individuals, including billionaires and trillionaires, are not immune from legal accountability when they hold government positions; 18 USC 208 prohibits special government employees from working on matters affecting their financial interests, and this law extends to their spouses, children, business partners, and organizations where they serve as officers or directors, meaning that even the world's richest people can face criminal penalties including up to 5 years in prison for violations.
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Added:Uh, this is just a reminder that the very first trillionaire's activities indulged was a violation of the United States criminal codes. He's a criminal.
When I say criminal, I'm not being hypothetical about it.
Let me show you.
18 USC 208 is a criminal law. It prohibits special government employees from working on matters which they have a financial interest. And we know that Elon Musk was working on cutting agencies that financially impact his businesses. Pay attention to note that this law also applies to the employee, the employee's spouse, which is Elon, his spouse, his children, his business partners, and organizations where he serves an officer, director, trustee, partner, employee, and prospective employers. That means SpaceX, Tesla.
Just by the fact of Elon working on those. And before you tell me that billionaires like Elon or trillionaire like Elon won't go to jail, let me remind Here's a graph of billionaires United States that have actually been sentenced prison and some are serving their prison sentence right now, including Bernie Madoff. And it goes all the way down. All right, so Leona Helmsley was in there as well.
He can go to jail. I did a whole video on my YouTube channel about Elon's crimes and the violations and I go in specific details. And if you liked it, check out the thumbnail. It looks like this. Here's a quick teaser.
>> How How long do you think my prison sentence is going to be?
>> Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency has set up Well, everything that Doge does is an open book.
>> Because Elon Musk currently is the subject of multiple lawsuits in the domestically in the United States and abroad and some of them carry criminal penalties of 1 year in jail if it's a misdemeanor and 5 years in jail if he's charged as a felony.
>> In 2024, Elon Musk and his related companies were being investigated by the Department of Defense, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Department of Justice, the Security Exchange Commission, the Federal Aviation Administration, NASA, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the Federal Election Commission, Environmental Protection Agency, the Food and Drug Administration, the National Labor Relations Board, and Department of Transportation.
>> Musk forms this PAC that was going to raise money for Donald Trump's presidency.
>> can only advise. They cannot make decisions like cutting >> The question is under what legal authority are they acting?
That's the issue, Elon.
>> And 5 years in prison if it's a felony.
>> something in February that the Democrats wrote a letter and say, "Hey, Elon, did you do your conflict of interest disclosure?"
>> So, every single time he made any decisions to every single agency, every single cut, every single firing that impacts him >> It's a violation.
>> They knew this.
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