Democrats demand investigation into Musk over possible criminal corruption
Source: The Guardian
Mon 17 Mar 2025 06.00 EDT
Last modified on Mon 17 Mar 2025 06.02 EDT
Leading Democrats on Monday demanded an investigation of possible criminal corruption involving Elon Musk, the tech billionaire and world’s richest man tasked by Donald Trump with slashing the federal government.
The investigation should involve “the Federal Aviation Administration’s decision to cancel a $2.4bn contract with Verizon to upgrade air traffic control communications, and to pay … Musk’s Starlink to help manage US airspace”, senators Chris Van Hollen, Richard Blumenthal and Elizabeth Warren wrote to Pam Bondi, the attorney general, and Mitch Behm, acting inspector general of the transportation department. “We ask that the Department of Transportation’s Office of Inspector General and the Department of Justice investigate the scope of Mr Musk’s activities at the FAA,” the senators said.
An investigation, the letter said, would determine whether Musk, “in his capacity as a special government employee in the White House … has participated in any particular matter in which he has a financial interest, which would violate the criminal conflict-of-interest statute”. Sent amid widespread concern over the state of the US air traffic control system under Trump, after a string of crashes and accidents, some fatal, the letter and two others were provided exclusively to the Guardian.
In a lengthy letter to Susie Wiles, Trump’s White House chief of staff, the three senators were joined by Jeff Merkley of Oregon and the Maryland congressman Jamie Raskin in citing powers of congressional oversight when they asked to “provide written assurances that [the administration] will immediately remediate the worst” instances of a long list of alleged conflicts of interest and corruption arising from Trump’s first two months in power.
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/17/democrats-elon-musk-investigation
Sen. Warren, et. al PRESS RELEASE - Warren, Raskin, Blumenthal, Lawmakers Push White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles on Trump Administration Corruption
Link LETTER to Susie Wiles (PDF) - https://www.warren.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/letter_to_trump_administration_on_corruption.pdf
Link to LETTERS to Investigators (PDF) - https://www.warren.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/letters_to_investigators.pdf
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