Democrats require studies on musk about possible criminal corruption US messages

On Monday, the leading Democrats investigated an investigation of a possible criminal corruption with Elon Musk, the Tech billionaire and the richest man in the world that Donald Trump commissioned to upgrade the federal government.

The investigation should “include the decision of the Federal Aviation Administration, to cancel a 2.4 billion dollar contract with Verizon to improve air traffic control communication and to pay … Musks Starlink to manage the US air dream”, wrote the senators Chris van Hollen, Richard Blumenthal and Elizabeth Warren to Pam Bondi, General. Mitch tank, acting inscrecing.

“We ask that the general inspector's office of the Ministry of Transport and the Ministry of Justice examine the scope of Mr. Musk's activities at FAA,” said the senators.

An investigation, according to the letter, would determine whether Musk “took part in his capacity as a special employee in the White House … in a certain matter in which he has a financial interest that violates the interest statute of the criminal conflict”.

After a series of accidents and accidents, a number of accidents, some fatal, the letter and two more, were made available exclusively to the Guardian.

In a long letter to Susie Wiles, Trump's chief of staff of the White House, the three senators were accompanied by Jeff Merkley from Oregon and Maryland Jamie Raskin's congress, to quote the powers of congress surveillance when they ask that “written assurance [the administration] The worst cases of a long list of alleged conflicts of interest and corruption, which result from Trump's first two months in the power, will immediately.

In a third letter, Gene Dodaro, the General Disengizer, claimed an investigation by the responsibility for the responsibility of government responsibility as to whether the appointment of the former Congress Member of Georgia, Doug Collins, is undermined both the US Department of Veterans Affairs and the Office of Government Ethics between the border.

Musk's great prosperity was achieved by companies such as Tesla, X and SpaceX, which does the Starlink satellite -Internet technology. After donating hundreds of millions for Trump's election campaign, he took over the so -called “Department of Government Efficiency” or Doge to reduce efforts, federal budget budgets and staff.

The Democrats dealt with Bondi and Behm and said that Musk, as the government of the government, should “be subject to the rules of the federal government's conflicts of interest” and “use his government role in order to benefit his own private company”.

Referring to the Washington Post, Bloomberg News and Rolling Stone, the Democrats said: “Reports show that a staff from SpaceX, the parent company of Starlink, have already started to work at FAA.

“In addition, Starlink has started to send his hardware to the FAA, although the company has declared that it provides the agency for free satellite kits. Sources, however, indicate that the FAA orders the employees to “find tens of million dollars for a Starlink deal”.

SpaceX has called reports on his FAA business as “wrong” and added: “Starlink is a possible partial solution for an aging system. There is no effort or intention that Starlink will take over an existing contract – that is only Fud “, which means” fear, uncertainty and doubt “.

In February, Musk said in a joint oval office appearance with Trump: “All of our actions are fully public. So when you see something you say, wait a second, hey, you know what … it may seem that there is a conflict there, it is not as if people are shy to say that. You will say it immediately. “

Trump said that if he thought Musk had a conflict, “we would not do this segment or look in this area”.

Allegations of corruption and conflicts of interest that take Trump have been Legion since he joined politics in 2015.

In their letter to Wiles, the Democrats said: “Despite President Trump's promise to fight for working families, he appointed a number of billionaires and industries and brought them into positions to enrich themselves at the expense of ordinary Americans.”

Last week, Trump used the lawn of the White House to try to lead customers to a muscle business, Tesla, in which the share price in the middle of the discomfort about musculoskeleton costs and outrage over the behavior, including the giving styles and abuse of US allies.

The Democrats called Musk Trump's “Co-President” and accused him of relentlessly attacked and disarming him, “federal authorities who regulate its companies, even if his companies have benefited from billions in federal contracts”.

The Democrats said “Corruption scandals were a feature of the first term of the first term of President Trump” and listed potential scandals in the second time, including the appointment of lobbyists who monitor their own industries and made it possible to give their adult children investments in their own sectors. “

The quoted instances included Trump, who increased his own social media platform and activities in cryptocurrency. Further expansion of its foreign and domestic real estate stocks, including the experiment, to buy back the former Trump Hotel in the Pennsylvania Avenue; And to use with his house in Mar-A-Lago in Florida as a “well-oiled pay-to-play machine”.

The Democrats noticed Trump's dismissal of the director of the Office of Government Ethics, a first in the US story, and his dismissal of “at least 17 general inspectors”, independent department guards without notifying the congress as required. And his attempt to relieve the office of the special advisor.

Despite everything, the Democrats said, Trump's decision to “give up” power to Musk, his most in constant step.

“Since President Trump started his office,” the Democrats told Wiles:

“In the meantime, Musks are companies that have already received at least $ 38 billion in federal financing to compete for new federal contracts.”

In the letter, a motivated purchase of Tesla vehicles by the Foreign Ministry and Musks attempt to buy Openai was also aware of “insisting agencies increase their trust in artificial intelligence”.

“Musk did all of this without disclosing the public's financial interests,” said the Democrats.

The Democrats said that Trump could still take steps to “reverse the course and put our national interests before his personal business”. These steps included the re -hiring of fire guards, the review of the candidates for conflicts of interest and the revocation of the “power to benefit from his efforts to manipulate the executive department to his own advantage”, and had to “release its financial disclosure immediately so that the public can understand its potential conflicts of interest”.

The Democrats found a deadline of March 31 and asked Liles to answer six questions.

She wants Trump, she asked, “all state guard dogs that he supposedly fired, and … protect their independence from political interference”; Do not undertake “to appoint additional civil servants [with] direct conflicts of interest that cannot be solved … according to the existing Ethics Act ”; “A promise of ethics” for new candidates; “End to sell from his private business interests, as every former president did in the modern newspaper”; “End to disclose his tax returns from the past three years”; And require Musk to “release his financial disclosure publicly”?

Trump, Musk and Wiles did not comment immediately.