Musk might have violated federal employee ethics law, lawyers say
Source: GovExec.com
While he is not technically its leader, Elon Musk, the world’s richest person who has been named a special government employee, is spearheading the Trump administration’s initiative to shrink the federal government that has resulted in mass firings across agencies.
Nextgov/FCW has reported that Musk might run afoul of federal ethics rules, if he doesn’t recuse himself from decisions that could affect his financial interests, because his company, SpaceX, has received billions in government contracts.
Lawyers who Government Executive spoke to argued that Musk might have already violated the Hatch Act, a law that limits the political activity of government employees, including special ones. Any penalty, however, is unlikely because President Donald Trump is trying to fire the head of the office that enforces that law and historically top officials have not been punished for breaking its prohibitions.
When Musk wore a black “Make America Great Again” baseball cap in the Oval Office during an executive order signing on Feb. 11, he might have committed a Hatch Act infraction.
Read more: https://www.govexec.com/oversight/2025/02/musk-might-have-violated-federal-employee-ethics-law-lawyers-say/403177/
At the meantime, Trump fired the Head of the Office of Special Counsel, so that nobody can be prosecuted for Hatch Act violations. No head, no findings if investigations can be released.
It’s a continuing criminal enterprise.
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