“The evidence will not include evidence that the defendant performed lobbying activity in exchange for this compensation,” Weiss’ team wrote.
“Rather the evidence will show the defendant performed almost no work in exchange for the millions of dollars he received from these entities,” the filing added.
The same is true for Elon Musk!
Some folks just see Elon Musk as a rich guy and will do anything to tear him down—lying, cheating, exaggerating. They're terrible judges of character and probably haven't done a real day's work in their lives, at least not what I'd call work. Take Twitter before Elon Musk took over; there were so many slackers that he fired 80% of them, and the company still runs like clockwork!
that's exactly it - in this country, and probably like most countries, ideologically similar pockets of people sometimes densely populate certain areas. for a republican or conservative, especially a well known one, to have a jury of their peers in manhattan is like fishing for saltwater fish in a freshwater pond
The more money someone has, then the more people will dislike them.
All those guys who say they don't like someone. If you ask if they have plenty of money, their reply is invariably yes.
Everyone cheers on the underdog.
Then when they are successful the same people want them bringing back down to earth.
Avarice is a small word that causes huge problems to so many people.
Who cares? Wherever you are in the scheme of things. There will always be some with more and those with less.