Zuckerberg off the hook after donating millions to Trump schemes
Jake Johnson for Common Dreams
Bloomberg Law reported Thursday that “senior leaders” at the Justice
Department “ordered career prosecutors in the Western District of Virginia to cease the
criminal investigation following advocacy from Meta’s legal team.” Meta is
headed by Mark
Zuckerberg, a billionaire who has worked to ingratiate himself with Donald Trump by
helping to bankroll his inauguration and ballroom project.
“This is what Meta’s money is buying,” Kyle Jacobs-Morse,
deputy executive director of the Tech Oversight Project, wrote
in response to reports of the halted probe.
The existence of the Meta investigation was first revealed
in March 2024 by The Wall
Street Journal, which reported at the time that US prosecutors were “sending
subpoenas and asking questions as part of a criminal grand jury probe looking
into whether the company’s social-media platforms are facilitating and
profiting from the illegal sale of drugs.”
According to Bloomberg Law, DOJ leaders’ decision to
sideline the probe came “just after company executives were subpoenaed to
testify.”
