Summary
A campaign finance watchdog filed a formal complaint alleging Elon Musk violated conflict of interest laws by influencing an FAA deal favoring his company, Starlink.
The Campaign Legal Center argues the FAA may cancel Verizon’s $2.4 billion contract due to Musk’s involvement in discussions about awarding Starlink a multibillion-dollar contract, violating federal law prohibiting officials from benefiting financially.
The Transportation Department’s inspector general may investigate, but Musk is unlikely to face penalties under the Trump administration.
Musk denies wrongdoing, claiming transparency, while CLC insists his actions qualify as unlawful participation.
If perfectly performed, he could be the center of attention in 5 places all at once.
Bisected, trisected, quartered… What’s a word for cutting something into 5 pieces? 6?
Following the pattern of bisected, which is Latin, 4 through 6 would be quatresected, quinquesected (or cinquesected), and sexected. If you prefer to switch to Greek roots, it’s tetrasected, pentasected, and heptasected; 2 with a Greek root would be disected, but that already means something else.
Comparison to quartered is uglier; 2 is obviously halved, but 3, 5, and 6 are harder. My first instinct was ‘thirded’, but I don’t think so. ‘halved’ ≠ ‘seconded’, and I can’t think of anything that would be to ‘thirded’ as ‘halved’ is to ‘seconded’