Palmer Luckey, Anduril's founder, will have an Attorney General for a brother-in-law if Matt Gaetz gets confirmed
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- The next Attorney General could well be billionaire tech founder Palmer Luckey's brother-in-law.
- Luckey's sister, Ginger, is married to Matt Gaetz, who Donald Trump has tapped for the role.
- Luckey runs an up-and-coming defense startup, Anduril.
Billionaire tech founder Palmer Luckey's brother-in-law, Rep. Matt Gaetz, could be the next Attorney General.
On Wednesday, President-elect Donald Trump said he would nominate Gaetz, the congressman for Florida's 1st district, for Attorney General.
"Matt will root out the systemic corruption at DOJ, and return the Department to its true mission of fighting Crime, and upholding our Democracy and Constitution," Trump wrote in a Truth Social post.
Gaetz has resigned from Congress, but his post will have to be confirmed by the US Senate.
"Attorney General will look great on you my love," Gaetz's wife and Luckey's sister, Ginger, said in a post on X on Wednesday.
Attorney General will look great on you my love ???????????? pic.twitter.com/p2yXnPpkny
— Ginger Gaetz (@GingerLGaetz) November 13, 2024
Ginger told the Daily Mail that she got engaged to Gaetz about 10 months after they met at Trump's Mar-a-Lago Club in March 2020.
The couple married in August 2021 in Southern California. According to Ginger's LinkedIn profile, the UC Santa Barbara graduate works as a manager at KPMG.
Luckey, a tech founder and Trump backer, started Oculus VR in 2012.
In 2014, he sold the firm to Meta for $2 billion in cash and stock as Mark Zuckerberg invested heavily in virtual and augmented reality to build the Metaverse.
But in 2016, Luckey was fired from Meta following backlash over his political donations to a pro-Trump group. Meta has maintained that Luckey's politics weren't a factor in his departure.
Luckey launched a defense startup called Anduril in 2017, which aims to bring artificial intelligence and tech innovation to the US military at scale.
In 2020, Anduril landed a deal with the US Customs and Border Protection to deliver a "virtual wall" of some 200 solar-powered surveillance towers to monitor illegal passage into the US.
More recently, it's been making waves in the defense industry by clinching key government contracts. In April, it beat out legacy contractors like Northrup Grumman and Lockheed Martin to take part in the US Air Force's Collaborative Combat Aircraft program, which aims to buy 1,000 drones at $30 million each.
In October, it secured a $250 million deal with the Pentagon for 500 of its drones and portable electronic warfare equipment.
Anduril's Series F round, led by Peter Thiel's venture capital firm, valued the startup at $14 billion in August and secured $1.5 billion to build its first major factory.
Representatives for Luckey at Anduril and Gaetz did not respond to a request for comment from Business Insider.