Anduril founder Palmer Luckey will have an attorney general as a brother-in-law if Matt Gaetz is confirmed

• The next attorney general could be the brother-in-law of billionaire tech founder Palmer Luckey.

• Luckey’s sister, Ginger, is married to Matt Gaetz, who tapped Donald Trump for the role.

• Luckey leads an emerging defense startup, Anduril.

Billionaire tech founder Palmer Luckey’s brother-in-law, Rep. Matt Gaetzcould be the next attorney general.

Wednesday, President-elect Donald Trump said he would nominate Gaetz, the congressman for Florida’s 1st district, to be attorney general.

“Matt will root out systemic corruption at DOJ and return the Department to its true mission: fighting crime and upholding our democracy and Constitution,” Trump wrote in a speech. Truth Social Post.

Gaetz has resigned from Congress, but his post will need to be confirmed by the US Senate.

“Attorney General will look great on you, my dear,” Gaetz’s wife and Luckey’s sister, Gingersaid in a post on X on Wednesday.

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 LinkedIn profilethe UC Santa Barbara graduate works as a manager at KPMG.

Luckey, a tech founder and Trump supporterstarted Oculus VR in 2012.

In 2014, he sold the company to Meta for $2 billion in cash and stock, while Mark Zuckerberg invested heavily in virtual and augmented reality to expand the Metaverse.

But in 2016, Luckey was fired by Meta after backlash over his political donations to a pro-Trump group. Meta has insisted that it is Luckey’s Politics played no role in his departure.

Luckey launched a defense startup called Anduril in 2017, which aims to bring artificial intelligence and technological innovation to the US military at scale.

In 2020, Anduril struck a deal with U.S. Customs and Border Protection to create a “virtual wall” of some 200 solar-powered surveillance towers to monitor illegal passage into the US.

More recently, the country has made waves in the defense industry by winning major government contracts. In April, it beat out legacy contractors like Northrup Grumman and Lockheed Martin to join the U.S. Air Force operation. Collaborative fighter aircraft program, which aims to purchase a thousand drones for $30 million each.

In October it achieved a A $250 million deal with the Pentagon for 500 of its drones and portable electronic warfare equipment.

Anduril’s Series F roundled 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.

Luckey’s representatives at Anduril and Gaetz did not respond to a request for comment from Business Insider.

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