News Alert: Tesla Shareholders Ask Judge To Silence Musk in Fraud Case!

Elon Musk being the avid and scandalous tweeter he made a few tweets about taking the company private. Now the lawyers of all the stockholders of Tesla have court documents that clearly state that Elon Musk’s tweets about having funding secured for the privatisation are false. Keep on reading to find out more about this scam scandal!
May 27, 2022
Elon Musk

You might have heard of Tesla, and in all honesty, who hasn’t heard of this electric car company that entered the automobile industry with a huge bang. However, many people might be unaware of the company so let me explain the company to you. 

Tesla is primarily an automobile manufacturer as well as a clean energy company which is led by the insanely smart and intelligent billionaire Elon Musk. The company manufactures, retails, and services all types of electric vehicles in Europe, China, and the United States. The company has produced electric vehicles that are battery-powered and are operating on clean energy. A few of the models include Model Y, Model X, Model 3, Model S, Tesla Semi, and other Tesla Roadster vehicles. The company is based in Austin, Texas, and has definitely left a long-lasting mark in the automobile industry and is here to stay. 

Now let’s dive into the drama surrounding Tesla going private, Elon Musk’s tweets, and then the ongoing lawsuit and trials of Tesla. It’s too interesting to miss and Tesla is the modern and contemporary automobile company that has introduced cars operating on batteries hence reducing the carbon footprint.

Elon Musk’s Scandalous Tweets

Scandalous Tweets

Without further ado let’s dive straight into this fiasco! Now a few of Tesla’s shareholders are suing Elon Musk. You might be wondering what exactly is going on and what is he being sued over? 

So basically Elon Musk being the avid and scandalous tweeter he made a few tweets about taking the company private. Now the lawyers of all the stockholders of Tesla have court documents that clearly state that Elon Musk’s tweets about having funding secured for the privatisation are false. Moreover, it gets messier, hold on! 

Certain comments made by Musk clearly violate a 2018 settlement with the United States securities followed by Musk agreeing to pay 20 million US dollars worth of fines. Now it doesn’t stop there, Musk made a few comments at a Ted conference in April. He stated that he had the funding to actually take the company private while calling the SEC( Securities and Exchange Commission) a rather irreverent name. Musk was bold enough to state that the only reason he settled was that he was pressured by bankers and Tesla would clearly be bankrupt without funding. 

Now after Musk’s rather scandalous and bold comments, the entire lawsuit against Elon Musk unfolded. There were certain court documents that were filed stating that Musk is clearly trying to influence jurors and his tweets in 2018 regarding taking Tesla private were mainly to manipulate the stock price hence costing the shareholders money. 

I know it’s a whole fiasco from Musk’s bold comments and not holding back and then the entire court case over tweets from almost 4 years ago. I mean the shareholders are quite bitter over the tweets and are suing him because of the 2018 tweets. At this point, I’m pretty sure Musk would’ve wanted to retract those tweets or press delete and erase all these tweets.

The lawsuit and Court Trials for Fraud & Scams

Lawsuit

Now let’s dive into the court case and the trails that are following these tweets and this whole fiasco. Now the opposing lawyers state that Musk is confusing the jurors with a false narrative claiming that he was unaware of his tweets in 2018. The lawyers requested Judge Edward Chen to restrict Musk from any public comments and the judge gave Musk’s lawyers time till April 20th to respond. 

In addition to this, Alex Spiro, the lawyer of Elon Musk, stated that the opposing lawyers are simply seeking a massive payout from this court case. He further went on to state that a decade later, the plaintiff’s lawyers are merely seeking a payout from all of this fiasco. Moreover, the opposing lawyers stated that Judge Chen called Musk’s tweets misleading and false; however, this was confidential, and this order was sealed due to the existence of evidence being very secretive.

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Complaints From The SEC

In addition to the ongoing case, the SEC filed a complaint against Musk’s 2018 tweets as they were allegedly going against security law violations. This led to Musk signing an agreement and agreeing to pay a fine. 

This agreement clearly stated that Musk “will not take any action or make or permit to be made any public statement denying, directly or indirectly, any allegation in the complaint or creating the impression that the complaint is without factual basis.” 

If Musk tries to violate this agreement with the SEC, the complaint against him will be restored, and he’ll face a serious lawsuit. However, Alex Spiro has made a statement on behalf of Elon Musk which is mainly asking the Manhattan federal court to toss out this agreement, and he states that the SEC is using its power to prevent Musk’s speech. In addition to this, Spiro said that Musk signed this agreement when the company was not as mature and was a young company. Let’s see how this entire thing unfolds! Until now, this is all the information I’ve got for you! I’m pretty sure we’re all eagerly awaiting the new turn of events and how this entire unfolds.

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