Summary

The SEC has sued Elon Musk, alleging he failed to disclose a timely 5% Twitter stake in 2022, allowing him to buy additional shares at “artificially low prices,” underpaying by $150M.

Musk disclosed his stake 11 days late, after purchasing over $500M in shares, leading Twitter’s stock to surge 27%.

Musk’s lawyer called the case baseless, accusing the SEC of harassment.

This follows prior SEC investigations into Musk for alleged securities fraud and insider trading related to Tesla stock sales.

Musk denies any wrongdoing.

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    10 hours ago

    good thing we’ve put safeguards in place to prevent someone with ongoing investigations of criminal wrongdoing from having power in the US government.

    what’s that?

    we don’t?

    in fact the only sure fire way to get away with your crimes is to get power in government?

    well i guess at least the world’s richest dickhead won’t have much power since he’s a neophyte.

    what’s that?

    he’s going to have the most power?

    well that’s terrible. guess i should move somewhere safe, so called canada.

    what’s that?

    well fuck me.