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The investigation — which escalates a long-running feud between the SEC and Musk — concerns whether Musk broke federal securities laws in 2022 when he bought stock in Twitter, which Musk renamed X, as well as statements and SEC filings he made in relation to the deal.

The SEC said it subpoenaed Musk in May 2023 requiring him to provide testimony at the SEC’s San Francisco office, and that Musk had agreed to appear on Sept. 15. But then two days beforehand Musk raised "several spurious objections" and told the SEC he would not appear, the SEC said. Musk also refused to SEC proposals to conduct the deposition in Texas in October or November.

Among his objections was that the SEC was trying to “harass” him and that his counsel needed time to review potentially relevant material contained in a biography of Musk published last month, the SEC said.

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[–] [email protected] 138 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Couldn't be happening to a more deserving guy. Between the racism lawsuits, his ex-girlfriend lawsuit, investor lawsuits, former executive suing him, and now the SEC? I hope this is the year we take all of Elon's money.

[–] [email protected] 74 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Just shows how weak our government is against the rich. If the SEC order any of us to appear we would appear or go to jail. These fucker can even ignore subpoena.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They couldn't even enforce their settlement with him over the fraud he was investigated for at Tesla. Which doesn't even count all the fraud they turned a blind eye to.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

i.e., excessive wealth deferment

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago (2 children)

All of this could be why he’s slowly morphing into Kathy Bates, he’s looking for a disguise we might trust.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

I know a guy whose ankles would disagree strongly with that assesment

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

The only hypothesis that makes sense so far, IMO.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

Maybe he and Trump can share a cell together.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Even if we could just take away 99.9999%, that would be nice. He'd still be several times wealither than the average american his age.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

That's acceptable to me, look what he pisses his money away on. The other .0001% would be gone quickly.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

As much as I would love for that to happen, money just gets shuffled around between companies and people like cards at a casino. It's exceptionally easy to launder it when you're that wealthy.

And then even if you do somehow manage to remove all his assets, he still maintains his existing social networks and connections, which may be enough to get him back to a similar position.

Prison is necessary if he has committed financial crimes. Anything less is merely finger-wagging.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, I mean, none of us are that lucky. But is a life without dreaming a life worth living?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

It's the wrong day for me to answer that question too honestly, but I understand your point. Keep on dreaming and living the dream, friend.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

musk reportedly burns a lot of bridges (you have to in order to get that filthy rich)