The U.S. securities and exchange Commission SEC accuses the Tesla-founder Elon Musk , to have the obligations of a comparison after controversial Twitter messages violated. You requested on Monday a judge to Musk, the contempt of court guilty.
The SEC pointed to a Tweet from the 19. February, had written to the Musk: “ Tesla built 0 cars in 2011, but will recover in 2019, approximately 500k”.
Tesla made 0 cars in 2011, but wants to. make around 500k in 2019
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) 20 February 2019
For the message will have caught up with Musk is no permission, it was said. In addition, the Tweet had more than 24 million people is misleading. A statement from Tesla was first. Tesla shares fell in after-hours trading in the course of around five percent.
Musk and the SEC had in October with a settlement of a legal dispute, in which he would have been able to lose the permit for the Conduct of listed companies. He had written in August, on Twitter, he will take the company maybe of the stock exchange, and 420 dollars per share in cash, the financing was secured. This turned out later to be incorrect. (cpm/sda)
Created: 26.02.2019, 08:35 PM
