SEC lawsuit claims Musk gained over $150 million by delaying Twitter stake disclosure

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SEC lawsuit claims Musk gained over $150 million by delaying

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stake disclosure

After a more than two-year investigation, the Securities and Exchange Commission Elon Musk over his of the

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stock he amassed before announcing his intention to acquire the company in 2022.

In a court filing, the SEC says that Musk filed paperwork with the SEC disclosing his purchase of

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shares 11 days after an SEC-mandated deadline to do so. This, according to the regulator, allowed him to buy up even more

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stock at a time when other investors were unaware of his involvement with the company.

From the lawsuit:

During the ******* that Musk was required to publicly disclose his beneficial ownership but had failed to do so, he spent more than $500 million purchasing additional shares of

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common stock. Because Musk failed to timely disclose his beneficial ownership, he was able to make these purchases from the unsuspecting public at artificially low prices, which did not yet reflect the undisclosed material information of Musk’s beneficial ownership of more than five percent of

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common stock and investment purpose. In total, Musk underpaid

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investors by more than $150 million for his purchases of

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common stock during this *******. Investors who sold

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common stock during this ******* did so at artificially low prices and thus suffered substantial economic harm.

The regulator has been investigating Musk for years, and has long been at odds with the owner of X. At one point, the SEC of attempting to stall and use “gamesmanship” to delay its investigation into his investment in

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. Last month, Musk shared of a letter addressed to SEC Chair Gary Gensler in which Musk’s lawyer accused the regulator of “six years of harassment” targeting Musk. The letter indicated that Musk refused a settlement offer from the SEC related to its

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investigation

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