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Tesla faces investor lawsuit over Musk tweets on 10% stock sales -Breaking

by Mike Robinson

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San Francisco (Reuters) – Tesla Inc (NASDAQ:) Inc was sued for CEO Elon Musk’s tweets about stock sales, which led to a drop in stock prices.

David Wagner, Tesla investor, requested access to internal documents in order to examine whether Tesla and Musk breached an agreement with U.S. securities regulators. The board members also failed to follow their fiduciary duties.

In 2018, Musk settled a lawsuit by the Securities and Exchange Commission over his tweet on taking the company private, agreeing to have the company’s lawyers pre-approve tweets with material information about the company.

Tesla shares dropped by 25%, after they had been hovering near records. Musk stated Nov. 6 that he would buy 10% of the stake from Twitter users if they agreed. Since then, he has sold close to $14 billion in shares.

On Thursday, the Delaware Court of Chancery filed a lawsuit to get records and books related his tweets. This includes documents that can be used to determine if the tweets about stock sales were approved or reviewed in advance.

Musk and his board were sued in March by another shareholder. They accused Musk of not complying with 2018’s settlement. The lawsuit exposed shareholders to millions of dollars.

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