The Securities and Exchange Commission requested that a government judge hold Tesla Inc. CEO Elon Musk in disdain for disregarding a court settlement that limited what he could distribute about his organization’s execution.
In a court documenting Monday, the SEC contended that Musk had violated a settlement achieved a year ago which expected him to get endorsement from organization authorities before owning any public statements that may affect Tesla’s stock cost.
On Feb. 19, Musk tweeted that “Tesla made 0 cars in 2011, but will make around 500k in 2019.”
In any case, that guarantee negated past direction from Tesla about the upstart car company’s productivity projections.
In another tweet around four hours after the fact, Musk stated, “Meant to say annualized production rate at end of 2019 probably around 500k, ie 10k cars/week. Deliveries for year still estimated to be about 400k.”
In its court filing, the SEC contended that Musk had neglected to have the first tweet checkedand endorsed before sending it.
“He once again published inaccurate and material information about Tesla to his over 24 million Twitter followers, including members of the press, and made this inaccurate information available to anyone with Internet access,” said the SEC.
