{"id":182504,"date":"2018-09-27T15:01:00","date_gmt":"2018-09-27T22:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seattleeva.org\/wp\/sec-sues-tesla-ceo-elon-musk-over-going-private-tweet-2\/"},"modified":"2018-09-27T15:01:00","modified_gmt":"2018-09-27T22:01:00","slug":"sec-sues-tesla-ceo-elon-musk-over-going-private-tweet-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.seattleeva.org\/wp\/sec-sues-tesla-ceo-elon-musk-over-going-private-tweet-2\/","title":{"rendered":"SEC sues Tesla CEO Elon Musk over going-private tweet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-style:italic;font-size:16px\">By  <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.greencarreports.com\/news\/1119041_sec-sues-tesla-ceo-elon-musk-over-going-private-tweet\">feedback@highgearmedia.com (Eric C. Evarts)<\/a><\/span>  The Securities and Exchange Commission sued Tesla CEO Elon Musk for securities fraud Thursday over his Aug. 7 tweet when he announced he had &#8220;funding secured&#8221; to take Tesla private. In the complaint, filed in federal court in Manhattan, the SEC said Musk made &#8220;&#8216;false and misleading public statements and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.greencarreports.com\/news\/1119041_sec-sues-tesla-ceo-elon-musk-over-going-private-tweet\" target=\"_blank\" id=\"rssmi_more\"> &#8230;read more<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Source:: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.greencarreports.com\/news\/1119041_sec-sues-tesla-ceo-elon-musk-over-going-private-tweet\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"SEC sues Tesla CEO Elon Musk over going-private tweet\">https:\/\/www.greencarreports.com\/news\/1119041_sec-sues-tesla-ceo-elon-musk-over-going-private-tweet<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Securities and Exchange Commission sued Tesla CEO Elon Musk for securities fraud Thursday over his Aug. 7 tweet when he announced he had &#8220;funding secured&#8221; to take Tesla private. In the complaint, filed in federal court in Manhattan, the SEC said Musk made &#8220;&#8216;false and misleading public statements and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.greencarreports.com\/news\/1119041_sec-sues-tesla-ceo-elon-musk-over-going-private-tweet\" target=\"_blank\" id=\"rssmi_more\"> &#8230;read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-greencarreports"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seattleeva.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seattleeva.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seattleeva.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seattleeva.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seattleeva.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.seattleeva.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182504\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seattleeva.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seattleeva.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seattleeva.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}