{"id":183097,"date":"2018-09-29T15:06:00","date_gmt":"2018-09-29T22:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seattleeva.org\/wp\/tesla-ceo-elon-musk-settles-lawsuit-with-sec-for-40m-will-step-down-as-chairman-202\/"},"modified":"2018-09-29T15:06:00","modified_gmt":"2018-09-29T22:06:00","slug":"tesla-ceo-elon-musk-settles-lawsuit-with-sec-for-40m-will-step-down-as-chairman-202","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.seattleeva.org\/wp\/tesla-ceo-elon-musk-settles-lawsuit-with-sec-for-40m-will-step-down-as-chairman-202\/","title":{"rendered":"Tesla CEO Elon Musk settles lawsuit with SEC for $40M, will step down as chairman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-style:italic;font-size:16px\">By  <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.greencarreports.com\/news\/1119071_tesla-ceo-elon-musk-settles-lawsuit-with-sec-for-40m-will-step-down-as-chairman\">feedback@highgearmedia.com (Aaron Cole)<\/a><\/span>  Tesla CEO Elon Musk on Saturday settled a lawsuit with federal regulators alleging that the controversial executive bilked investors and lied when he announced the automaker had &#8220;funding secured&#8221; to buy back millions in shares to take the company private. The Securities and Exchange Commission announced the settlement Saturday. According <a href=\"https:\/\/www.greencarreports.com\/news\/1119071_tesla-ceo-elon-musk-settles-lawsuit-with-sec-for-40m-will-step-down-as-chairman\" target=\"_blank\" id=\"rssmi_more\"> &#8230;read more<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Source:: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.greencarreports.com\/news\/1119071_tesla-ceo-elon-musk-settles-lawsuit-with-sec-for-40m-will-step-down-as-chairman\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Tesla CEO Elon Musk settles lawsuit with SEC for $40M, will step down as chairman\">https:\/\/www.greencarreports.com\/news\/1119071_tesla-ceo-elon-musk-settles-lawsuit-with-sec-for-40m-will-step-down-as-chairman<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tesla CEO Elon Musk on Saturday settled a lawsuit with federal regulators alleging that the controversial executive bilked investors and lied when he announced the automaker had &#8220;funding secured&#8221; to buy back millions in shares to take the company private. The Securities and Exchange Commission announced the settlement Saturday. According <a href=\"https:\/\/www.greencarreports.com\/news\/1119071_tesla-ceo-elon-musk-settles-lawsuit-with-sec-for-40m-will-step-down-as-chairman\" 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-183097","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\/183097","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=183097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.seattleeva.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183097\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seattleeva.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seattleeva.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seattleeva.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}