We will be starting off 2022 with about 3,000 pages of $TSLA e-mails released by New York State which, when combined with other documents, prove that Tesla committed multiple types of fraud, lied to New York, and lied to investors.
Before posting the links, the most important context can be found in three separate documents.
The first is found in Greenspan v. Qazi et al, Document 149, Attachment 14, Page 4. That would be Panasonic's USDOL request for labor re-training assistance. plainsite.org/dockets/49sdnb….
The second is Tesla's Q4 2019 Update slide deck for investors. Note page 9, the bottom paragraph. tesla-cdn.thron.com/static/O7WXQA_…
The third is Tesla's Q1 2020 Update slide deck for investors. Again, note page 9, the bottom paragraph. tesla-cdn.thron.com/static/HZTKGL_…
Finally, to support investigative journalism on the largest companies in the country, please subscribe to PlainSite Pro. You'll get advance notification of documents like these going forward. plainsite.org/signup/index.h…
Without further ado...
New! Tesla New York State ESDC E-Mails Part I: plainsite.org/documents/38by…
New! Tesla New York State ESDC E-Mails Part II: plainsite.org/documents/38w3…
New! Tesla New York State ESDC E-Mails Part III: plainsite.org/documents/39g8…
Here is the most important document we have found in the ~3,000 pages. It's an e-mail from Tesla's lawyer in Washington, D.C., Joseph Mendelson, who managed the Buffalo relationship. In it, Mendelson lies repeatedly about Tesla's plans to grow manufacturing in Buffalo.
About a week later, Panasonic told the United States Department of Labor that it needed job re-training services for 376 of its Buffalo employees (whom Tesla would not be hiring) because Tesla had already decided to move manufacturing to China.
China isn't Buffalo.
Just like Tesla never told CAEATFA about its plans to manufacture an increasing number of its vehicles in China, Tesla never told ESDC about its plans to outsource its solar manufacturing to China. But Elon fought hard and took CAEATFA's and ESDC's tax subsidies anyway.
Meanwhile, $TSLA told investors that it had met a new "milestone" at its empty, non-functional Buffalo factory, for which NY taxpayers were and still are picking up the tab to warehouse equipment.
They left out that part. But we have the receipts. plainsite.org/documents/32qm…
Some may recall that $TSLA donated "ventilators" to New York hospitals at the outset of the COVID-19 pandemic. Those donations were not just for PR purposes. They were also used in an application to convince ESDC to change contractual terms.
Lawyer's trick: use a slash.
We've already requested a copy of the audit, whose existence has not been previously reported. $TSLA
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