Here's the evidence in the public domain thus far linking Elon Musk and Jeffrey Epstein / Ghislaine Maxwell.
1. Business Insider reported that $TSLA Director Kimbal Musk, Elon's brother, was set up with a former girlfriend by Epstein. businessinsider.com/jeffrey-epstei…
2. According to BuzzFeed, Musk attended a dinner held by Epstein and frequented by a number of other tech titans, including Jeff Bezos and of course, Bill Gates, who ended up getting divorced from Melinda Gates in large part over Epstein. buzzfeednews.com/article/petera…
3. In 2019, The New York Times reported that Jeffrey Epstein was "advising Tesla’s embattled chief executive, Elon Musk, who was in trouble after announcing on Twitter that he had lined up the funding to take Tesla private." nytimes.com/2019/08/12/bus…
4. Musk and Maxwell were photographed at the 2014 Vanity Fair Oscar Party together.
5. During Ghislaine Maxwell's criminal trial, an image of an e-mail from Epstein's servers surfaced on-line that shows Musk and Epstein corresponding about Musk meeting Maxwell.
If you know more—and there is clearly more to be learned about exactly what was going on here—feel free to get in touch.
6. Musk and his second ex-wife, Talulah Riley, admitted to visiting Epstein's mansion on an unspecified date in the middle of syndicated denial stories, in which Riley was denying being an escort procured for Musk by Maxwell. Tip thanks to @JCOviedo6. news.com.au/technology/onl…
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This is so bizarre. The court order establishing that Musk lied to investors and acted with scienter is still under seal, but Musk and friends want to appeal it, so now they're quoting from it in public even though it's still under seal. $TSLA
Although it is not considered a direct conflict, Judge Lewis Liman, who has now been assigned to United States Securities Exchange Commission v. Musk and Tesla, Inc., owned $ARKK in 2018. $TSLA
But this is a bit more problematic. Less than a year ago, Judge Liman disclosed that he owns $TSLA shares directly. He must recuse himself, and should have already.
Between April 1 and April 5, Elon Musk lost an important motion in federal court—in secret. As you can see, Document 387 is missing from the docket. As of today, we know it's a court order from Judge Chen that was lodged under seal. $TSLA
On April 6th, Judge Chen tried to clarify what had happened with Document 387 in entry 390, but he left out some extremely important detail only filled in today with the plaintiffs' TRO motion.
This is a very big deal. Elon Musk went into his media blitz, including the TED interview, knowing that a federal judge had ruled against the very thing he was telling the public. But since the order was and remains (for now) secret, no one else knew (except the plaintiffs).
Anyone want to see some redactions magically disappear? $TSLA
In April 2021, in the Tornetta litigation in Delaware about Elon Musk's stock option package, Musk's lawyers insisted that portions of a motion be redacted before being visible to the public. See Document 107.
On behalf of PlainSite, @AaronGreenspan filed a challenge to the confidentiality designations for several documents in the case. And although much is still secret (see Document 200), more is public than before. One item that just became clearer is that motion from April 2021.