A jury has found Elon Musk liable for misleading investors by deliberately driving down Twitter’s stock price in the tumultuous months leading up to his 2022 acquisition of the social media company for $44 billion. But it absolved him of some fraud allegations, finding that he did not “scheme” to mislead investors.

  • brownsugga@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    Oh No, point 2 % of his net worth

    0.2%

    literally less than a traffic ticket in terms of scale

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      I mean I dislike the guy as much as you, but almost all of his “wealth” is paper wealth. He may very well not be able to liquidate 2% of his wealth (fine with me).

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          20 hours ago

          Yes of course. But a lot of it ain’t vested and so the terms may not be great or downright unpalatable.

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        Point is that if I commit fraud or steal anything over 10 dollars I might go to jail

        This guy lies steals and cheats by the billions and he gets a hug

        Jail the motherfucker already

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        Paper wealth and theoretical wealth, he will have to borrow that $2B using paper value as collateral.