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EV Startup Faraday Future Receives DOJ Request Amid SEC Probe

The Faraday Future FF91 electric car is unveiled at the 2017 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.

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Faraday Future Intelligent Electric Inc. said it has received a “preliminary request for information” from the US Department of Justice, several months after securities regulators opened an investigation of the electric-vehicle startup.

The company received the request this month from the DOJ in connection with matters the Securities and Exchange Commission is already looking into, according to a regulatory filingBloomberg Terminal Thursday. Faraday said it’s “in the process of responding to, and intends to fully cooperate with, such request.”