SEC Blasts Musk for Attending Rocket Launch Over Twitter Deposition

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By Malathi Nayak

September 20, 2024 at 9:35 PM UTC

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The US Securities and Exchange Commission called out Elon Musk over his latest “excuse” to skip questioning in a probe of his 2022 acquisition of Twitter: He was attending a SpaceX rocket launch.

The SEC said that on the morning of Sept. 10 when Musk was finally scheduled to complete a deposition in Los Angeles after avoiding previous demands and being ordered by a judge to cooperate, a lawyer for the billionaire informed the agency that he was in Florida.