Small Businesses that Helped Build Musk's Empire Owed Millions

Sunday, August 03, 2025

CNN found 97 small businesses that Tesla owes more than $100 million after being hired to build a Texas gigafactory. Watch the CNN interview with a woman who did work for Elon Musk's company to help build the factory but then had to fight to get paid. She lost her business and is struggling to keep her home.

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A CNN investigation found Elon Musk's Tesla owes dozens of small businesses millions of dollars in unpaid bills. CNN's Kyung Lah reports. Read the full story: cnn.it/478ZOYm

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-- CNN (@cnn.com) Aug 1, 2025 at 11:33 AM

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So Musk is a crook just like Trump? Surprised? Not even.

#1 | Posted by danni at 2025-08-03 08:25 AM

Nope--those aren't payables to the vendors involved, they are donations from those vendors to the Musk cause. Go ahead and sue Leon, who will gladly spend about 90% of what he owes on legal fees, just to grind it out in court until the vendors capitulate because of their cost to fight the world's richest man. A wine for the ketamine fiend...

#2 | Posted by catdog at 2025-08-03 08:39 AM

Now do every large corporation. They all do the same thing. Their specialty is the rules by which the PO must be billed against. Literally failing to cross a T can send it back for 90 - 180 days.

#3 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2025-08-03 02:59 PM

@#1 ... So Musk is a crook just like Trump? Surprised? Not even. ...

So, I'm not the only person who noticed that possible similarity?

#4 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-08-03 10:27 PM

@#3 ... They all do the same thing. ...

Got links?

Or is your current alias just squeezing out more diarrhea again?

#5 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-08-03 10:28 PM

Now do every large corporation. They all do the same thing.
#3 | Posted by lfthndthrds

So it's okay when big corporations don't pay their bills, or Trump is going to fix this problem that's gotten so big it's happening at every large corporation.

#6 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-08-03 10:33 PM

So it's okay when big corporations don't pay their bills, or Trump is going to fix this problem that's gotten so big it's happening at every large corporation.

#6 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-08-03 10:33 PM | Reply | Flag

Big corporations pay their bills but people who signed up to do work for them signed a deal with the devil, and the devils is in those details. You just want to single out Musk like his company is the only one doing this ----. You and GasLighter are drama queens.

#7 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2025-08-04 03:10 PM

So, Not A Problem. It's okay when any business doesn't pay their bills. Thanks for clarifying.

#8 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-08-04 04:20 PM

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