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Wednesday, April 02, 2025

Today, New York City Comptroller Brad Lander urged the New York City Law Department to pursue securities litigation against Tesla on behalf of the the New York City pension systems. The basis of the potential litigation are the material misstatements from Tesla claiming that CEO Elon Musk spends significant time on the company and is highly active in its management, despite his helming the Trump Administration's DOGE initiative, spending little of his time actually managing Tesla, and promoting policies that are actively harmful to Tesla's business.

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Tesla's vehicle sales fell 13% in the first quarter, dragged down by the changeover of its most important model and international backlash against Elon Musk

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-- Bloomberg News (@bloomberg.com) April 2, 2025 at 9:11 AM

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More from the press release ...

... "Ever since Elon Musk took over DOGE and became best-friend-in-chief with President Trump, Tesla"where Musk is supposed to be CEO"has suffered financially, causing enormous losses for Tesla shareholders," said Comptroller Brad Lander. "In less than three months, Tesla stock has lost nearly 40% of its value, with losses over $300 million for the New York City pension systems.

We have long expressed concerns that the Tesla board has failed to provide independent oversight, or to require that Musk -- or someone else -- serve as a full-time CEO. Now, it appears that material misstatements from Tesla misled investors about his role at the company.

That's why I'm calling on the Law Department to file securities litigation: because Elon Musk is so distracted that he's driving Tesla off a financial cliff and taking down shareholder value with it." ...


#1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-04-01 08:22 PM | Reply

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