{"id":1199533,"date":"2023-11-03T13:22:38","date_gmt":"2023-11-03T17:22:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1199533"},"modified":"2023-11-03T13:22:38","modified_gmt":"2023-11-03T17:22:38","slug":"elon-musk-tries-to-avoid-testifying-in-twitter-stock-probe-asks-court-for-help","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1199533","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk tries to avoid testifying in Twitter-stock probe, asks court for help"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"rss-wrap\">\n<figure class=\"intro-image intro-left\">\n  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/getty-musk-800x533-1.jpg\" alt=\"Elon Musk on stage at an event, resting his chin on his hand\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"caption\" style=\"font-size:0.8em\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.arstechnica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/getty-musk.jpg\" class=\"enlarge-link\" data-height=\"1667\" data-width=\"2500\">Enlarge<\/a> <span class=\"sep\">\/<\/span> Elon Musk at an AI event with Britain Prime Minister Rishi Sunak in London on Thursday, Nov. 2, 2023. (credit: Getty Images | WPA Pool )<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<div><a name=\"page-1\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Elon Musk&#8217;s attempt to avoid testifying in a Twitter stock-purchase investigation continued yesterday with Musk asking a court to block a subpoena issued by the Securities and Exchange Commission.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/storage.courtlistener.com\/recap\/gov.uscourts.cand.419113\/gov.uscourts.cand.419113.24.0.pdf\">Musk&#8217;s filing<\/a> in US District Court for the Northern District of California claimed the SEC is &#8220;harassing&#8221; him, exceeding its authority to investigate, and making &#8220;overly burdensome&#8221; demands for &#8220;irrelevant evidence.&#8221; The filing comes about a month after the <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/2023\/10\/sec-sues-musk-saying-he-refuses-to-testify-in-twitter-stock-investigation\/\">SEC sued Musk<\/a> to force him to testify. Musk provided testimony twice in July 2022 but is resisting the SEC&#8217;s attempt to question him a third time.<\/p>\n<p>The SEC is investigating the purchases of Twitter&#8217;s stock that Musk made in the months before he bought the company outright. The agency began its investigation in April 2022 after Musk acquired a 9 percent stake in Twitter and failed to disclose it within 10 days as required under US law.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1980989#p3\">Read 13 remaining paragraphs<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1980989&amp;comments=1\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Ars Technica &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1980989\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Elon Musk tries to avoid testifying in Twitter-stock probe, asks court for help<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Enlarge \/ Elon Musk at an AI event with Britain Prime Minister Rishi Sunak in London on Thursday, Nov. 2, 2023. (credit: Getty Images | WPA Pool ) Elon Musk&#8217;s attempt to avoid testifying in a Twitter stock-purchase investigation continued &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1199533\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1199534,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,110],"tags":[73],"class_list":["post-1199533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ars-technica","category-unfiltered-rss","tag-ars-technica"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1199533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1199533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1199533\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1199534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1199533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1199533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1199533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}