Elon Musk has only been Twitter’s largest shareholder for a few weeks, but he’s already facing a class action lawsuit over his handling of the investment. A Twitter shareholdera class action lawsuit against Musk over his 11-day delay in officially disclosing his investment in Twitter to the SEC.
Under securities law, Musk was required to file paperwork with the SEC by March 24th — 10 days after his stake in Twitter grew to 5 percent — but he didn’t do so until April 4th. That delay might not sound particularly significant, but it may have netted him as much as. According to the lawsuit, those gains came at the expense of other shareholders, who were not able to similarly profit.
“Investors who sold shares of Twitter stock between March 24, 2022, when Musk was required to have disclosed his Twitter ownership, and before the actual April 4, 2022 disclosure, missed the resulting share price increase as the market reacted to Musk’s purchases and were damaged thereby,” the lawsuit states.
According to the shareholder who brought the suit, he and other investors sold shares at “artificially deflated” prices as a result of Musk’s actions. The suit also alleges that Musk made “materially false and misleading statements and omissions by failing to disclose to investors that he had acquired a 5% ownership stake in Twitter as required.”
The lawsuit comes after a chaotic few days for Twitter and Musk. The Tesla CEO and noted Twitter troll had initially agreed
They are desperate...shiting on their pens level...
Elon got to much 🧀 this is petty news lol
So the investor is upset he made money off the announcement
Those TSLAQ bots are hopeless 😂
Lol liberals can stand it so the sue
Burn the whole fucking thing to the ground Elon!
Doesn’t have to worry too much, his followers will defend him.
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