At least 72 construction liens have been filed against billionaire Elon Musk's South Texas-based rocket company since 2019, records show.The South Texas building spree by billionaire Elon Musk's rocket company SpaceX appears to have outpaced its payments to roughly two-dozen contractors,
"If they were to call me today, I'd tell them to fuck off," said Brian Rozelle, an owner of Hydroz Energy Services LLC, told Reuters after his experience providing services for SpaceX. In Texas, construction firms can use liens to stake monetary claims on properties on which they worked but didn't receive payment. Properties tied up in liens become hard for the owner to sell or refinance."SpaceX is the big bully on the playground," Carlos Cascos, a Brownsville accountant and former Texas secretary of state told Reuters."They get away with this stuff because people want to do business with them.