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Tesla Is Suing An Oil-Company Executive For Impersonating Elon Musk (businessinsider.com)

Posted by BeauHD on from the insider-information dept.

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Business Insider: Tesla is suing an oil executive under suspicion of impersonating Elon Musk to dig up confidential financial information from the company, Forbes reported on Wednesday. The lawsuit, reportedly filed Wednesday in the Superior Court of Santa Clara County, claimed that Todd Katz, the chief financial officer for Quest Integrity Group, emailed Tesla's chief financial officer using a similar email address as Musk's looking to gain information that wasn't disclosed in an earnings call with investors. Quest Integrity Group has partnerships with BP, Chevron, and ExxonMobil, the Forbes report said. According to the lawsuit, Katz used "elontesla@yahoo.com" to send an email to Tesla CFO Jason Wheeler asking about the company's sales and financial projections. The email named in the suit reads: "why you so cautious w Q3/4 gm guidance on call? also what are your thoughts on disclosing M3 res#? Pros/cons from ir pov? what is your best guess as to where we actually come in on q3/4 deliverables. honest guess? no bs. thx 4 hard work prepping 4 today. em." Tesla is seeking "undisclosed financial compensation," as well as compensation for the cost of the investigation and legal fees, according to Forbes.

6 of 170 comments (clear)

  1. Apple by sexconker · · Score: 4, Funny

    Is Apple going to sue Elon Musk for impersonating Steve Jobs?

    1. Re:Apple by amicusNYCL · · Score: 5, Funny

      Way to rewrite history there, pal. It's not like the only thing Jobs did was build a better phone. He also literally invented the first portable music player in history, and then re-invented it (again). In fact, I distinctly remember an event when he revealed the newest all-new re-invented portable music player, and it was impossibly small, it said so right there in the marketing literature. Impossibly small, but he built it anyway. He builds things that are literally impossible to build. Call me when Elon comes out with an impossibly small car or rocket and then we can compare him to Jobs.

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      "Our two-party system is like a bowl of shit looking at itself in a mirror." - Lewis Black
  2. Re:Why do names reflect the opposite so often? by Chuq · · Score: 5, Funny

    The leader of the People's Democratic Republic of Korea disagrees with you.

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    - Chuq
  3. It continued... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    why you so cautious w Q3/4 gm guidance on call? also plz list my gr8test wkneses an prsnl failngs. can also leave cpy of all imprtant secrt financial docs by bench at park? thx for hrd wrk, i am yr leedur. em. oil is dum, lol!

  4. Re:Strange Wording by thegarbz · · Score: 4, Funny

    Is that really how Elon Musk writes emails?

    Elon Musk doesn't even tweet like that. This is barely a step above:

    Plz I can haz corporate secretz
    kthxbye.

  5. Re:Why do names reflect the opposite so often? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    And so do the United States of America.

    Yeah, Florida and Texas can fuck right off.