In an email to the Financial Times, Elon Musk denied giving his brother a heads up and said that Tesla's lawyers were clued in before he posted the poll: “Kimbal had no idea I was going to do a Twitter poll.'
“I will abide by the results of this poll, whichever way it goes,” Elon said then.
“Kimbal had no idea I was going to do a Twitter poll... The idea that I would care about whether my brother might sell shares for a few million dollars less when my Twitter poll caused my own share sale to be over a billion dollars less is utterly absurd,” he wrote, referring to stock sales he also made in November. He blamed the investigation on an enforcement official at the SEC “grinding his very tiny axe yet again.
In recent days, Musk has sounded off against the government agency. “I didn’t start the fight, but I will finish it,” he The animosity traces to 2018, when Musk sparked a firestorm after abruptly tweeting that he was considering taking the company private at a price $420 per share, seemingly a wink at the number most often associated with marijuana.
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