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Musk’s Corruption Laid Bare
What a mess.
Musk’s corruption, both in the moral and legal sense, has been an open secret for years now. Take Kathy Leuders. As part of NASA’s administration, she gave SpaceX nearly $3 billion for a Starship-derived lunar lander, which was a project that many experts said SpaceX couldn’t deliver on. Almost immediately, she left NASA and got a cushy job, likely with sizeable equity, at SpaceX. That’s pretty damn fishy, yet it has never been investigated (read more here). Or what about the fact that the DoJ was investigating Tesla for wire fraud after it found they had lied to investors about their self-driving technology (read more here)? At the time, this case was rapidly moving to court, but we haven’t heard anything about it since Trump and Musk entered the White House. And these aren’t isolated cases. Musk behaves corruptly so often that it can be hard to keep track of each incident. However, detailing these incidents is just what Elizabeth Warren has done, and her recent report lays out Musk’s copious, heinous, and corrupt actions for all to see. It seems that even with such a huge immoral advantage, Musk’s company is still struggling under the immense weight of his incompetence.
Senator Elizabeth Warren has been one of the few senators to consistently hold Musk to account, but arguably, this report is her most significant move against him. It is…
