Market NewsWas reported to have sexually harassed a stewardess, "sent a horse for a massage" and paid a hush fee of $250000? Max was angry: dirty tricks against meRecently, US media reported that Elon Musk was involved in an old scandal. In 2018, Musk paid a $250000 (1.7 million yuan) hush fee to a stewardess through his US Space Exploration Technology company, according to upstream news reports. to settle charges of misconduct against Musk.
Source | Daily Economic News
According to reports, the stewardess is a flight attendant who works for the SpaceX corporate jet fleet under contract. According to interviews and documents obtained, she accused Musk of exposing her private parts, stroking her legs without consent, and offering to buy her a horse in exchange for an erotic massage.
The stewardess exposed the Masque sex scandal
It says the hush fee is 250000 dollars.
According to reports, the incident took place in 2016, when a friend of the flight attendant signed a statement ready to support her allegations. Details of the report come from this statement and other documents.
According to the statement, the stewardess revealed to her friends that after accepting a job as a stewardess, she was encouraged to apply for a masseuse license so that she could massage Musk. She told the friend that Musk had asked for sex when he was massaging him in a private cabin on his Gulfstream G650ER.
In 2018, the stewardess hired a California employment lawyer and sent a complaint to the company's human resources department detailing the incident.
Her complaint was resolved quickly after a mediator's mediation meeting, which Musk attended in person. The matter never entered the court or arbitration proceedings. In November 2018, Musk, SpaceX and the stewardess reached a separation agreement to pay $250000 to the flight attendant. In exchange, the stewardess promised not to sue Musk.
In response to the old story of the US media, Musk recently emailed that he needed more time to reply to the accusation, saying that "there is still a lot of content in this story." if I have a tendency to sexual harassment, this is unlikely to be the first time in my 30-year career.
Musk said on his personal Twitter that "attacks on me should be viewed from a political point of view," and he topped another tweet: "in the past, I voted for the Democratic Party because they were mostly good parties. But they have become parties of division and hatred, so I can no longer support them. I will vote for the Republican Party. Now, look at their dirty tricks against me. "
Tesla was removed from the S & P 500ESG index.
Musk called ESG a hoax.
Recently, Musk didn't seem to be feeling well. Tesla was removed from the S & P ESG by Standard & Poor's Dow Jones Indices, thepaper.citing Reuters reported on May 18. The reason is that Tesla is currently being accused of racial discrimination and is under regulatory investigation into his autopilot-related car accident.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk responded with a series of tweets calling ESG a hoax and saying S & P global ratings had no professional ethics. In his tweet, Musk quoted a satire that ESG was pandering to leftists and said, "Tesla contributes far more to the environment than other companies."
In another tweet, he wrote, "Exxon (ExxonMobil, the global oil and gas giant) ranks among the top 10 environmental, social and corporate governance (ESG) in the world, but Tesla is not on the list at all! ESG is a hoax. It has become a weapon for false fighters of social justice. "
It was Mr Musk's second attack on ESG in nearly a month. In early April, Mr Musk attacked ESG for being false and meaningless because some oil companies had higher ESG ratings than Tesla.
Then, a member of Tesla's board of directors clarified Musk's remarks, saying that Tesla was not condemning ESG investment, but urged ESG rating to fairly assess the positive and negative impact of companies, and the current rating often focuses on reducing the negative impact while ignoring the positive impact.
According to the official website, the S & P 500 ESG will be launched in 2019. The S & P ESG takes into account the S & P Dow ESG score, market capitalization and other factors. The goal of the S & P ESG is to cover a wide range of companies in the S & P 500, maintain similar returns and provide better ESG characteristics.
Tesla's share price is down more than 40% from its peak.
"Best retail investors" call for share buyback
Tesla's share price fell below the $700 mark again before trading on May 19, local time. As of the close of the day, Tesla's share price fell slightly by 0.05% to $709.42 per share.
Tesla's share price has fallen more than 40 per cent from its all-time high of $1243.49 in November.
Tesla's share price continued to fall, and billionaire Leo Koguan (Liao Kaiyuan), known as Tesla's "best retail investor", called on social media on Thursday that Tesla should immediately announce his plan to buy back 15 billion US dollars (100 billion yuan) of shares, according to the Securities Times.
Leo Koguan said in a tweet to Martin Viecha, Tesla's senior director of investor relations, that Tesla should immediately announce plans to buy back $5 billion of shares this year and $10 billion next year.
Mr Liao also said Tesla should use his free cash flow to invest in buybacks to avoid using the company's existing $18 billion cash reserves.
Tesla's share price has fallen more than 30 per cent this year. In addition to the macro factors affecting the US stock market, the sharp fall in Tesla's share price has something to do with CEO Elon Musk's plan to buy Twitter.
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