San Francisco | It took only a couple of tweets to plunge Elon Musk into the morass of a securities fraud trial that could cost him billions of dollars from his rapidly diminishing fortune.
The Tesla chief executive officer is set to be the star witness at a jury trial that starts on Tuesday (Wednesday AEDT) in San Francisco federal court over his infamous tweets more than four years ago about a plan to take the electric-car maker private with “funding secured”.