Author: Nicole Karlis / Source: Salon
After a series of public mishaps, including an incident in which he baselessly called a rescue diver a “pedophile,” entrepreneur and Tesla CEO Elon Musk has been out of the public eye. Now, a new Bloomberg report reveals that, far from learning from his public mistakes, Musk has been working behind the scenes to silence a whistleblower at one of his Tesla factories.
Titled “When Elon Musk Tried to Destroy a Tesla Whistleblower,” Matt Robinson and Zeke Faux report on disconcerting allegations in which Musk allegedly “stewed for weeks, dispatching a team of investigators to try to figure out who’d [leaked] information.” The leak in question referred to a report from Business Insider on June 4, 2018 claiming that Tesla Inc. was reworking 40 percent of the raw materials at its large factory in the Nevada desert. Tesla denied the report at the time, though it seems to have internally infuriated Musk.
According to the Bloomberg report, Musk and his team of investigators determined employee Martin Tripp had leaked the information. This led the company to sue Tripp for $167 million. In addition to the lawsuit, Tripp received a visit from the Storey County, Nevada, sheriff’s department, who told him that an anonymous caller had called the police to say he was planning a mass shooting at the factory.
Bloomberg explains:
When the police confronted Tripp that evening, he was unarmed and in tears….
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