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The Crimes and Lies of Elon Musk THE CRIMES AND LIES OF ELON MUSK 1 Table of Contents Elon Musk, his lawyers, CPA’s and Goldman Sach’s insiders were hacked..............................................3 The World’s Biggest Government Funds Mooch.......................................................................................5 Elon Musk is a techno-criminal and master stock market manipulator..............................................11 Let’s Count Elon Musk’s Lies And Scams...............................................................................................13 The Musk Spin.........................................................................................................................................57 The Musk Conundrum.............................................................................................................................63 Elon Musk’s Mental Problems.................................................................................................................66 How evil is Musk? What are his Machiavellian traits and signs of psychopathy...............................69 From Little Elon To Big Douche-Bag – The Musk Life Cycle...............................................................71 The Vendetta’s And Attacks By The Very Vengeful Elon Musk..............................................................88 References And Evidence Links..............................................................................................................91 Civil Notices..........................................................................................................................................380 Revision 4.2 – Stay Tuned For Additional Updates This document has been delivered to the Director of the FBI, The Attorney General, The heads of the FTC, FEC, GAO, SEC and Congress. EVERYBODY, including every voter, now has this information so that no agency can say “they didn’t know” these facts”. 2 Elon Musk, his lawyers, CPA’s and Goldman Sach’s insiders were hacked. It is widely verified by the U.S. DOJ, The FBI, The CIA and InterPol that hackers such as Wang Dong, Sun Kailiang, Wen Xinyu, Huang Zhenyu, and Gu Chunhui, who were officers in Unit 61398 of the Third Department of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) who waltzed through corporate servers with ease. Aleksei Sergeyevich Morenets, 41, Evgenii Mikhaylovich, Serebriakov, 37, Ivan Sergeyevich Yermakov, 32, Artem Andreyevich Malyshev, 30, and Dmitriy Sergeyevich Badin, 27, who were each assigned to Military Unit 26165, and Oleg Mikhaylovich Sotnikov, 46, and Alexey Valerevich Minin, 46, who were also GRU officers, also raged through corporate servers with impunity. Hackers-for-hire including Kevin David Mitnick, Adrian Lamo, Albert Gonzalez, Matthew Bevan, Richard Pryce, Jeanson James Ancheta, Michael Calce, Kevin Poulsen, Jonathan James, The hacker known as ASTRA, The hacker known as GUCIFER, The hacker known as ANON 4CHAN and THOUSANDS of other individuals had free access and free reign throughout every corporate and email server and every government server via the SPECTRE, EMOTET, PRIME ROOTKIT, SERCOMM BACKDOOR, NOTPETYA, SOLARWINDS “DOORS”, MELTDOWN, MASTERKEY, RYZENFALL, FALLOUT, CHIMERA, hacking tools. They used hundreds of back doors and penetration vulnerabilities in Cisco, Intel, Juniper Networks, AMD, and other equipment. Those vulnerabilities still exist today because CFO’s refuse to replace all of the network equipment because it would “require too much paper-work”. Additionally, all of the core server penetration tools used by Fire-Eye Security, the CIA and the NSA were hacked by foreign nations and their core source code posted on the internet for all to use. Because Elon Musk is such a narcissistic self-promoting maniac, Musk drew the attention of every hacker in the world. Elon Musk, Tesla Motors, SpaceX and Musk’s ex-wives, girlfriends, hookers, lawyers, CPA’s, investment bankers and Palo Alto buddies have been deeply and pervasively hacked. The hackers have begun posting Elon Musk’s dirty secrets on the internet. Tens of millions of pages of emails, financial records, covert political financing documents, safety cover-ups, Palo Alto venture capital collusion, and other interesting bits, have started showing up. Additionally, a huge number of fraud, abuse, negligence and racketeering lawsuits have been filed against Elon Musk and his dirty little empire. Those records are easily found in court records and on www.pacer.gov. When you peek behind the curtain in the magical fantasy technology world of Elon Musk you find that the entire emerald utopia is built out of bribes, payola and crony tech Illuminati stock market manipulations. Elon Musk’s ‘wizardry’ is 20% other people’s stolen technologies and 80% bullshit! He has purchased his internet PR facade with billions of dollars of the taxpayer’s cash and keeps his self aggrandizing front going with extensive contracted off-shore troll farms and stock market “flash boy” 3 algorithm computer hype engines. His cars and rockets blow-up. His brain chip comes with the torture death of hundreds of helpless animals. All of “his technologies” were stolen from the original inventors. His existence is based on government money mooching and political quid pro quo stock market bribes to Senators, White House executives and Energy Department staff. Any tech person could do every single thing that Elon Musk has done with ONE THIRD LESS cash than Elon Musk has plowed through. So where does the rest of the money go? It goes to political candidates in ILLEGAL quid pro quo money laundering Dark Money conduits! Musk’s operation pays bribes to law enforcement insiders, regulatory insiders, Senators and the White House in order to keep him from getting arrested. The biggest icon of America’s failure of the Justice system is the fact that Elon Musk is not in federal prison. 4 The World’s Biggest Government Funds Mooch Taxpayer money taken by Tesla Motors , which politicians own interest in and also get secret PAC money from: $3B-CA Factory Subsidy $1.3B-NV tax incentive $45M-Discounted DOE Loan $90M-CA Alternative energy advanced trans. financing authority $517.2M-Sale of CA and other regulatory credits $284M-Federal income Tax credits for consumers of Model S Sedan $38M-CA rebate for CA buyers of Model S Sedan $126M-CA Self Generation incentive program $647,626-CA job training reimbursement Total Subsidy=$5,355,847,626 BILLION AND COUNTING Taxpayer money taken by Elon Musk via SolarCity, which politicians own interest in and also get secret PAC money from: 5 $750M-NY State cost to build solar panel factory $150M- to start NY Factory Operation $1.5B-Est. value of 30% subsidy for solar installation since 2006, including at least $497M- in Treasury grants $5.6M-OR tax credits & rebates $260M- NY local property tax exemptions Total Subsidy=$3,163,100,000 BILLION AND COUNTING Taxpayer money taken by Elon Musk via SpaceX, which politicians own interest in and also get secret PAC money from: $20M- TX state & local incentives & rebates for space launch facility near Brownsville $5.5B– Government Contracts $1.6B- NASA space taxi contract Total Subsidy= $7,120,000,000 BILLION AND COUNTING Know that everything you have seen in the main stream news media about Elon Musk was bought and placed there by Elon Musk. Elon Musk is a figment of his own propaganda, Chinese click farms, his hired troll “fan boys” and his sociopathy. A Question for Tesla’s Board: What Was Elon Musk’s Mental State? By James B. Stewart Mr. Musk’s tweet last week — expressing his intent to take Tesla private and declaring that he had “funding secured” for the multibillion-dollar transaction — was so impulsive, potentially inaccurate, poorly worded and thought out, and with such potentially dire consequences for himself, Tesla and its shareholders, that the board now must ask a sensitive but vital question: What was Mr. Musk’s state of mind when he wrote it? “What does this say about the judgment of the person who set all this in motion?” said Charles M. Elson, director of the Weinberg Center for Corporate Governance at the University of Delaware. “That’s what the board has to find out.” Read the full article here Elon Musk needs to recognize his limitations and bring in a strong No. 2 to help run Tesla: Analysts Tesla co-founder and CEO Elon Musk must recognize he can’t do it all and agree to bring in a strong No. 2 to run day-to-day operations at the electric automaker, leading analysts told CNBC on Tuesday. 6 “We think he’s going through a founder’s dilemma. He’s clearly stretched too thin,” Consumer Edge Research analyst James Albertine said on “Squawk Box.” “I think this is Elon going through personal issues, having his own struggles with the bears, very publicly.” Musk had been acting acting erratically for months even before his take-private tweet two weeks ago, which raised concerns among investors and regulators in Washington. In May, Musk rudely cut off analysts on Tesla’s first-quarter earnings call, something he apologized for on the second-quarter call earlier this month. He was also launching tweetstorm after tweetstorm all summer long as he was dealing with major production problems for the automaker’s new, less expensive sedan, the Model 3. The board needs to bring in a chief operating officer or co-CEO to take some of the pressures off of Musk and allow him to concentrate on being a “brilliant leader as a visionary,” contended Albertine, who on Tuesday downgraded Tesla stock to equal weight and reduced his 12-month price
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