Elon Musk is under a federal investigation relating to his $44 billion takeover deal of Twitter
ELON MUSK SAGA- According to a court filing made public by Twitter, the social media company wants Musk’s attorneys to produce their communications with federal authorities.
Twitter said this they asked months ago but they had not done so yet, so Twitter asked a Delaware judge to order the attorneys to provide the documents.
“Elon Musk is presently under investigation by federal authorities for his conduct in connection with the acquisition of Twitter...
Through counsel, he has exchanged substantive correspondence with those authorities concerning their investigations…
Twitter wants those documents, because they bear upon key issues in this litigation.”
attorneys for Potter Anderson Corroon LLP
In late September, Musk’s attorneys provided a “privilege log” identifying documents to be withheld from discovery.
The court request was filed on the same day the court granted a stay of litigation to allow Twitter and Musk to close the takeover deal.
Twitter’s attorneys insist producing the essential documents would in fact, “create no real burden, because they are a discrete set of easily identifiable materials within the files of the attorneys who wrote, reviewed, or received them.”
