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Wait "contingent on a background check"? This is the founder of SpaceX a contractor with NASA and DoD and you're gonna run measly background check on him? He mo

• pcmoney 5y ago
  What is really interesting is that phrase’s presence in that message makes it seem like he did not pass it. That seems like a PR move, maybe to mislead and save face, maybe to indicate what went down.
• ergocoder 5y ago
  He did not pass the background check because he claimed to co-found Tesla. Here: https://www.tesla.com/elon-musk https://www.tesla.com/elon-musk -- "Elon Musk co-founded and leads Tesla" But actually he wasn't a co-founder. He simply bought shares of Tesla 1 year after it was founded. This is the red flag, so he failed the background check. True story.
  • thepasswordis 5y ago
    >A lawsuit settlement agreed to by Eberhard and Tesla in September 2009 allows all five – Eberhard, Tarpenning, Wright, Musk, and Straubel – to call themselves co-founders.[15] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla,_Inc.#Founding_(2003%E2%80%932004) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla,_Inc.#Founding_(2003%E2%...
    • ergocoder 5y ago
      That is so twisted.
• kevin_thibedeau 5y ago
  He shouldn't have any clearance given his continual violation of federal law nobody else is given a pass on.
• techsupporter 5y ago
  > He most likely has an active TS clearance and works with ITAR. Not necessarily. It's as equally likely that he does not have any clearances and could not pass a background check, either with the government or the kind that Twitter's regulatory compliance people want. In the case of companies that do work with the Department of Defense, it is not unusual for managers to have people who work for them who hold clearances but the managers themselves don't. Where I work, we operate a medical clinic in a federal facility and some of our staff have access to federal employee patient data. As a result, some of our physicians and nursing staff have a clearance as does one of our practice managers and some of our technical staff, but no one else does. Also, remember that Musk has publicly consumed drugs that are illegal at the federal level and had some very visible run-ins with the SEC. Some federal investigators and companies would not have a problem with that, others very much would.
  • kylecordes 5y ago
    It might be a simple as: background check that the potential board member has no current or recent SEC matters. That seems like the kind of thing a company might reasonably not want in a board member.
  • soheil 5y ago
    So you smoke pot on video and you can't be on Twitter's board? Visible run-ins with the SEC is cause for rejecting a board candidate? For none of these claims you provide references. If there is a company foolish enough to adopt these policies it'd be sued out of existence. Or maybe we're about to witness the first occurrence of it.
    • elSidCampeador 5y ago
      Visible run-ins led to a settlement, btw - https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2018-226 https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2018-226
    • leetcrew 5y ago
      you're missing the context of the thread: > He most likely has an active TS clearance and works with ITAR. it's very unlikely (though not impossible for Elon, I guess) that someone could retain a TS clearance after smoking weed in a highly publicized video.
• throwaway39485 5y ago
  He's also been charged with securities fraud by the SEC and has a massive black mark on his record. Specifically related to content that he posted on Twitter. I guess that doesn't disqualify someone from joining the board though.
  • angled 5y ago
    “Do you have your own division at the SEC?”
• nikolay 5y ago
  He definitely would not pass if that check includes a drug test.