U.S. regulators seek to compel Elon Musk to testify in their investigation of his Twitter acquisition

SAN FRANCISCO –

The Securities and Exchange Commission says it’s looking for a court docket order that may compel Elon Musk to testify as a part of an investigation into his buy of Twitter, now referred to as X.

The SEC mentioned in a Thursday submitting in a San Francisco federal court docket that Musk failed to seem for testimony on Sept. 15.

The company mentioned that was regardless of Musk being served an investigative subpoena by the SEC and having raised no objections on the time it was served.

Musk’s lawyer, Alex Spiro, mentioned that the SEC has already taken Musk’s testimony a number of occasions.