On Monday, Musk’s authorized workforce despatched a letter to Twitter highlighting Zatko’s claims, which had been solely reported by CNN and The Washington Publish final week. Zatko served as Twitter’s head of safety from November 2020 till his firing from the corporate in January.
Musk’s letter, which was disclosed in a Securities and Change Fee submitting, factors to Zatko’s allegations that Twitter is in violation of its 2011 consent order with the Federal Commerce Fee; that the corporate suffers from grave safety vulnerabilities; that it has violated mental property rights; and that it has consented to hiring Indian authorities brokers beneath stress by the nation.
Musk alleges that the allegations, if true, characterize breaches of Twitter’s facet of the acquisition discount and will enable him to again out of the deal. The extra justifications outlined within the Aug. 29 letter are along with, not as a substitute of, the justifications Musk cited when he first introduced he was in search of to withdraw, his authorized workforce stated in an SEC submitting.
CNN has reached out to Twitter for remark. In direct response to Musk, Twitter despatched its personal letter on Tuesday rejecting the billionaire entrepreneur’s newest try and scrap the deal, calling it “invalid and wrongful.”
Musk’s letter, Twitter wrote, “is predicated solely on statements made by a 3rd occasion that, as Twitter has beforehand said, are riddled with inconsistencies and inaccuracies and lack essential context.”
Authorized consultants have stated Zatko’s allegations would very seemingly play a task within the litigation between Musk and Twitter; the corporate has requested a Delaware court docket to power Musk to undergo with the deal.
Zatko has been subpoenaed by Musk’s authorized workforce and is predicted to seem for a deposition on Sept. 9.
