https://www.mercurynews.com/2019/02/19/for-tesla-effects-of-elon-musks-take-private-tweet-continue/ > Tesla and CEO Elon Musk settled with the SEC last year over Musk’s tweets about taking the company private, but the fallout isn’t over. > The electric-car company said in a filing Tuesday that it “substantially paid by the end of 2018” $30.1 million in settlement and legal expenses related to Musk’s public statements about a plan to take Tesla private, which did not materialize.