{"id":298506,"date":"2018-10-29T19:47:49","date_gmt":"2018-10-29T23:47:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/uncategorized\/fbis-tesla-criminal-probe-reportedly-centers-on-model-3-production.php"},"modified":"2018-10-29T19:47:49","modified_gmt":"2018-10-29T23:47:49","slug":"fbis-tesla-criminal-probe-reportedly-centers-on-model-3-production","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/futurism\/fbis-tesla-criminal-probe-reportedly-centers-on-model-3-production.php","title":{"rendered":"FBI\u2019s Tesla Criminal Probe Reportedly Centers on Model 3 Production"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p><h2>Ups and Downs<\/h2><p>Can we please get off Mr. Musk&rsquo;s Wild Ride now? We don&rsquo;t know how much more of this Tesla rollercoaster we can take.<\/p><p>In 2018 alone, Elon Musk&rsquo;s clean energy company has endured a <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/fluff-caused-teslas-model-3-delays\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">faulty flufferbot<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2018-05-03\/elon-musk-s-most-dumbfounding-moments-on-tesla-s-earnings-call\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">furious investors<\/a>, and an <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/sec-lawsuit-elon-musk-highlights\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SEC probe and settlement.<\/a>&nbsp;But there was good news, too. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/business\/la-fi-hy-tesla-model-3-20181002-story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Model 3 deliveries reportedly increased<\/a>, and just this week, we found out that Tesla had a <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/the-byte\/ride-hailing-tesla-elon-musk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">historic financial quarter<\/a>, generating $312 million in profit.<\/p><p>And now we&rsquo;re plummeting again.<\/p><h2>Closing In<\/h2><p>On Friday, <em>The Wall Street Journal<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/tesla-faces-deepening-criminal-probe-over-whether-it-misstated-production-figures-1540576636?mod=hp_lead_pos2&amp;ns=prod\/accounts-wsj\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a> that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is deepening a criminal probe into whether Tesla &ldquo;misstated information about production of its Model 3 sedans and misled investors about the company&rsquo;s business going back to early 2017.&rdquo;<\/p><p>We&rsquo;ve known about the FBI&rsquo;s Tesla criminal probe&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/tesla-says-it-received-a-voluntary-request-for-documents-from-the-doj-1537291596\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">since September 18<\/a>, but this is the first report confirming that Model 3 production is at the center of the investigation.<\/p><p>According to the <em>WSJ&rsquo;s<\/em> sources, FBI agents have been reaching out to former Tesla employees in recent weeks to ask if they&rsquo;d be willing to testify in the criminal case, though no word yet on whether any have agreed.<\/p><h2>Casual CEO<\/h2><p>We might be having trouble keeping up with these twists and turns, but Musk seems to be taking the FBI&rsquo;s&nbsp;Tesla criminal probe all in stride&nbsp;&mdash; he spent much of Friday afternoon joking around with his Twitter followers about <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1055517521082609664\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">dank memes<\/a>.<\/p><p>Clearly he has the stomach for this, but it&rsquo;d be hard to blame any Tesla investors for deciding they&rsquo;d had enough.<\/p><p><strong>READ MORE:<\/strong>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/tesla-faces-deepening-criminal-probe-over-whether-it-misstated-production-figures-1540576636?mod=hp_lead_pos2&amp;ns=prod\/accounts-wsj\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tesla Faces Deepening Criminal Probe Over Whether It Misstated Production Figures<\/a> [<em>The Wall Street Journal<\/em>]<\/p><p><em><strong>More on Tesla:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/the-byte\/ride-hailing-tesla-elon-musk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Elon Musk Says Your Tesla Will Earn You Money While You Sleep<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-assets.futurism.com\/2018\/10\/auto-tesla-1200x630.jpg\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/p><p>View original post here:<br><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/tesla-criminal-probe-fbi\" title=\"FBI&rsquo;s Tesla Criminal Probe Reportedly Centers on Model 3 Production\">FBI&rsquo;s Tesla Criminal Probe Reportedly Centers on Model 3 Production<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Ups and Downs Can we please get off Mr. Musk\u2019s Wild Ride now? We don\u2019t know how much more of this Tesla rollercoaster we can take <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/futurism\/fbis-tesla-criminal-probe-reportedly-centers-on-model-3-production.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-298506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298506"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=298506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298506\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}