by David Greenberg at The Daily Financial Trends
Elon Musk has told the court hearing Twitter’s lawsuit against him that Twitter is hiding key witnesses in their legal battle, which he will need to call to prove he should be released from the $44 billion buyout deal.
Musk is maintaining that Twitter has expressly refused to identify the employees who it assigned to evaluate how much of Twitter’s user base is made up of spam and bot accounts, according to sources which chose to remain anonymous, because they were not cleared to speak on the matter.
Musk’s lawyers have asked the judge to direct Twitter to identify the workers so the defense can subpoena their records and begin questioning them.
Musk’s lawyer filed the request Tuesday, in a letter to Delaware Chancery Court Judge Kathleen St. J. McCormick. Twitter’s lawyers will be given five days to decide what should be redacted from the filing as proprietary information under the business court’s rules.
A Twitter spokesman decline to comment on the report.
The filing comes on the heels of…
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