{"id":2303,"date":"2018-09-18T16:16:39","date_gmt":"2018-09-18T16:16:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/tesla-shares-hit-by-criminal-probe-report\/"},"modified":"2018-09-18T16:16:39","modified_gmt":"2018-09-18T16:16:39","slug":"tesla-shares-hit-by-criminal-probe-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/tesla-shares-hit-by-criminal-probe-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Tesla shares hit by criminal probe report"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div property=\"articleBody\">\n<figure class=\"media-landscape no-caption full-width lead\"><span class=\"image-and-copyright-container\"><\/p>\n<p>                <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"js-image-replace\" alt=\"Tesla Motors Inc Chief Executive Elon Musk pauses during a news conference in Tokyo September 8, 2014.\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/320\/cpsprodpb\/126B0\/production\/_102904457_hi048578541.jpg\" width=\"976\" height=\"549\"\/><span class=\"off-screen\">Image copyright<\/span><br \/>\n                 <span class=\"story-image-copyright\">Reuters<\/span><\/p>\n<p>            <\/span><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"story-body__introduction\">Tesla shares have fallen after a report that the electric car-maker and its boss Elon Musk face a criminal probe.<\/p>\n<p>Bloomberg reported that the US Justice Department has opened a fraud inquiry triggered by Mr Musk&#8217;s tweets about de-listing the company<\/p>\n<p>Mr Musk said he had &#8220;funding secured&#8221; to de-list the company, but later dropped the plan.<\/p>\n<p>The firm&#8217;s shares fell more than 4% after the report, which cited confidential sources.<\/p>\n<p>Tesla was already facing a civil investigation from financial regulators at the Securities and Exchange Commission due to the claims.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/business-45566365\">Source<\/a> by <a href=\"\">[author_name]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image copyright Reuters Tesla shares have fallen after a report that the electric car-maker and its boss Elon Musk face a criminal probe. Bloomberg reported that the US Justice Department has opened a fraud inquiry triggered by Mr Musk&#8217;s tweets about de-listing the company Mr Musk said he had &#8220;funding secured&#8221; to de-list the company, &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1968,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2303\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}