Musk’s X acquisition: Judge rejects idea billionaire too busy for SEC probe

Elon Musk appears unlikely to avoid another round of questioning in the US Securities and Exchange Commission’s investigation of his 2022 Twitter Inc. acquisition despite the billionaire’s complaint that the agency was harassing him.

A federal judge in San Francisco seemed unpersuaded by arguments that Musk shouldn’t have to devote more of his time meeting with the SEC because he already spent two partial days in earlier rounds of questioning.

“Are you saying then that Mr. Musk, because he’s a very important, busy person, that the SEC can’t investigate him?” US District Judge Jacqueline Scott Corley said during a hearing Thursday.