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At least five members of the University of Alabama football team have tested positive for the coronavirus as training resumes.

For those anxiously anticipating the beginning of college football, you got good news today. The Southeastern Conference approved voluntary on-campus workouts for student-athletes beginning on June 8th.

The ACC, Big 10, Big 12, SEC, and Pac-12, all canceled their conference tournaments on Thursday.

A former Tesla employee has filed a formal whistleblower complaint with the SEC alleging that Tesla failed to disclose that authorities had discovered an alleged drug trafficking scheme involving an employee at the firm’s “Gigafactory” plant in Nevada. Among the other claims in the complaint, the whistleblower also describes the theft of more than $37 million worth of copper from Elon Musk’s Nevada facility.

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey reportedly asked Tesla CEO Elon Musk how he should fix the social media platform, Musk reportedly told Dorsey that “bots and troll armies” were the issue to focus on.

Warren wants a federal probe into whether President Trump provided advance notice of the strike to people who then traded stocks.

It’s no secret that the SEC Conference has dominated pretty much everyone in college football — with the exception of Clemson — in recent years.

Microsoft has paid out $25 million to settle a U.S. government investigation into alleged bribery by former employees in Hungary.

Disgraced former CEO Elizabeth Holmes will stand trial for her role in the now infamous collapse of her startup Theranos, which falsely claimed that it had revolutionized medical blood testing. She faces up to 20 years in prison for fraud, with her trial occurring next year.

An SEC commissioner recently criticized the deal that the agency reached with Tesla CEO Elon Musk.

Former Volkswagen CEO Martin Winterkorn was charged in Germany this week for his alleged role in the massive diesel-rigging scandal that was first reported on in 2015.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk recently shared a video of a Tesla owner blatantly disregarding the company’s safety instructions and sitting in the passenger seat of a Tesla vehicle on autopilot mode.

Elon Musk’s Tesla saw a sharp drop in its share price Thursday as the company announced first-quarter car deliveries that fell well below expectations.

The SEC has reportedly stated that Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s contempt of court defense “borders on ridiculous.”

The SEC has reportedly charged Volkswagen and the company’s former CEO with defrauding their investors.

According to a recent report from the New York Times, tech giant Facebook is under criminal investigation for a number of data deals with other major tech firms. The New York Times recently reported that federal prosecutors are conducting a criminal investigation

Bloomberg published an article recently outlining the lengths that Tesla CEO Elon Musk went to in order to punish Tesla whistleblower Martin Tripp.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk has accused the SEC of making an “unconstitutional power grab” after the agency filed contempt of court charges over his social media posts.

Tesla’s former head of the Global Security Operations Center & Investigations, Sean Gouthro, has reportedly filed a whistleblower submission with the SEC in relation to his time at Tesla, including new details about Musk’s infamous “funding secured” tweet.

Shortly before he is due in court to defend himself against contempt charges from the SEC, Tesla CEO Elon Musk has stated that the decision to hold a private teleconference where important Tesla news was revealed was a “mistake.”

Elon Musk’s Tesla revealed this week that the company is closing all of its retail stores and only selling cars online, while also finally released the $35,000 Tesla Model 3, and slashing prices on most other models at the same time.

In a recent article, CNBC noted that Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s latest tweets — which may see him held in contempt of his SEC settlement — prove that the company’s board can’t or won’t control him.

The SEC has asked a federal judge to hold Tesla CEO Elon Musk in contempt over his recent production boasts, claiming the embattled CEO has “not made a diligent or good faith effort” to comply with the settlement he agreed to. 

Business Insider reports that Tesla’s board of directors is not doing a particularly good job of policing CEO Elon Musk’s social media posts, one of the main requirements of both Musk and Tesla’s SEC settlement.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk, who has previously been in hot water with the SEC for his reckless social media posts, recently tweeted Tesla production guidance for 2019 before retracting the figures just hours later.

Just two months after Tesla hired its new General Counsel, Dane Butswinkas, the lawyer announced his plans to leave Elon Musk’s company and return to his law firm, Williams & Connolly.

A recent report claims that Tesla CEO Elon Musk is doing his best to avoid his girlfriend — popular singer Grimes — from being included in investigations related to a lawsuit over his infamous “funding secured” tweet.

Elon Musk has a history of well documented personal vendettas against many people and organizations. This does not bode well for the future of his companies, as demonstrated in a recent 60 Minutes interview.

In an interview on 60 Minutes, Sunday, Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk declared, “I do not respect the SEC,” after settling with the government agency in September over a Twitter post accused of constituting “fraud.”

Tesla’s General Counsel Todd Maron is reportedly leaving Elon Musk’s electric car manufacturer, and will be replaced by seasoned trial attorney Dane Butswinkas, who called Tesla “worth fighting for.”

According to a recent report, General Electric, Tesla Inc. and Snap Inc. are all facing accounting investigations by the DOJ and SEC.

Floyd Mayweather Jr. and DJ Khaled have been charged with unlawfully promoting cryptocurrency initial coin offerings, according to a press release from the SEC.

Following the appointment of Robyn Denholm as the chairman of Tesla’s board, replaced CEO Elon Musk. The move was a requirement of Musk’s settlement with the SEC over his infamous “funding secured” tweet, but she will not take over the chairman spot for six months.

In a surprising and confusing move, Tesla CEO Elon Musk has removed his official titles from both Tesla and SpaceX, dubbing himself the official “Nothing of Tesla.”

Tesla CEO Elon Musk said in a recent statement that the tweet he posted which cost him and his company $20 million each in SEC fines was “worth it.”

The Wall Street Journal published an article Friday stating that the probe into Elon Musk’s Tesla has deepened as the FBI aims to determine whether or not the company misstated its vehicle production figures.