Elon Musk’s Biggest Fails of 2018
As Elon Musk and his companies — Tesla, SpaceX, and The Boring Company — enter a sure to be turbulent 2019, Breitbart News has chosen to reflect on just a few of Elon Musk’s biggest fails throughout 2018.

As Elon Musk and his companies — Tesla, SpaceX, and The Boring Company — enter a sure to be turbulent 2019, Breitbart News has chosen to reflect on just a few of Elon Musk’s biggest fails throughout 2018.

Bitcoin’s 3,000 percent profit, heavily concentrated ownership, and thin trading markets could be setting up the first crypto-currency for a manipulative “pump and dump” disaster.

Bret Bielema was welcomed to Arkansas by thousands of fans during a Razorbacks basketball game, and in return he promised to deliver the school’s first Southeastern Conference football championship.

Kerryon Johnson and the Auburn Tigers delivered an emphatic statement to the rest of the Southeastern Conference: Don’t forget us.

The U.S. Justice Department has reportedly opened a criminal investigation into the sale of Equifax stock by high-ranking executives just days before the company revealed they had been the subject of a massive data breach.

Standing 6’4 and weighing in at 286, Jaheim Oatis has become one of the most sought after recruits in the SEC.

Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV), a West Virginia Democrat up for re-election next year, is urging President Donald Trump’s administration to block the sale of the Chicago Stock Exchange to Chinese investors.

The Tesla Model 3 sedan is on track to introduce the world’s top safety features — if the company doesn’t collapse financially before many of the cars reach the market.

A federal district judge nominated by President Obama has dismissed the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s entire civil securities fraud case against Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton. The judge dismissed the case with prejudice.

Started by two roommates in a Stanford dorm in 2011, Snapchat’s parent, Snap, Inc., filed with the SEC last week for a $3 billion initial public offering (IPO), but admit the company may never make a profit.

Lawyers for Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton have filed a motion asking a federal judge to stop the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) continued harassment and fishing expedition where there is no evidence.

President-elect Donald Trump confirmed reports that he would choose Wall Street lawyer Jay Clayton as Chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Given that the Donald Trump victory already made Yahoo less attractive for Verizon, the latest billion-account-hack at Yahoo could let Verizon dump their buy-out and still collect a $145 million break-up fee.

The College Football Playoff Selection Committee released its first set of rankings on Tuesday. For the most part it looked the way we expected it to look, with one very notable exception, but more on that in a minute.

A federal judge hearing the case from the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) against Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said he wonders if the prosecution is trying to fit a “square peg in a round hole.”

Disgraced Theranos Inc. founder and CEO Elizabeth Holmes has resigned from President Barack Obama’s Presidential Ambassadors for Global Entrepreneurship advisory board.

The Securities and Exchange Commission has opened an investigation regarding Tesla Motors Inc. potentially breaching U.S. securities laws by failing quickly to disclose that a Model S driver died watching a Harry Potter DVD with the car’s autopilot engaged.

A lawyer who previously served as the chief litigator in the enforcement division at the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), filed a motion to dismiss the SEC civil lawsuit against Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton on Thursday. He writes, “In short, the SEC’s claims against Mr. Paxton are a dramatic overreach and lack any basis in law.”

The once $9-billion-valued Theranos appears to have admitted that its blood test data was faulty and is moving to restate two years of test results for 3 million patients.

On Thursday, medical testing company Theranos announced the departure of its president and chief operations officer, Sunny Balwani, even as a swarm of federal and state regulatory agencies descend upon the company.

The U.S. Attorney’s Office and Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) have opened criminal and civil probes into blood-testing company Theranos, just days after reports that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services were proposing to shutter its labs and ban its founder from the medical testing business.

The annual report from the National Football Association finds that for the 18th season in a row the SEC had the highest attendance in the sport averaging 78,630 fans per home game.

No. 1 ranked Buddy Hield outscored No. 2 ranked Ben Simmons 32-14 to lead No. 1 Oklahoma to a last-second 77-75 road win at LSU.

In fiscal 2015, the first year of the College Football Playoff system, the SEC raked in a stunning $527.4 million.

The New York Post reports on the latest case from the much-abused EB-5 “investor’s visa” program, which the open-borders lobby routinely insists is working just fine.

The SEC battered four Bowl opponents, going 4-1 with an average score of 39-18 to return to the dominance of the past decade, leaving the Pac-12 as the only other conference with a chance to catch the SEC by the end of bowl season

The tech sector is no longer the hottest place to be on the stock market. Initial public offerings (IPOs) have plummeted in tech in 2015, putting the sector behind health care and financial companies.

Former Florida Governor Jeb Bush is mixing his campaign for president with SEC football by announcing a series of tailgate events at Tennessee, Alabama, and Mississippi State games.

A notice filed by special prosecutors in the securities fraud cases against Texas Attorney General Paxton raises potentially exculpatory, as well as damaging evidence. Clint Broden, a lawyer from Dallas who is double-board certified in criminal law told Breitbart Texas, “The notice could be a double-edged sword.”

University of South Carolina Gamecocks coach Steve Spurrier says that he supports removing the Confederate flag from public spaces and even thinks that “all” the coaches in South Carolina support the move.

The 14 Southeastern Conference schools will receive a record payout of $31.2 million this year, authorities say.
On Tuesday, the Securities and Exchange Commission announced it was charging ITT Educational Services Inc., its chief executive officer Kevin Modany, and its chief financial officer Daniel Fitzpatrick with fraud, alleging that they hid from the company’s investors the how badly two student loan programs were performing.

Mississippi State standout quarterback Dak Prescott and two other teammates Damian Williams and Torrey Dale were viciously assaulted in Panama City Beach, Florida while attending a Waka Flocka concert during Spring Break.
