June 22, 2018
Tesla Motors Inc.'s in-house counsel thinks the restitution amount available to cover a six-figure internal investigation into a former employee's conduct is "not meaningful enough to be worthwhile" after the Supreme Court's recent Lagos ruling, according a Thursday filing.
June 20, 2017
A California federal judge ordered a former Tesla mechanical engineer on Tuesday to serve five years probation and pay the electric car maker restitution for illegally accessing an ex-manager's email and downloading confidential information he later posted online, rejecting prosecutors' request for at least 6 months of home detention.
January 20, 2017
A former Tesla Motors Inc. mechanical engineer on Thursday pled guilty in California federal court to a misdemeanor charge after allegedly hacking his manager's email and subsequently posting a confidential customer complaint and false, disparaging remarks about the electric car company.