Jef Feeley

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Elon Musk arrives for US President Donald Trump’s address to a joint session of Congress in the House Chamber of the US Capitol in Washington, DC, on March 4, 2025. (Photo by SAUL LOEB / AFP) (Photo by SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images)

Tesla fights to save Musk’s record pay package in legal appeal

By Sabrina Willmer, Jef Feeley, and others

BEVERLY HILLS, CALIFORNIA – MAY 6: Elon Musk, co-founder of Tesla and SpaceX and owner of X Holdings Corp., speaks at the Milken Institute’s Global Conference at the Beverly Hilton Hotel,on May 6, 2024 in Beverly Hills, California. The 27th annual global conference explores various topics, from the rise of generative AI to electric vehicle trends and features participants, soccer star David Beckham and actor Ashton Kutcher. (Photo by Apu Gomes/Getty Images)

Musk record Tesla pay package rejected again by Delaware judge

By Jef Feeley and Bloomberg

A casino area is pictured during a tour of DraftKings’ new offices at UnCommons on March 21, 2023, in Las Vegas. (Chase Stevens/Las Vegas Review-Journal/Tribune News Service via Getty Images)

MLB players sue DraftKings for allegedly using likeness without consent

By Jef Feeley and Bloomberg

Elon Musk clapping hands

Elon Musk tries one more time to save his $56 billion pay package

By Jef Feeley and Bloomberg

Tech billionaire Elon Musk (L) arrives to inaugurate satellite unit Starlink at a community health center in Denpasar on Indonesia’s resort island of Bali on May 19, 2024. Musk launched on May 19 his Starlink service on Indonesia’s resort island of Bali as the country aims to extend internet to its remote areas. Millions of people in Indonesia, a vast archipelago of more than 17,000 islands, are not currently hooked up to reliable internet services. (Photo by SONNY TUMBELAKA / AFP) (Photo by SONNY TUMBELAKA/AFP via Getty Images)

Tesla investors may vote to give Elon Musk his $56 billion payday, but that doesn’t mean he’ll get the money

By Dana Hull, Jef Feeley, and others

Zantac heartburn medicine are seen at a store in Mountain View, California

Victory for drugmakers GSK and Boehringer in $640 million Zantac cancer lawsuit, but thousands still to come

By Jef Feeley, Ashleigh Furlong, and others

Elon Musk, owner of Tesla and the X (formerly Twitter) platform, attends a symposium on fighting antisemitism titled ‘Never Again : Lip Service or Deep Conversation’ in Krakow, Poland on January 22nd, 2024. Musk, who was invited to Poland by the European Jewish Association (EJA) has visited the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp earlier that day, ahead of International Holocaust Remembrance Day. (Photo by Beata Zawrzel/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Tesla investors are flooding judge who threw out Elon Musk’s $56bn pay package with complaints about winning lawyers’ request for $6bn in company stock

By Jef Feeley, Dana Hull, and others

PALM BEACH, FLORIDA – MARCH 05: Republican presidential candidate, former President Donald Trump speaks at an election-night watch party at Mar-a-Lago on March 5, 2024 in West Palm Beach, Florida. Sixteen states held their primaries and caucuses today as part of Super Tuesday. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)

Judge clears way for Trump Media merger vote that could spell $4 billion windfall for ex-president

By Jef Feeley and Bloomberg

Elon Musk, owner of Tesla and the X (formerly Twitter) platform, attends a symposium on fighting antisemitism titled ‘Never Again : Lip Service or Deep Conversation’ in Krakow, Poland on January 22nd, 2024. Musk, who was invited to Poland by the European Jewish Association (EJA) has visited the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp earlier that day, ahead of International Holocaust Remembrance Day. (Photo by Beata Zawrzel/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Former Twitter executives sue Elon Musk for stiffing them out of $128 million in severance, saying he ‘doesn’t pay his bills’

By Jef Feeley, Kurt Wagner, and others

Elon Musk, chief executive officer of Tesla Inc., arrives at court during the SolarCity trial in Wilmington, Delaware, U.S., on Tuesday, July 13, 2021. Musk was cool but combative as he testified in a Delaware courtroom that Tesla’s more than $2 billion acquisition of SolarCity in 2016 wasn’t a bailout of the struggling solar provider. Photographer: Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Elon Musk’s $56 billion pay pact was killed by lawyers who are now seeking 29 million Tesla shares to cover legal fees

By Jef Feeley, Dana Hull, and others

Charlie Javice, founder of Frank, center, arrives at federal court in New York, US, on Thursday, July 13, 2023. Three cases against Javice, by JPMorgan, Manhattan federal prosecutors and the Securities and Exchange Commission, all allege that she falsified data to vastly inflate the number of Frank users during deal negotiations with the bank. Photographer: Yuki Iwamura/Bloomberg via Getty Images

JPMorgan says Frank founder Charlie Javice’s ‘army’ of 77 defense lawyers is overbilling in the fraud cases against her—and the bank is facing a $5.4m bill

By Jef Feeley and Bloomberg

SAN ANSELMO, CALIFORNIA – APRIL 05: In this photo illustration, a container of Johnson and Johnson baby powder is displayed on April 05, 2023 in San Anselmo, California. Johnson & Johnson announced an agreement on Tuesday to pay $8.9 billion to tens of thousands of people who say the company’s talcum powder products caused cancer. (Photo Illustration by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

Facing 50,000-plus lawsuits linking Baby Powder to cancer, Johnson & Johnson mulls a third bankruptcy filing

By Jef Feeley and Bloomberg

Skechers founders, Robert Greenberg and son Michael Greenberg, in one of the display rooms at the corporate headquarters in Manhattan Beach, have build a footware company that has gained in a slippery economy; (Photo by Carlos Chavez/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

Skechers executives spent millions on corporate jets to vacation in Fiji and Bora Bora without the board trying to stop them, lawsuit says

By Jef Feeley and Bloomberg

LOS ANGELES, CA – JUNE 05: Fashion designer and co-founder of Guess? Inc. Paul Marciano speaks at GUESS Celebrates 35 Years with Opening of Exhibition at the FIDM Museum & Galleries at FIDM Museum & Galleries on the Park on June 5, 2017 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Emma McIntyre/Getty Images for GUESS, Inc. )

Guess pays up to $30 million to settle allegations that its cofounder treated models like his ‘personal harem’

By Jef Feeley and Bloomberg

SAN ANSELMO, CALIFORNIA – APRIL 05: In this photo illustration, a container of Johnson and Johnson baby powder is displayed on April 05, 2023 in San Anselmo, California. Johnson & Johnson announced an agreement on Tuesday to pay $8.9 billion to tens of thousands of people who say the company’s talcum powder products caused cancer. (Photo Illustration by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

Johnson & Johnson hit by 11,000 more lawsuits linking Baby Powder to cancer after judge throws $9 billion settlement case

By Jef Feeley and Bloomberg