SEC says it is being normal in dealings with Musk

 Houston Chronicle:

US securities agency denies claims it's harassing Elon Musk 
In a letter dated Friday, Steven Buchholz of the Securities and Exchange Commission’s San Francisco Office wrote that the judge handling a securities case against Musk encouraged both sides to confer before raising issues with the court.

 U.S. securities regulators responded to allegations that they are harassing Elon Musk, writing in a letter that they’re following a judge’s instructions in trying to speak with the Tesla CEO’s lawyers about his posts on Twitter.

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The SEC can sometimes be a plodding agency that moves slowly.  That may explain why they have taken so long to distribute a previous settlement. 

See, also:

SEC Responds To Elon Musk’s Accusation Of ‘Harassment’
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As The Daily Wire reported on Thursday, Musk’s counsel wrote that Tesla thought settling the charges would conclude the SEC’s “harassment” of Musk, observing that “the SEC has broken its promises” and is now “weaponizing the consent decree by using it to try to muzzle and harass Mr. Musk and Tesla.”

“The SEC seems to be targeting Mr. Musk and Tesla for unrelenting investigation largely because Mr. Musk remains an outspoken critic of the government,” the filing explained. “The SEC’s outsized efforts seem calculated to chill his exercise of First Amendment rights rather than to enforce generally applicable laws in evenhanded fashion.”
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The SEC has long taken the position that when you are talking about securities there are limits to what you can san and there are also things you must say. 

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