Musk seeks Twitter trial delay over whistleblower claims • The Register

Elon Musk’s lawyers issued a double whammy this week in the ongoing quest by the world’s richest man to cancel his own proposed takeover of Twitter. On Tuesday the billionaire’s legal eagles asked a Delaware court to delay [PDF] the forthcoming showdown between him and Twitter. A five-day trial is scheduled to begin mid-October after Twitter sued Musk when he tried to back out of the $44 billion deal. Musk claimed, among other things, Twitter withheld crucial internal information from him, thus breaking and nullifying the takeover agreement, and Twitter counter-argued it was in fact Musk who is violating the terms by attempting to unilaterally end the sale. Twitter wants him to either complete the transaction as proposed, or cough up the agreed $1 billion break-up fee. His lawyers have asked for more time to assemble their defense, pushing the trial to sometime after November 10. Specifically, the team want to update their complaint, and include in their filings a copy of Peiter “Mudge” Zatko’s whistleblower complaint against Twitter. Mudge, the microblogging biz’s former head of security, has made a range of claims against his ex-employers, which Musk’s attorneys want to use as evidence to kill the takeover deal once…
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