$1.4bn is a lot to fall through the cracks, even for #Tesla - https://archive.ph/CqQ9W#selection-1702.0-1702.1 important investigation by #ft, which does not mess around

Financial Times piece on $1.4 billion in shaky accounting on #Tesla’s books is… whoah.

Due to the reality of British libel laws and #ElonMusk’s propensity to sue his detractors i have to assume this is one of the most heavily legally vetted and fact checked things you will ever read. (Also not unreasonable to suspect there might be other tidbits of information the lawyers wouldn't sign off on being published - that happened a *lot* with FT's Wirecard investigation)

p.s. the FT reporter is #DanMcCrum, whose decade long crusade to take down the #Wirecard fraud is one of the more insane stories you can read on the subject of accounting based forensic journalism (McCrum wrote a book about the experience called “Money Men”). Trust me, it's more exciting than it sounds. There's Russian spies and shit.

* FT: https://www.ft.com/content/62df8d8d-31f2-445e-bfa2-c171ac43db6e
* no paywall: https://archive.ph/CqQ9W

(h/t @Lazarou)