“Elon Musk says that you’re a very bad person and you’re writing bad things about him,” Fossi recalled the colleague explaining. The CEO of Tesla Motors had actually called his office and threatened to make his life miserable by threatening litigation. When Tesla employee Richard Ortiz tried to unionize the automaker’s workforce at company’s factory in Fremont, California in 2017, Tesla fired him. Less than a month after suing Tripp, Musk thrust himself into the international spotlight as 12 members of a boys soccer team and its coach were trapped in a cave in Thailand. The company claimed Hothi “fled the scene.” Tesla sued Hothi, claiming it had surveillance footage of the alleged incident.
