Tesla's new general counsel quits after two months

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DANA HULL

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Bloomberg

February 20, 2019 01:41 PM

SAN FRANCISCO -- Tesla Inc. is losing the general counsel hired in the wake of Elon Musk’s run-in with U.S. securities regulators after just two months on the job. Shares of the electric-car maker declined on the news.

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