{"id":1019633,"date":"2026-07-09T08:44:28","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T03:14:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1019633"},"modified":"2026-07-09T08:52:46","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T03:22:46","slug":"us-judge-approves-elon-musk-settlement-with-sec-despite-misgivings-red-flags","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/09\/us-judge-approves-elon-musk-settlement-with-sec-despite-misgivings-red-flags\/","title":{"rendered":"US judge approves Elon Musk settlement with SEC despite misgivings, &#8216;red flags&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A federal judge on Wednesday approved the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission&#8217;s settlement with Elon Musk over his purchase of Twitter shares, despite expressing &#8220;significant misgivings&#8221; about the &#8220;red flags&#8221; the accord raised. <\/p>\n<p>U.S. District Judge Sparkle Sooknanan in Washington, D.C., said she \u200bhad only a limited role in assessing whether the settlement meets minimum standards of fairness and reasonableness, or instead &#8220;makes a mockery of judicial power,&#8221; and questioned whether the Trump administration let the world&#8217;s richest person off too easily.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A federal judge on Wednesday approved the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission&#8217;s settlement with Elon Musk over his purchase of Twitter shares, despite expressing &#8220;significant misgivings&#8221; about the &#8220;red flags&#8221; the accord raised. U.S. District Judge Sparkle Sooknanan in Washington, D.C., said she \u200bhad only a limited role in assessing whether the settlement meets minimum standards of fairness and reasonableness, or instead &#8220;makes a mockery of judicial power,&#8221; and questioned whether the Trump administration let the world&#8217;s richest person off too easily.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1019633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1019633"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019633\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1019657,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019633\/revisions\/1019657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1019633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1019633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1019633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}