Musk Rips Twitter Verdict, Claims Jury’s $4.20 ‘Joke’ Mocked Him

Elon Musk’s lawyer says the billionaire didn’t get a fair trial because a San Francisco jury slipped a “bizarre and highly questionable” joke into a verdict form when it concluded he defrauded Twitter Inc. shareholders before acquiring the social media platform.

In a letter to the federal judge who oversaw the civil trial, attorney Alex Spiro pointed to the jury’s computation of how much Musk’s tweets depressed Twitter stock and how the panel highlighted just one number in blue ink — $4.20. The number 420 is cultural slang for pot smoking.