Analysis: Tesla’s Musk may add to U.S. SEC ire with late report about Twitter stake


https://www.reuters.com/technology/teslas-musk-may-add-sec-ire-with-late-report-about-twitter-stake-2022-04-05/

U.S. securities law requires disclosure within 10 days of acquiring 5% of a company, and in Musk's case the 10-day deadline was March 24. A late report could lead to a per-violation civil penalty of up to $207,183, according to Urska Velikonja, a law professor at Georgetown University Law Center.

200k/2 bln = ~0.01%

Why do we have fines not proportional to the actions on which a person breaks the law?


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