Elon Musk und SpaceX stehen wegen Verstößen gegen Sicherheitsmeldevorschriften vor einer bundesstaatlichen Überprüfung

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>Elon Musk and his rocket company, SpaceX, have repeatedly failed to comply with federal reporting protocols aimed at protecting state secrets, including by not providing some details of his meetings with foreign leaders, according to people with knowledge of the company and internal documents.

>The Defense Department’s Office of Inspector General opened a review into the matter this year, and the Air Force and the Pentagon’s Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence and Security separately initiated reviews last month.

>He and his team have not provided some details of his travel — such as his full itineraries — and some of his meetings with foreign leaders, they said. He has also not reported his use of drugs, which is required even with a prescription, they said.

>For years, SpaceX workers responsible for upholding disclosure rules grudgingly allowed Mr. Musk to disregard many of the reporting procedures, as they did not want to lose their jobs, the people with knowledge of the company said. But the issue has reached a tipping point as Mr. Musk’s influence is set to escalate.

>Two defense officials said senior Pentagon leaders had given directives to avoid discussing the matter so they would not become targets of Mr. Musk, who has promised to cut government workers and budgets in his new role in Washington.

>Some SpaceX workers said they feared speaking up since the company had fired employees who raised concerns to the National Labor Relations Board about Mr. Musk. But on Nov. 2, Cody Miller, an Army veteran who worked on security clearances at SpaceX, emailed senior executives and accused them of picking and choosing which government rules to follow, according to a copy of the message viewed by The Times.

>SpaceX has a “let’s push it till we are caught mentality,” Mr. Miller wrote, adding that top executives followed the rules only “when convenient for senior leaders.”

>That same day, SpaceX’s human resources department called Mr. Miller and pushed him to leave, three people with knowledge of the company said. Mr. Miller agreed to resign.

…and Musk will pay a fine, and that will be the end of it, unfortunately.