Ex-Twitter executives say Elon Musk still owes them US$1.6mil for legal bills

Twitter faces numerous suits alleging that the company under Musk’s leadership has failed to pay millions owed to former employees, vendors and landlords while purportedly trying to stay financially solvent. — AFP

A group of Twitter Inc’s former top executives say the struggling social-media platform owes them more than US$1.6mil for legal fees and they want a judge to force new owner Elon Musk to pay that tab now.

The group – led by ex-Twitter Chief Executive Officer Parag Agrawal – says the legal bills accrued in connection with lawsuits and government probes of the company’s activities while they ran it. The former executives claim Twitter is violating its own bylaws by refusing to cover the sums. They were ousted when Musk bought the company for US$44bil last year.