Elon Musk $258 Billion Dogecoin Lawsuit Expands

Elon Musk $258 Billion Dogecoin Lawsuit Expands
SpaceX founder Elon Musk during a T-Mobile and SpaceX joint event, in Boca Chica Beach, Texas, on Aug. 25, 2022. Michael Gonzalez/Getty Images
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NEW YORK—The $258 billion racketeering lawsuit accusing Elon Musk of running a pyramid scheme to support the cryptocurrency Dogecoin has expanded, adding seven new investor plaintiffs and six new defendants including his tunnel construction business Boring Co..

According to an amended complaint filed on Tuesday night in Manhattan federal court, Musk, his electric car company Tesla Inc., his space tourism company SpaceX, Boring and others intentionally drove up the price of Dogecoin more than 36,000 percent over two years and then let it crash.