Musk tells lawyer: ‘I think you are a bad human being’

Elon Musk (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)

Tech billionaire Elon Musk has defended his company’s 2016 acquisition of a troubled solar panel firm amid a lawsuit claiming he was to blame for a deal that was rife with conflicts of interest and never delivered the profits he promised.

“I think you are a bad human being,” the Tesla founder told Randall Baron, a lawyer for shareholders who was pressing him to acknowledge his mistakes in helping engineer the acquisition of SolarCity.