Twitter Inc said on Monday payments made to a whistleblower did not breach any terms of its $44-billion buyout by Elon Musk, after the world’s richest man cited the move as another reason to scrap the deal.
In a letter to Twitter on Friday, lawyers for Musk said Twitter‘s failure to seek his consent before paying $7.75 million to whistleblower Peiter Zatko and his lawyers violated the merger agreement, which restricts when Twitter could make such payments.
