Elon Musk’s record-setting Tesla Inc. pay package was again rejected by a Delaware judge even after shareholders supported reinstating it.
Despite the June 13 shareholder vote at the company’s annual meeting, Delaware Chancery Court Judge Kathaleen St. J. McCormick decided to stick with her original finding in January that the company’s board was too much under the influence of the billionaire entrepreneur when it adopted the plan in 2018.
The package was initially worth $2.6 billion and spiked to $56 billion by the time the judge canceled it.
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