Rather than following through on a vow to "hunt every single one of" Twitter's executives and directors "till the day they die," Elon Musk has reached an agreement to pay the executives he swindled out of $200 million in vesting shares.

Musk biographer Walter Isaacson claimed Musk had said both the quote about hunting Twitter's executives, as well as a snide comment about ripping them off: "Two-hundred-million differential in the cookie jar." Both comments wound up cited in the legal filings against him. Musk has until Halloween to pay up, or the lawsuit continues.

The lawsuit was filed in March 2024 after a lengthy dispute with the former execs, who accused Musk of closing the $44 billion Twitter acquisition early to "cheat" them out of $200 million before their stock options vested the

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