What Tesla did with bitcoin could be considered market manipulation, and that's a serious crime considered by the US government. The fact that the company invested $1.5B and make it public that bring a lot of investors to bitcoin, and after that, we see how bitcoin has a crazy jump in the prize, and now they sold the 10% when bitcoin was on its ATH.
As a reference, I will leave this link:
https://www.fbi.gov/scams-and-safety/common-scams-and-crimes/market-manipulation-pump-and-dump-fraudSo, the question is, did tesla make market manipulation and you think the company will be charged for it?
It is indeed a market manipulation that Elon has done. Not just with bitcoin but also with dogecoin. He never indeed spoke about his dogecoin holding but I assume he must have invested few millions personally in dogecoin and then manipulated the price through his immensely popular twitter handle and booked a good amount of profit.
If the Financial Fraud Investigation Agency starts an investigation around such allegation, he will find that true!
This is a reasonable interpretation of the events. I understand where you are coming from since their name influence were used to lure people. But somehow I also wonder based from comments of others that they have the right to do their own will, and is the accusation would really matter here?