deposition

“Things are very different now. Things evolved during the period of time that I was there where the police commissioners, for all intents and purposes, provided a rubber stamp,” he said in the deposition.

He denied the charges and attacked Carroll in interviews, depositions and on social media, calling her a “nut job” and “not my type.”

Mr Musk's lawyers say they too had travelled to Los Angeles to be at his deposition last month and "immediately notified the SEC of the emergency".

These conclusions were informed by over 140,000 documents and more than 1000 interviews and depositions.

It is unclear from Wang’s deposition and complaint whether he sold only his stake to the private equity firm or Liu’s shares as well.