Todd Maron, topjurist and confidant of ceo Elon Musk, is leaving Tesla. He was five years in the service of the maker of electric cars, and is not the first high-ranking person in the door at Tesla behind him, departs.

That confirms the company after news about the departure, the round did. The departure is remarkable, because Maron Musks divorce lawyer was before he was in 2013, when Tesla started to work.

Musk will see this year, one after another top executive to leave. In september he announced a series of promotions within the company, aimed at the reconstruction of the company.

Tesla has in Dane Butswinkas already a successor for Maron found. He helped Tesla earlier with the issue around beurswaakhond SEC, after the infamous tweets from Musk about the stock market want to get from the company. The Twitter messages, which resulted Musk eventually his role as president of Tesla, as part of a settlement with the SEC.

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