Why Did Tesla Pay for Its CEO to Fly His Own Jet to D.C. to Secure a U.S. Loan?

Sam Gustin

Updated July 14, 2016 at 9:00 PM

Elon Musk, the multimillionaire CEO of luxury green-auto startup Tesla, billed the money-losing company $175,000 for several flights aboard his own private jet, including trips to Washington, D.C., to secure the project's nearly half-billion dollar taxpayer loan.