SpaceX President and COO Gwynne Shotwell safeguarded Elon Musk in an e-mail to workers recently, reacting to sexual misbehavior claims directed at the CEO, CNBC has actually found out.
“Personally, I believe the allegations to be false; not because I work for Elon, but because I have worked closely with him for 20 years and never seen nor heard anything resembling these allegations,” Shotwell composed in a companywide e-mail sent out on Friday and seen by CNBC.
Musk has actually rejected the claims, which declare he propositioned a flight attendant on among SpaceX’s personal jets in 2016, calling them “wild accusations.”
In a reaction to Business Insider, which reported the claims which the flight attendant was paid $250,000 severance after challenging the business, Musk stated there is “a lot more to this story,” explaining it as a “politically motivated hit piece.” Neither Musk nor SpaceX’s vice president of the legal department, Christopher Cardaci, rejected the payment in declarations to Business Insider.
Shotwell highlighted in her e-mail that she “will never comment on any legal matters involving employment issues” prior to keeping in mind Musk openly rejected the claims as “utterly untrue” in a tweet.
Shotwell, who isNo 2 at SpaceX and the business’s leading female executive, likewise kept in mind in the e-mail that SpaceX has a “ZERO tolerance” policy for harassment, including that every allegation is taken seriously and examined, “regardless of who is involved.”
SpaceX did not right away react to CNBC’s ask for talk about Shotwell’s e-mail.
SpaceX President and COO Gwynne Shotwell
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