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Elon Musk sued for $258 billion over alleged Dogecoin pyramid scheme

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Elon Musk reacts at a post-launch news conference after the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. [Reuters]

Elon Musk was sued for $258 billion on Thursday by a Dogecoin investor who accused him of running a pyramid scheme to support the cryptocurrency.

In a complaint filed in federal court in Manhattan, plaintiff Keith Johnson accused Musk, electric car company Tesla Inc and space tourism company SpaceX of racketeering for touting Dogecoin and driving up its price, only to then let the price tumble.

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