Tesla whistleblower alleges ‘narcotics trafficking’ and ‘unauthorized wiretapping’ in SEC complaint

What in the fresh hell is going on at Tesla?

About 20 miles due west of Reno sits the monumental Tesla Gigafactory. Construction started on the now almost 5-million-square-foot building in 2014, with the goal of creating, on a massive scale, the batteries needed to power the company's electric cars. But if a newly released summary of a SEC complaint is to be believed, that's not all that's going on inside those walls. 

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The document, sent to Mashable by the law firm Meissner Associates, contains allegations made by a former Gigafactor employee that run the gauntlet from "unauthorized wiretapping and hacking," to possible "narcotics trafficking," with a little $37 million copper theft thrown in for good measure. 

It's pretty wild. 

The employee in question is Karl Hansen, whom Meissner Associates is representing and says used to work in Tesla's "internal security department and its investigations division." Hansen reportedly filed a complaint with the SEC about what he allegedly witnessed while working at Tesla, and his law firm was kind enough to sum it up for us. 

Here are just a few of the doozies: 

We reached out to Tesla for comment about these, frankly, buck-wild claims, but received no response as of press time. 

If there is any truth to them — something we do not know at this time — then Tesla CEO Elon Musk is going to have a lot more to worry about than just staying off Twitter. 

UPDATE: Aug. 16, 2018, 4:31 p.m. PDT: A Tesla spokesperson provided Mashable with the following statement:

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