Had you or I - you know, non $billionaires - done this we would have had to pay a far, far, far, far, far ... larger fine.
But Elon M, being apparently the chosen one gets away with a fine of $1.5million - about one percent of one percent of his wealth - on a deal that made him $billions and screwed over a lot of other people.
"SEC and Elon Musk agree to settle lawsuit over Twitter buyout in 2022"
Carrier Revival in Long Trapped-Ion Chains
Florian Egli, Chris Shanks, James Bounds, Jorge Moreno, Muhammad Thariq, Erdem Yilmaz, Theodor W. H\"ansch, Thomas Udem, Akira Ozawa
https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.07942