A man who pitched the idea for a “DOGE Dividend” earlier this year that caught the attention of Elon Musk had a family Tesla repossessed following a court case with a former employer, and the company is now asking him to turn over more items.

James Fishback, who worked for Greenlight Capital from 2021 to 2023, was ordered to pay the company more than $200,000 following a March court judgment in New York.

Fishback told Newsweek that under his employment agreement, he is required to pay legal fees and that the company has never asked him for compensatory or punitive damages.

“Their strategy has been to use the courts to throw as many cases against me as possible to drive up their legal fees, so when the case is over, they then force me to pay their bill,” Fishback said.

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