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Josh Raffaelli, who has deep roots as a Silicon Valley investor and has backed a number of Elon Musk companies, is suing his former employer, the massive trillion-dollar AUM Brookfield Asset Management, reports The New York Times.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n Much of Raffaelli\u2019s complaint concerns how Brookfield covered pandemic-related real estate losses and alleges the company fired him after he filed a whistleblower complaint at the SEC. His suit makes allegations like fraud and bribery, while Brookfield vehemently denies any wrongdoing, it told The Times.<\/p>\n In February, Brookfield quietly shuttered the venture capital unit run by Raffaelli and rolled some assets into another unit, Bloomberg reported at the time<\/a>.\u00a0One of Raffaelli\u2019s complaints in the suit is that Brookfield didn\u2019t buy as much stock in Musk-owned companies as he had secured the ability to buy.<\/p>\n Raffaelli had deals to buy into Musk companies like SpaceX, xAI, and the Boring Company, the suit alleges. And his Brookfield fund was a big backer of Musk\u2019s takeover of Twitter, Bloomberg reported.<\/p>\n The lawsuit is a very public battle for Raffaelli, who previously worked as a partner at the VC firm then known as Draper Fisher Jurvetson. (Today, it\u2019s a collection of funds.) While at DFJ,\u00a0 Brookfield helped that firm make investments into Musk companies like SolarCity (acquired by Tesla), SpaceX, and Tesla.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n