The real person in charge of SpaceX and keeping it successful is Gwynne Shotwell.

The US law Musk violated would be the Logan Act…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logan_Act

A long time ago I read some cyberpunk novel, and one of the characters had an ocular implant that got infected with malware that flashed spam ads for Indian brothels in his vision 24/7, even with his eyes closed, until he went completely postal.