Tesla leads charge to defend Elon Musk's $56bn pay package

Tesla's shares are down 28% this year. It has warned of "notably" slower growth as sales in its second-largest market, China, fall. A defect forced a recall of its highly anticipated latest product. The chief executive spends a lot of time at other companies or generating controversy. How do you reward him? With a record-breaking $56bn pay deal, if Tesla gets its way at its annual meeting on Thursday. Elon Musk's pay package - the largest ever granted to an executive at a US-listed company - is not based on Tesla's current, or future, performance. It was granted in 2018,…