Elon Musk’s lawyer says the billionaire didn’t get a fair trial because a San Francisco jury slipped a “bizarre and highly questionable” joke into a verdict form when it concluded he defrauded Twitter Inc. shareholders before acquiring the social media platform.

Wall Street trade groups lined up behind Apollo Global Management and other firms seeking dismissal of a lawsuit by Optimum Communications Inc. accusing lenders of forming an “illegal cartel” to freeze the telecom company out of the US credit market.

Nicolás Maduro appeared in a Manhattan federal court Thursday as the US pushes forward with a broad drug-trafficking and narco-terrorism conspiracy case against the ousted Venezuelan leader that’s loaded with regional and geopolitical implications.