Nikola Founder Trevor Milton Convicted of Defrauding Investors in E-Truck Startup

Yahoo Finance2022-10-16

Nikola (NKLA) founder Trevor Milton was found guilty of three counts of criminal fraud on Friday in a case accusing him of spreading lies about the electric truck startup for his own personal benefit....

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Milton pleaded not guilty to all of the government’s charges.Nikola gained notoriety in September 2020, when short seller Hindenburg Research alleged that the company had spun up an \"ocean of lies\" to deceive investors. Memorably, Hindenburg accused Nikola of releasing a deceptive video making it seem as if its Nikola One semi-truck were traveling under its own power at a high rate of speed when, in fact, it was just rolling down a hill.Milton resigned from the company days after the Hindenburg report, and in July 2021, Manhattan prosecutors charged him with defrauding investors to drive up the value of his company's stock. 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