Trevor Milton pleads not guilty, hires a big old fancy legal team. What do they say he was up to when he lied about solar panels on the roof of his factory and rolled a truck down a hill? Yeah, so they didn't touch the solar panels. It was an interesting defense in some ways. As before, Nikola was a publicly traded company,. nobody bought and sold stock four years prior based on this event or these videos. Did not ultimately sway the jury.
The bombastic founder of an electric truck startup (no, not Elon) has been convicted for his role in his company’s “intricate fraud.” But even without the crimes, getting EVs to market has proven a lot harder than everyone thought.
This episode was produced by Amanda Lewellyn, edited by Matt Collette, fact-checked by Laura Bullard with help from Miles Bryan and Haleema Shah, engineered by Paul Robert Mounsey and Efim Shapiro, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram.
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