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Interview by Matthew Russell Lee
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Courthouse, Oct 16 – In
September and October 2022 Trevor
Milton, founder of Nikola Motor was put
on trial for fraudulent claims about
NKLA's hydrogen trucks.
On Friday,
October 14, Milton was found guilty on
three of four counts.
Published hours after the verdict was a
book
by Matthew Russell Lee, who live tweeted
and reported on the trial daily, and put
questions to Milton and his lawyers in
Foley Square outside.
And
the Sunday after the Friday verdict, Lee
for Inner City Press conducted the
following interview, and has the screen
shots:
J: The
Covid days I went to work and was at
nycc we came back expecting to hear more
witnesses... They are going to appeal
The judge told us that We were hoping he
would get sentenced quickly
MRL: It's
set for January 27. Also, US asked that
Milton not be able to use his private
jet pending sentencing set for January
27 - denied
J:
Disappointed to hear it’s all the way in
January Well isn’t Milton the one flying
it?
MRL: It's
common to wait 90 days. The defendant,
now convicted, gets interviewed by
Probation. During the 9 day break, the
jet flew to Turks & Caicos -
presumably without Trevor, who's not
supposed to leave the USA
J: I have
a hard time believing that But the
flight plans are on Twitter for us to
see So if he flees we can see it Do you
follow the Milton planes Twitter?
MRL: What
I don't understand is why he's not
guilty of the 2d securities fraud charge
- what's the difference from the first
securities fraud charge?
J: In the
first one he had to meet one of the 3.
In the second he has to meet all 3... We
believed he didn’t intend to harm anyone
Now I regret thinking better of him
after watching American greed. Clout
chasing idiot who wanted to be loved and
praised like Elon.We understand people
got hurt who bought his stock but we
thought he did it in good faith. We
thought he was trying to get rich and
build a valuation and bring everyone
wealth at the same time
MRL: There
was a couple in Utah he promised 50
percent to - then reneged
J: Did he
exaggerate? And lie? Yes but did he do
it with the intent to say hey I’m going
to screw these individuals over That
wasn’t in the case
I really tried not to look at the family
when they started crying I cried when I
left the court room I felt terrible
MRL: It's
hard to judge someone. But it seems some
of Milton's behavior went too far - when
I heard him on the podcasts, it's like
you could tell when he just decided to
lie Like, "No, these contracts are
binding"
J: Yes.
And we thought he was an idiot Pumping
his ego and his company. But we
never thought he was thinking of pulling
the rug He did He sold 300m worth of
shares if I’m not mistaken
MRL: What
about the role of Kim Brady?
J: That’s
something I’d like to know more about As
it stands there are anonymous
whistleblowers suing Trevor, from what I
saw in American greed... I honestly
believe Kim Brady is an anonymous
whistleblower
Watch this site.
Lee was each day in the courtroom
of U.S. District Court for the Southern
District of New York Judge Edgardo
Ramos, and venturing farther afield to
investigate leads exclusively give to
him and Inner City Press and by Nikola
whistleblowers.
As the trial wound down, Inner City
Press published descriptions of
documented destroyed within Nikola, and
guilty knowledge by officials still at
the company.
Material from those whistleblowers, the
trial and even some more speculative and
literary excursions featuring recurring
characters Kurt Wheelock and Michael
Randall Long, featured in the Ghislaine
Maxwell book "Maximum Maxwell" as noted
by New York Magazine, here,
made its way at the speed of the
Internet into the new book
"Hydrogen
Heist: The Trial of Nikola's Trevor
Milton: On Fraud, Guilty of 3 of 4
Counts; From Musk and Tesla Wannabe to
Convict in SDNY, by Matthew Russell Lee
E-book here;
paperbook forthcoming.
This review will leave it to
others to find over-reaches and typos.
For his reporting, Lee was banned
from the United Nations in 2018 by SG
Antonio Guterres, whose Media
Accrediation chief Melissa Fleming has
ignored appeals from a UN Special
Rapporteur on Freedom of
Expression and, pro bono, the law firm
of Quinn
Emanuel.
One might surmise that history leads to
some of the book's (over?)
identification with the
defendant.
A full scope instantaneous view
of and taking off from trials like US v.
Trevor Milton seems to be Inner City
Press' project
here.
And here
it is.
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