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Nikola Fretted Over Trevor Milton Claims
as Podcaster Role Reviewed in SDNY
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon Maxwell
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SDNY COURTHOUSE,
Sept 14 – Trevor Milton's lead
lawyer Marc Mukasey, in his
opening statement, had scoffed
or tried to get the jurors to
scoff at the idea of a
prosecution based on tweets or
a podcast.
But
already by Day 2, a podcast
came to the fore. Milton had
appeared on "Tesla Charts, the
Chartcast with TC and Georgia"
on July 17, 2020. And he had
made claims that were not
true, at least as he made
them.
Milton
said, "all of our hydrogen's
produced on the freeways." But
it wasn't producing any
hydrogen at all. Maybe he'd
meant, under our plan, it is
this way (hypothetically). But
it's not what he said.
Kurt, now
being e-mailed by Tesla
supporters telling him to stop
mentioning the two companies
together, took note of a class
action complaint filed that
day in the Northern District
of California alleging that
"Year After Year, Tesla Fails
to Deliver on Its Promise of a
Fully Self-Driving Car,
Instead Providing Experimental
Software that Kills and Maims
Drivers... The California DMV
Charges Tesla with Untrue,
Misleading, and Deceptive
Marketing of its “Autopilot”
and “Full Self-Driving”
Technology." He might have
more on that.
The US v.
Milton prosecutors put on the
stand Nikola's head of
sustainability Elizabeth
Fretheim who said she'd
fretted about what Trevor
said, even went to CEO Mark
Russell about it. But Russell
had not taken the podcast off
Nikola's social media. So was
he part of the fraud
conspiracy?
Or was
hypothetical talk about what a
company might do in the future
not as outrageous as Fretheim
now said? More on Patreon here.
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