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Trevor Milton Fraud Conviction Has Nikola
Whistleblowers, Trial from Inside
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SDNY Review, Oct 14 – In
September and October 2022 Trevor
Milton, founder of Nikola Motor was put
on trial for fraudulent claims about
NKLA's hydrogen trucks.
On October
14, Milton was found guilty on three of
four counts.
Now, published hours after the verdict
there is 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.
The author 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, SDNY-admitted
lawyer Matthew Russell Lee 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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