長，率いる of 無-放出／発行トラックで運ぶ投機・賭ける設立する有罪の of 詐欺

億万長者創立者 of electric トラックで運ぶ会社／堅い Nikola is 設立する GUILTY of 詐欺 after inflating value of 会社／堅い to $34bn - 簡潔に more than Ford - with litany of lies 含むing rolling トラックで運ぶ downhill to pretend it worked

Nikola Corp. 創立者 Trevor Milton was 罪人／有罪を宣告するd of 告発（する），告訴（する）／料金s he deceived 投資家s with 誇張するd （人命などを）奪う，主張するs about his company

Milton 支持する／優勝者d that his company was producing 無-放出／発行, 18-wheel トラックで運ぶs that could run on cheap hydrogen?

検察官，検事s 述べるd Milton as a 詐欺師 who lied to inflate his company's value to $34 billion and created 昇進／宣伝ビデオs for 非，不，無-existent トラックで運ぶs?

They also said Milton sought first-time 投資家s who he could easily dupe into believing his outlandish （人命などを）奪う，主張するs?

Milton was 解放する／自由なd on a $100 million 社債, with a 宣告，判決ing 審理，公聴会始める，決める for 2023?

Published: 21:34 BST, 14 October 2022 | Updated: 21:13 BST, 18 December 2023

The 創立者 of Nikola Corp. was 設立する有罪の of 詐欺?on 告発（する），告訴（する）／料金s of deceiving 投資家s with （人命などを）奪う，主張するs about his company's value and 進歩 in producing 無-放出／発行トラックで運ぶs.

Billionare Trevor Milton, 40, who 設立するd the company in his Utah 地階 six years ago, took the company public in 2020 at $34 billion, （人命などを）奪う，主張するing to have built a 革命の始める，決める of 18-wheel トラックで運ぶs that could run on cheap hydrogen.?

While the company quickly 急に上がるd to outvalue even Ford, things began to 崩壊する quickly for Milton まっただ中に主張s that his company was nowhere 近づく creating 無-放出／発行乗り物s.?

At the 裁判，公判, 検察官，検事s portrayed Milton as a scammer who went as far as stamping Nikola's logo on other company's トラックで運ぶs and 偽のing a promo ビデオ where the engineless 乗り物 was rolled downhill to make it seem like it was working.?

During の近くにing arguments, Jordan Estes, assistant U.S. 弁護士／代理人／検事, said: 'Trevor Milton is a 詐欺師. He lied to 投資家s to get their money, plain and simple.'?

Milton's lawyer, Marc Mukasey, said there would be an 控訴，上告.

'We're going to keep fighting,' he told reporters outside 法廷，裁判所 on Friday.

Nikola Corp. 創立者 Trevor Milton ( pictured on Friday) was 罪人／有罪を宣告するd of 告発（する），告訴（する）／料金s he deceived 投資家s with 誇張するd （人命などを）奪う，主張するs about his company's 進歩 in producing 無-放出／発行 18-wheel トラックで運ぶs

The company started to unravel in September 2020 when a 報告（する）／憶測（刑事）被告 it of 存在 an 'intricate 詐欺'. の中で the 主張s was that it 行う／開催する／段階d a 宣伝のビデオ for its Nikola One トラックで運ぶ that 報道によれば didn't have an engine (above a 得る，とらえる of the ビデオ)

A 陪審／陪審員団 reached the 判決 against Milton after 審議する／熟考するing for about five hours in 連邦の法廷，裁判所 in Manhattan.?

Milton was 罪人／有罪を宣告するd on one count of 安全s 詐欺 and two counts of wire 詐欺, the most serious of which carries a 最大限宣告，判決 of 20 years in 刑務所，拘置所.??

Called as a 政府証言，証人／目撃する, Nikola's CEO 示す Russell 証言するd that Milton 'was 傾向がある to exaggeration' in pitching his 投機・賭ける to 投資家s.

When the company went public in 2020, 株ロケット／急騰するd to nearly $80 per 株 with 約束s that it would roll out the Nikola One トラックで運ぶ, a 無-放出／発行 electric 乗り物力／強力にするd by hydrogen-燃料.?

に引き続いて the 主張s against him, the company's 在庫／株急落するd, and on Friday, Nikola の近くにd at $3.06 per 株, a 95 パーセント減少（する） from its glory days.?

の中で the most damning 主張s against Milton was a 劇の宣伝のビデオ描写するing the Nikola One 運動ing through the 砂漠.

検察官，検事s, however, showed 証拠 that the futuristic トラックで運ぶ was anything but, operating with doors that were taped shut and 殴打／砲列s 除去するd.?

They said the car was 牽引するd 上りの／困難な and then 許すd to roll 負かす／撃墜する as the company filmed it to pretend like it was running on its hydrogen-f uel.?

Through its lavish 約束s of groundbreaking 乗り物s, 検察官，検事s said Milton 故意に sought 平易な示すs to 投資する in his company.?

The 起訴，告発 said many of the people duped in the 計画／陰謀 were first-time or new 投資家s?who began 貿易（する）ing during the pandemic.

Mi lton '的d individual, 非，不，無-professional 投資家s ― いわゆる小売投資家s ― by making 誤った and 誤って導くing 声明s 直接／まっすぐに to the 投資するing public through social マスコミ, and television, print and podcast interviews,' it read.?

'The lies - that is what this 事例／患者 is about,' 検察官，検事 Matthew Podolsky told the 陪審／陪審員団 in の近くにing arguments Thursday.

宣告，判決ing for Milton, who was 解放する／自由なd on a $100 million 社債, was 始める，決める for January 27

Milton was 起訴するd on two counts of 安全s 詐欺, 含むing making 誤った声明s about the company, and wire 詐欺, the US 司法省発表するd Thursday

The company's 在庫／株 continues to 急落する, の近くにing on Friday at $3.06 per 株. During the 高さ of its IPO, the company was valued at nearly $80 per 株

Mukasey 勧めるd 無罪放免, 説 there was 'a 素晴らしい欠如（する） of 証拠' that his （弁護士の）依頼人 ever ーするつもりであるd to cheat 投資家s.

Although the 弁護 lawyer 認める that his （弁護士の）依頼人いつかs spoke in ways that could 誤って導く people into believing that 未来計画（する）s were something the company had already 達成するd, Mukasey said Milton just liked to 誇る about his company.?

The defe nse also 解任するd arguments that the altered 宣伝のビデオ構成するd any 悪事を働くこと.?

'It's certainly not a 罪，犯罪 to use special 影響s,' Mr. Mukasey told 賠審員s. 'さもなければ the 政府 would have to 起訴する the Energizer Bunny.'?

Milton had pleaded not 有罪の to 安全s and wire 詐欺. He 辞職するd in 2020 まっただ中に報告（する）／憶測s of 詐欺 that sent Nikola's 在庫／株 prices into a tailspin.

宣告，判決ing for Milton, who was 解放する／自由なd on a $100 million 社債, was 始める，決める for January 27.

Nikola, which has said it 協力するd with the 調査 against Milton, 以前 settled a $125 million 罰金 with the 安全s and 交流（売買）手数料，委託（する）／委員会／権限.?

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The Nikola One's 製品開始する，打ち上げる in 2016 (above) fell under scrutiny. The トラックで運ぶ was said to be a 麻薬売人 - an inoperable 原型. Gears and モーターs were 行方不明の, and while the words 'H2 無放出／発行 Hydrogen Electric' were emblazoned on the 乗り物

An electric cable was snaked up from under the 行う／開催する／段階 through the 床に打ち倒す of the cab (above)

In September 2020, GM 発表するd it would be 投資するing $2billion in the company and 供給するing it with hydrogen 燃料独房s and 殴打／砲列s for its 乗り物s in 交流 for an 11 per cent 火刑／賭ける in the 会社／堅い.??

But the company and Milton's 評判 started to unravel when short-販売人 Hindenburg 研究 published a bombshell 報告（する）／憶測 just two days after the GM 取引，協定 was 発表するd, （人命などを）奪う，主張するing Milton lied about the company's 科学（工学）技術.

The damning 報告（する）／憶測?（人命などを）奪う，主張するd the electric トラックで運ぶ start-up was based on years of lies, exaggerations of its 科学（工学）技術s and 偽のd 製品 l aunches.

Many of the 主張s in the 起訴，告発 were 以前について言及するd in the 報告（する）／憶測.??

The short-販売人（刑事）被告 Milton of '誤って導くing partners into 調印協定s by 誤って（人命などを）奪う，主張するing to have 広範囲にわたる proprietary 科学（工学）技術'.

It also （人命などを）奪う，主張するd Nikola was short-selling 在庫／株 and labeled the company a '詐欺', a 告発（する），告訴（する）／料金 it 否定するd.?

Hindenburg （人命などを）奪う，主張するd to have '広範囲にわたる証拠' that Nikola's proprietary 科学（工学）技術 was 購入（する）d from another company.

Hindenburg also 申し立てられた／疑わしい that Milton 任命するd his brother, Travis, to lead a 部隊 in the company for which he did not have any 相当な experience 関係のある to the 部門.?

Trevor Milton 設立するd the company in 2016 inside his 地階 in Salt Lake City, Utah?

Milton grew up in Las Vegas and then Utah in a family of Mormons to a 鉄道／強行採決する経営者／支配人 father and realtor mother.?

After Milton's mother died from 癌 when he was a 十代の少年少女, he went to?Utah Valley 明言する／公表する College before dropping out after just one semester.

He told Forbes?in 2019 that he developed an 利益／興味 in the 輸送（する）産業 from his father who?worked for the freight 鉄道／強行採決する company?Union 太平洋の.?

He also said he was 奮起させるd to change the world by an 18-month church 使節団 to Brazil.??

Milton 設立するd at least five 商売／仕事s before 開始する，打ち上げるing Nikola in 2015, 指名するd after famous 電気の engineer Nikola Tesla.??

Milton's goal was for Nikola to become the biggest 生産者 of hydrogen for 無-放出／発行燃料独房乗り物s and to have 始める，決める up 700 Nikola hydrogen 駅／配置するs across America by 2028.

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