Nikola’s Trevor Milton says he has been pardoned by Donald Trump

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Trefor Milton, the founder of the Nicola Electrical Truck Maker, said in 2022 to lie to investors and send them to prison, he was recovered by US President Donald Trump.

Milton wrote on X: “A complete and unconditional amnesty has been released by Realdonaldtrump itself. Call me personally to tell me.”

Milton was sentenced to four years in prison in December 2023 due to the misguided investors about Nicolas technology’s willingness to enhance her share price.

He said at X: “This amnesty is not only related to me – it relates to every American rail.

The details of the amnesty have not yet been published on the US Department of Justice, nor by Trump on his social platform for the truth. Brad Bondi, Milton’s lawyer and brother of US Public Prosecutor Bam Bondi, immediately accessible to comment.

The value of Nicolas was once about $ 30 billion, but she applied for bankruptcy protection in Chapter 11 in February after her cash balance diminished to $ 47 million.

The company benefited from Boom Company Companyy for special purposes, when companies that do not have revenues and sometimes any product included in public markets are attracting the benefit of the huge retail investor.

Her gathering was soon stopped by the Hindenburg Short seller, who in September 2020 issued a report called “complex fraud”.

During a five -week trial in 2023, Milton’s lawyers argued that he should not go to prison, saying that he “sees the world different from most other people.” They also asked the judge to “resist any temptation” to compare his actions with the founder of Thiranus Elizabeth Holmes, who was convicted of fraud and a 11 -year prison sentence.

In the trial, the representatives of the prosecutor Milton described as “Conman” used his gains from Nicolas to buy property in the Caribbean and a private plane.

A press release issued by Trevor Milton Media on Thursday highlighted the “amazing similarities” between the fraud case presented against the founder of Nicolas and Trump, who was convicted of conspiring to buy the silence of a pornographic representative before the of 2016 and falsify business records.

She said that Milton will focus on a documentary on his name called Contentment or conspiracy: Trevor Milton Saga, Who “calls the masses to reconsider one of the most controversial stories in the history of modern works.”

Since he became president, Trump also pardoned Ross Olbrecht, who was sentenced to life imprisonment in 2015 due to the mastermind of the online market for illegal drugs and piracy over the Internet. On his first day in his post, Trump also signed an executive order to pardon about 1500 people accused regarding the attack on the American Capitol on January 6, 2021.