Trevor Milton had requested probation after being found guilty of misrepresenting his company’s technology to investors
Trevor Milton, the convicted founder of the electric- and hydrogen-powered truck maker Nikola, was sentenced to four years in prison on Monday after a jury last year found him guilty of lying to investors about the company’s technology.
Federal prosecutors in Manhattan said Milton misled investors by stating that Nikola had built a pickup from the “ground up”, that it had developed its own batteries even though he knew it was buying them, and that it had early success creating a “Nikola One” semi-truck that he knew did not work.
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