{"id":1326,"date":"2024-06-12T21:17:17","date_gmt":"2024-06-12T21:17:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/in-1b-suit-nikola-founder-says-legal-chief-other-execs-fed-doj-false-narrative-to-save-themselves\/"},"modified":"2024-06-12T21:17:17","modified_gmt":"2024-06-12T21:17:17","slug":"in-1b-suit-nikola-founder-says-legal-chief-other-execs-fed-doj-false-narrative-to-save-themselves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/in-1b-suit-nikola-founder-says-legal-chief-other-execs-fed-doj-false-narrative-to-save-themselves\/","title":{"rendered":"In $1B Suit, Nikola Founder Says Legal Chief, Other Execs Fed DOJ False Narrative to Save Themselves"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div>\n<p>The\u00a0founder of electric truck maker Nikola, convicted last year\u00a0of defrauding investors about\u00a0his company\u2019s technology, now is suing his legal chief and other insiders, saying they praised him for aggressively promoting the company before turning on him when scrutiny of the business increased.<\/p>\n<p>Trevor Milton, who in December was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2023\/12\/18\/nikola-founder-trevor-milton-sentencing-fraud-charges.html#:~:text=Nikola%20founder%20Trevor%20Milton%20sentenced%20to%20four%20years%20in%20prison%20for%20fraud,-Published%20Mon%2C%20Dec&amp;text=Nikola%20founder%20Trevor%20Milton%20was,and%20hydrogen%2Dpowered%20truck%20maker.\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">sentenced to four years in prison<\/a>, says in the June 6 lawsuit that he relied heavily on Chief Legal Officer Britton Worthen, who also was his personal attorney, to advise him on what he should or shouldn\u2019t say\u00a0on social media and in other public forums about the Phoenix-based company.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0founder of electric truck maker Nikola, convicted last year\u00a0of defrauding investors about\u00a0his company\u2019s technology, now is suing his legal chief and other insiders, saying they praised him for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1327,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[616,1343,354,1880,1879,1878,136,1881,1877,1223,339],"class_list":["post-1326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lawyers","tag-chief","tag-doj","tag-execs","tag-false","tag-fed","tag-founder","tag-legal","tag-narrative","tag-nikola","tag-save","tag-suit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1326\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}