{"id":7547,"date":"2022-10-31T08:36:11","date_gmt":"2022-10-31T08:36:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=7547"},"modified":"2022-10-31T08:36:11","modified_gmt":"2022-10-31T08:36:11","slug":"con-man-founder-of-electric-truck-company-nikola-convicted-of-fraud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=7547","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Con Man:&#8217; Founder of Electric Truck Company Nikola Convicted of Fraud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Trevor Milton, the founder of electric truck maker Nikola, was convicted of fraud after being accused of bragging about\u00a0nonexistent technology in an attempt to inflate his company&#8217;s stock price.\u00a0&#8220;Trevor Milton is a con man,&#8221; Assistant U.S. Attorney Jordan Estes said. &#8220;He lied to investors to get their money&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/tech\/2022\/10\/15\/con-man-founder-of-electric-truck-company-nikola-convicted-of-fraud\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trevor Milton, the founder of electric truck maker Nikola, was convicted of fraud after being<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7548,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tech"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/7547-con-man-founder-of-electric-truck-company-nikola-convicted-of-fraud.jpg",640,335,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/7547-con-man-founder-of-electric-truck-company-nikola-convicted-of-fraud-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/7547-con-man-founder-of-electric-truck-company-nikola-convicted-of-fraud-300x157.jpg",300,157,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/7547-con-man-founder-of-electric-truck-company-nikola-convicted-of-fraud.jpg",640,335,false],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/7547-con-man-founder-of-electric-truck-company-nikola-convicted-of-fraud.jpg",640,335,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/7547-con-man-founder-of-electric-truck-company-nikola-convicted-of-fraud.jpg",640,335,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/7547-con-man-founder-of-electric-truck-company-nikola-convicted-of-fraud.jpg",640,335,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/7547-con-man-founder-of-electric-truck-company-nikola-convicted-of-fraud.jpg",640,335,false],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/7547-con-man-founder-of-electric-truck-company-nikola-convicted-of-fraud.jpg",640,335,false],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/7547-con-man-founder-of-electric-truck-company-nikola-convicted-of-fraud-590x335.jpg",590,335,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=35\" rel=\"category\">Tech<\/a>","tag_info":"Tech","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7547\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}