{"id":86834,"date":"2023-12-19T01:19:04","date_gmt":"2023-12-19T06:19:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=86834"},"modified":"2023-12-19T01:08:55","modified_gmt":"2023-12-19T06:08:55","slug":"nikola-founder-trevor-milton-sentenced-to-four-years-in-prison-for-fraud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/12\/2023\/nikola-founder-trevor-milton-sentenced-to-four-years-in-prison-for-fraud.html","title":{"rendered":"Nikola founder Trevor Milton sentenced to four years in prison for fraud"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(CNBC) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/quotes\/NKLA\/\">Nikola<\/a> founder <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2023\/10\/24\/nikola-nkla-trevor-milton-damages.html\">Trevor Milton<\/a> was sentenced Monday to four years in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2022\/09\/13\/nikola-founder-trevor-milton-stands-trial-on-fraud-charges.html\">prison<\/a> in connection to defrauding investors of the embattled electric- and hydrogen-powered <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2022\/10\/14\/nikola-nkla-founder-trevor-milton-found-guilty-of-fraud-.html\">truck<\/a> maker. Milton also was fined $1 million and could later be forced to forfeit property as part of his sentence. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2023\/12\/18\/nikola-founder-trevor-milton-sentencing-fraud-charges.html\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNBC) Nikola founder Trevor Milton was sentenced Monday to four years in prison in connection to defrauding investors of the embattled electric- and hydrogen-powered truck maker. Milton also was fined $1 million and could later be forced to forfeit property [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86834"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86834\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86835,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86834\/revisions\/86835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}