United States Departament of Justice, ed. (29 de julio de 2021). «Former Nikola Corporation CEO Trevor Milton Charged In Securities Fraud Scheme». The United States Attorney's Office(en inglés). Consultado el 1 de agosto de 2021. «From at least in or about November 2019 up through and including at least in or about September 2020, TREVOR MILTON engaged in a scheme to defraud investors by inducing them to purchase shares of Nikola Corporation (“Nikola”), the electric- and hydrogen-powered vehicle and energy company that MILTON founded, through false and misleading statements regarding Nikola’s product and technology development. MILTON’s scheme targeted individual, non-professional investors – so-called “retail investors” – by making false and misleading statements directly to the investing public through social media and television, print, and podcast interviews.»