President Donald Trump has pardoned Nikola Corp. founder and Republican donor Trevor Milton for his 2022 securities and wire ...

Milton, who compared his prosecution by the Justice Department to its criminal cases against President Trump, said he had been “railroaded” in the fraud case.

President Trump’s intervention came while Mr. Milton was appealing his conviction on securities and wire fraud charges.

Milton founded Nikola in 2014. The company later went public, eventually securing a strategic partnership with General Motors to build its Badger pickup truck. Trump administration freezes dozens ...

Trevor Milton, the founder of bankrupt electric and hydrogen-powered truck maker Nikola who was convicted of fraud, said in a social media post that he has been pardoned by U.S. President Donald Trump ...

The office also said Milton had made "false and misleading statements that Nikola had engineered and built an electric- and hydrogen-powered pickup truck known as 'the Badger' from the 'ground up ...

General Motors partnered with Nikola to produce an electric pickup truck, but GM later scaled back the alliance amid the allegations against the company. Nikola last month filed for Chapter 11 ...

General Motors partnered with Nikola to produce an electric pickup truck, but GM later scaled back the alliance amid the allegations against the company.

President Donald Trump says he pardoned Trevor Milton, the CEO of now-defunct hydrogen and electric truck firm Nikola, in part because he believed Milton was persecuted for supporting Trump’s ...

founder of Nikola Corp., center, exits court in New York, US, on Monday, Dec. 18, 2023. Milton was ordered to spend four years behind bars for lying to shareholders about the electric-truck maker ...