| Team Trevor
Waits To Cross As Russell Calls Milton An
Exaggerating Rube With Pa on Board
By Matthew
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SDNY COURTHOUSE,
Sept 19 – It was the Monday
after jury selection in the
Trevor Milton trial when his
replacement, and nemesis, Mark
Russell took the stand.
It didn't take
long for the prosecutor to
help Russell land a blow. He
said Trevor was wont to
exaggerate, and only cared
about the moment to moment
stock price. That he bragged
about his power over retail
investors using social media.
Russell cast himself as the
insider with previous public
company experience. Milton was
the rube who put his father on
the board of directors. As
Russell testified, just
selling stock, he was praised
in Hamburg by his successor
Mike Lohscheller.
At Nikola they
were putting Trevor behind
them, they were drawing a line
underneath him. And the
prosecutors were helping them
do it, instead of charging
them.
Before
Russell took the stand, with
only an hour left in the trial
day, Dale Prows continued on
the cross, Brad Bondi
hammering away. Hadn't Prows
been emasculated, he asked,
when the Norwegian firm Nel
dissed him? Well sure.
Online,
previous witness Paul Lackey
said this had been their
strategy with him, too. He'd
been the one to quote Milton
as saying he didn't give a
sh*t about the environment.
It echoed
the hypocrisy of the UN
General Assembly week, which
was just getting started in
Midtown. Kurt Wheelock, even
banned, stopped by. But his
focus was down here at SDNY,
on this trial, and soon on Tom
Barrack over in EDNY.
Cross examination
under oath as the engine of
truth. The UN's Antonio
Guterres would never submit to
it. But how would it go for
Mark Russell, when Marc
Mukasey got his turn? More on
Patreon here.
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