OK - as US v. Milton trial continues, his lawyer Bondi is cross examining #Nikola's Fretheim about hydrogen claims on Tesla Charts podcast - Inner City Press is covering the case innercitypress.com/sdnytrial6niko… and will live tweet, thread below patreon.com/posts/72013976…
Bondi: Ms. Fretheim, didn't you say "We are designing from a clean sheet allowing us to leap frog forward in technology"?
Fretheim: Yes.
Bondi: You said that publicly, right?
Fretheim: Maybe to a select group.
Bondi: It was on the Internet, right?
Bondi: We move into evidence the entire Tesla Charts podcast, and transcript.
Judge Ramos: Any objection?
AUSA: No.
[US had been objecting in writing, but lost that round]
US says next witness (after 1st witness Fretheim) is the one cited last night (Babiarz wrote of the Badger that they can’t “film the building of the trucks” because “they are half Fords”) - legal fight about admissibility of emails coming
Cross examination of Babiarz, by Milton's lawyer Torrey Young.
Young: You're not an engineer, right?
Babiarz: I'm not.
Young: And your designing is not just of vehicles - you designed a dog bed, didn't you?
Babiarz: Yes.
Young: And a yogurt container, right?
Yes.
Young: This tweet, it was to @elonmusk, right?
Babiarz: Yes.
Young: Another EV executive active on social media, right?
Babiarz: I could say so.
Young: It was about the CyberTruck, right?
Babiarz: Yes.
Young: You thought it was entertainment, yes?
Babiarz: At first
Sentencing in UN-linked fraud of Jeffrey Saint Clair. His lawyer just said, "There was real affiliation with the UM." Yeah: today's UN hosts, recruits and propagates many frauds: Ng, Ho/CEFC, Cary Yan, all the way to this censoring top innercitypress.com/sdny18igobitun…
At sentencing, "Those who paid money wrongly convinced themselves that good would be done." #UN [In DRC, UN is using public's money for UNV posts UN officials trade for sex; @antonioguterres won't answer, bans Press, covers up.]
It's ASA St Clair, of the "World Sports Alliance." Judge calls it a scheme to defraud, using the UN. [Note: UN Spox refused to answer written Press questions about this and other UN-linked frauds. Today's UN says, Public be damned.
OK - US v. Milton trial Day 2, cross examination of Lackey who quoted Milton that "I don't give a sh*t about the environment." Inner City Press is covering the trial innercitypress.com/sdnytrial5niko… & inside view patreon.com/posts/71966059 and will live tweet, thread below
Jury entering!
Judge Ramos: Mr. Lackey, I remind you that you are under oath. Mr. Caruso?
Milton's lawyer Ken Caruso: You tried to you your knowledge to make money, right?
Lackey: No, that's not why I did it.
Caruso: You were a whistleblower to the SEC, right?
Lackey: Yes, I filed.
Caruso: And you stand to make more than the $600,000 you already made, right?
Lackey: I might.
Caruso: You have a lawyer representing you, who was in the courtroom yesterday, right?
Lackey: Yes, he's here.
OK - now US v. Trevor Milton opening arguments, in Nikola e-vehicle fraud trial. Inner City Press is covering the case and will live tweet, thread below patreon.com/posts/extra-fo…
Jury entering!
Judge Ramos: Ladies and gentleman, anything you may see or hear outside the courtroom is not evidence and should not be considered by you.
[Milton at defense table is whispering with lead counsel Marc Mukasey]
Judge Ramos: And now, the government's opening statement. Mr. Roos.
AUSA Roos: This is Trevor Milton, and he committed fraud. He lied to investors and made a billion dollars. His zero emission trucks, he was lying. He said they had billions of dollars in contracts
OK - for US v. Trevor Milton $NKLA trial, now in Courtroom 318 the lawyer mill around, waiting for pool of prospective jurors. Standing at railing is Milton, whispering with 2. Inner City Press aims to live tweet the trial, 1st thread below patreon.com/posts/e-car-tr…
Even here in courtroom 318, the witness & counsel boxes have COVID Plexiglass. But here, the jurors will retired to & ultimate deliberate in 1 rather than 2 jury rooms. There are other trials kicking off today, hence the delay in jury pool walk-over from 500 Pearl
Update of noon: we're only on the 2d prospective juror, who says he's read an article about #Nikola. Judge Ramos says, Why don't you come up and we'll speak to you at sidebar (non-public). Milton's lawyers go up; he remains at defense table.
OK - now at Josh Schulte proceeding before Judge Furman, who criticizes his language in yesterday's filing: he called Government c*ck hungry. Thread below
Judge Furman: That language does not belong in court filings. You can lose your right to represent yourself.
AUSA: We have imaged the seized laptop. We gave Mr Schulte his transcripts, and unclassified discovery.
Judge: Get back to me Monday.
Schulte: I didn't get any 3500 material. The SAMs unit does not have Microsoft Word, and you can't save anything. But they have had Lexis Nexis