An electric vehicle entrepreneur with a bad Twitter addiction, dangerous propensity towards grandiose promises, a wandering spirit of innovation, a need for a babysitter, and a knack for raising the eyebrows and blood pressures of short sellers and regulators has been forced from his pedestal by a burgeoning fraud scandal.
No, not that one: He’s invincible. It’s Nikola Corp. founder Trevor Milton, who’s off to revolutionize vertical farming in a county with a population density of 22.5 per square mile, or at least claim to have done so.