Trevor Milton: Trevor Milton Wife: Who Is Chelsey Bergmann?

Nikola founder Trevor Milton

Nikola founder Trevor Milton

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Nikola founder Trevor Milton was sentenced Monday to four years in prison in connection to securities fraud. The sentencing was far lower than the 11 years prosecutors requested in Judge Edgardo Ramo's Manhattan court. Milton was found guilty last year of lying to investors about the company's technology.

Prosecutors said that Milton misled investors by stating that Nikola had built a pickup from the 'ground up' and it had developed its own batteries. However, the company was buying them.

Who is Trevor Milton's wife Chelsey Bergmann?

Trevor Milton has been married to Chelsey Bergmann since 2017. During the sentencing hearing, Milton said he stepped down from the CEO post at Nikola not because of fraud allegations, but to support his wife.

“I stepped down because my wife was suffering live threatening sickness,” he said in his statement, according to reporter Matthew Russell Lee of Inner City Press.

"She suffered medical malpractice, someone else’s plasma. So I stepped down for that – not because I was a fraud. The truth matters. I chose my wife over money or power.”

On Monday, Matthew Podolsky, a prosecutor, said: "There has to be a message that whether you are an entrepreneur, a startup founder, a corporate executive, when you go out there and talk about your company, you must be honest."

"I did not intend to harm anyone and I did not commit those crimes levied against me," Milton said.

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