I agree...the only reason he has gained any 'wealth' in his lifetime was through defrauding people, starting with his alarm company to Dhybrid to Nikola....they were all frauds and too advantage of unsuspecting people. Now...did those people who bought his dream do enough DD? That is still up in the air.I hope the judge doesn't agree with you. Although I agree that one's lavish lifestyle would prejudicially affect a jury (what kind of plebian wouldn't hate how the rich live their lives?), that "lifestyle" is part of his grift and is the very evidence of his fraud. The two can not and should not be separated.
What baffles me is that it was so evident that Nikola was a fraud from the start....the way he dodged questions and promised ridiculous timelines. My a ha moment came when Cramer interviewed Milton on CNBC on their first 'public' earnings call and he said "I chose to be not present to let my executive team handle the call..." Your first publicly announced earnings call and the CEO/founder is missing from it???