The recently-pardoned founder of Nikola, Trevor Milton, has been fighting a subpoena from the creditors of his bankrupt electric trucking company.

The official committee of unsecured creditors in the bankruptcy case sent the subpoena to Milton’s lawyers on April 1, according to a recent filing . Milton owed Nikola nearly $100 million before it filed for bankruptcy in February, which followed an arbitration case with the company in 2023 related to his criminal conviction that he lost.

The committee says Milton still hasn’t paid, and is trying to use the subpoena to determine the current state of his financial affairs.

Before it went bankrupt, Nikola sued Milton in federal court in Arizona, and accused him of “fraudulently transferring away tens of millions of dollars of his assets in o

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