story (with no revenue) that naive investors bought into but don't think they scammed taxpayers. I am sure Nikola got some govt incentives but part of why they left Utah is Gov Herbert wouldn't give them the incentives they wanted.

Article reads far worse than Nikolas

“… Pretty much anyone who spoke up ended up not having a job anymore… People would call me and say that they weren’t comfortable being the actual admin because they weren’t licensed… And basically, I would be told, ‘oh, you don’t need to worry about that’… And then I would typically get a call, maybe 30 days or less… telling me that we needed to terminate that person because their numbers were too low or whatever, and it did happen kind of often…”