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I take it prosecutors are far more lenient when you're faking a phone UI to always show a full signal or surreptitiously switch to a new phone before the previous one runs out of memory and needs a restart, rather than pretending a 20-ton killing machine can drive itself up a hill.

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I think the most important differentiator is who gets fleeced. In the case of the phone, average Joes get stuffed. In Nikola's cases, rich people got stuffed.

That's why this gets prosecuted fairly quickly, while corporations regularly committing fraud against consumers remain in business for decades.

This is also why everyone has heard about Theranos.

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