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Nikola (NASDAQ: NKLA) continues to be embroiled in controversy.  The electric vehicle manufacturer's founder and former executive chairman Trevor Milton has been  two women. 

One of the women is Milton’s cousin Aubrey Ferrin Smith. She was 15 and her cousin was 17 when the incident took place. The alleged assault happened in 1999, at their grandfather’s funeral. 

Smith filed a complaint with the Holladay, Utah police department on Saturday. This was confirmed by Sgt. Melody Cutler with the Unified Police Department. 

Smith said the alleged assault took place at her uncle’s house when the two cousins were watching TV alone. The cousins are from a Mormon family. She claimed that she reported the assault to friends and her mother. She also went to the bishop of her church in Naperville, Illinois.

She went public with accusations against Milton on social media, in 2017 on Facebook and last week on Twitter.

Smith said, “When I was assaulted, I was 15. I didn’t want to tell anyone, because I figured I should have known better,” on her Facebook account. She also described confronting Milton years later and he said, "He was only apologizing because he was my cousin.”

A second woman comes forward accusing Trevor Milton

The second woman’s complaint was filed with the police in St. George, Utah on Friday. St. George Police Department Capt. Mike Giles confirmed that a complaint was filed.

The victim was 15 and Milton was 22 when the alleged assault happened in 2004. As a sexual assault victim, her identity is being protected.

The woman was working as Milton’s assistant at St. George Security & Alarms. The office had a movie room where the alleged assault took place. A police official in St. George confirmed that a formal complaint involving a minor was filed.

The woman is now 32 and an attorney who claimed to have spent the last 16 years trying to forget the event.  

“He was in a position of power and he would give me a ride home from that job and this happened at the end of one of the days that I worked there and I was somewhat at his mercy because I couldn’t even go home until he was going to give me a ride home,” the woman explained.

Craig Johnson, a former Utah prosecutor is representing both women. 

A spokesman for Milton said he “strongly denies these false allegations.” The spokesman did not say whether Milton has been in touch with the Utah authorities or give any details of his account of the alleged incidents.

“At no point in his life has Mr. Milton ever engaged in any inappropriate physical contact with anyone,” the spokesman for Milton told The Post in a statement.

Trevor Milton still in freefall

The allegations of sexual assault are the latest controversy engulfing the 38-year-old founder of the electric vehicle manufacturer. Milton who once billed himself as the “Tesla killer."