Crashed Enzo

Post by **simon** » Fri Oct 20, 2006 12:43 pm

For those who remember the guy who crashed his Enzo and claimed it was a German guy driving, he's since pleaded guilty to drink driving!

http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,, ... 04,00.html

What a fanny

Post by ed » Fri Oct 20, 2006 1:14 pm

think his blood on the drivers side airbag might have given it away!
What a tw@, i reckon hell get atleast 5 years for all the other charges!

DaveG · Post by **DaveG** » Fri Oct 20, 2006 1:46 pm

There is a real interesting and bizarre back story to this accident.

http://wired.com/wired/archive/14.10/gizmondo.html

It involves, guns, anti-terrorism organisiations, organised crime, international fraud oh and Danni Minogue!

Has all the makings of a movie plot!

D

Sanjøy · Post by **Sanjøy** » Fri Oct 20, 2006 1:48 pm

He is uber rich, he will walk.

jamie · Post by **jamie** » Fri Oct 20, 2006 1:48 pm

Wasn't the car about to be reposesed by a bank in the UK due to him defaulting on payments

Post by ed » Fri Oct 20, 2006 1:52 pm

The car was owned buy the bank and was illegally exported/imported. It was still on UK plates!

Skyenet · Post by **Skyenet** » Fri Oct 20, 2006 2:35 pm

DaveG wrote: Has all the makings of a movie plot!

D

Would inded make a good movie though the stunt costs for the crash might be expensive

The_Rossatron · Post by **The_Rossatron** » Fri Oct 20, 2006 2:44 pm

DaveG wrote:There is a real interesting and bizarre back story to this accident.

http://wired.com/wired/archive/14.10/gizmondo.html

It involves, guns, anti-terrorism organisiations, organised crime, international fraud oh and Danni Minogue!

Has all the makings of a movie plot!

D

Don't forget he was CEO of Gizmondo the ill-fated games company!

Andy G · Post by **Andy G** » Fri Oct 20, 2006 3:42 pm

He went through money like water at Gizmondo.

The scary thing was the banks were backing him. His salary was outrageous also!

Post by ed » Thu Nov 09, 2006 10:19 am

This just in....

Swede in Ferrari crash gets three years for other charges

LOS ANGELES, California (AP) -- A Swedish video game entrepreneur who wrecked a rare Ferrari by smashing it into a Malibu power pole at 162 mph was sentenced to three years in prison Tuesday after he pleaded no contest to embezzling two other fancy cars and illegally possessing a gun.
Bo Stefan M. Eriksson, 44, entered the pleas four days after a jury deadlocked in his trial, closing a case that gained international notoriety after the spectacular Pacific Coast Highway crash.
Eriksson entered the pleas to two felony charges of embezzlement with the special allegation that the fraud exceeded $500,000. He also pleaded no contest to being a felon in possession of a firearm -- a .357-magnum handgun found in a search of his Bel-Air mansion in March.
He spent five years in a Swedish prison in the 1990s for assault, extortion and other crimes.
"It was a fair resolution," prosecutor Tamara Hall said after the hearing.
"There was a meeting of the minds. That's why there's a settlement," said Alec Rose, one of Eriksson's attorneys.
Two other counts of grand theft auto were dismissed.
Eriksson previously pleaded no contest to a drunk driving charge in connection with the February 21 crash that split in two a rare Ferrari Enzo valued at $1.5 million.
Jim Parkman, Eriksson's lead attorney, said Eriksson was concerned about "the cost and the energy" of a second trial.
The beefy, blond former video game firm executive could have faced more than 11 years in prison had he been convicted. Instead, he could be out of prison in a year because of time served and good behavior, Parkman said. Eriksson has been in jail since his April arrest.
"He wanted to move on with his life. He feels like he could get out and be successful again," Parkman said in a telephone interview after the hearing.
Prosecutors said Eriksson will face deportation after he completes his sentence and will not be allowed to return to the U.S.
His mansion, valued at up to $5.2 million, was seized and will be sold to help pay any restitution and fines, prosecutors said.

roxteddy · Post by **roxteddy** » Thu Nov 09, 2006 7:50 pm

that's gotta end up a movie at some stage and the dude will make more money from it more than likely..... the stuff about getting homeland security badges so that they can carry guns is weird... especially as it was some sort of bus for old folks.....

mental.....only in america eh...