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Fun Facts with Stephan Eriksson! - A Black Falcon - 18th April 2006
http://www.factornews.com/viewscreen.php?galid=5331&imgid=41901
Anyone else following the Eriksson debacle? Every news item is even more hilariuous than the last one... :)
(latest news: http://smh.com.au/news/world/supercar-crash-75m-bail-set/2006/04/18/1145126098021.html )
Click that first link. The web of connections is awesome... in a "how to extort your company" way...
Ahh yes, Stephan Eriksson. Ex-Gizmondo Europe executive. Who left when it was discovered that he, as well as several other Gizmondo execs, had spent several years in jail in Sweden for being a member of the Swedish Mafia. Who sold games from companies they owned to the company they ran (Gizmondo), pocketing the money in the process. Who then came to the US, at least in part to escape creditors. With three cars... which he stopped paying the bank payments on, lost the titles to, and kept anyway. Which worked for him, until he crashed one a while back... :D
And now he's in jail with $7.5 million in bail needed, for the $5.2 million that the cars are worth in total (including the destroyed Ferrari Enzo, another Enzo, and a listed-as-stolen Mercedes McLaren SLR) plus some for being a flight risk. And Gizmondo is near bankruptcy.
Oh, I left out the middle part... the 162-mile-an-hour crash into a telephone pole on a California highway... Eriksson's claims that he wasn't driving, the "missing driver", "Dietrich" was instead... the "other car" the Enzo was racing, which wasn't there, and its passenger "Trevor", who left a loaded gun in the glove compartment of someone who stopped at the crash site... the first "homeland security officers" who responded, and left with "Trevor"... how "Trevor" later dissapeared on fellow ex-Gizmondo exec Carl Freer's yacht... and I thought just the fact that a major gaming company (even Gizmondo) was employing several ex-mafia members as senior executives was a big story! :D
Just read this article. Awesome stuff, in a 'watching a train wreck' way...
http://www.gamerevolution.com/static/index.php?section=feature&sub=gizmondo&page=index
Moral of the story: Don't drink and drive. :) (in addition to all that, Eriksson was legally drunk at the time of the crash...)
Fun Facts with Stephan Eriksson! - A Black Falcon - 27th April 2006
Latest news!
http://www.kotaku.com/gaming/gizmondo/another-gizmondo-exec-arrested-170003.php