Follow Up Court Case on the Enzo Crash in Malibu on 2/21/06

Thanks for that...keep us updated..

The End of the Story ........Part 1.

 

F that guy Eriksson.

 

What's the verdict??

Ferrari owner loses second exotic car

A $450,000 Mercedes owned by the Swedish owner of the Enzo Ferrari that crashed in Malibu last month is impounded by police.
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http://uk.video.yahoo.com/video/play?ei=UTF-8&p=eriksson+stefan&b=0&oid=342d3379135f0d44&rurl=abcnews.go.com&vdone=http%3A%2F%2***.video.yahoo.com%2Fvideo%2Fsearch%3Fei%3DUTF-8%26p%3Deriksson%2Bstefan

 

MISTRIAL!!!!

Deadlocked jury 10-2 for conviction, he's a free man!

Bummer.......
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Wow..........when you read about the whole gizmodo (Sp) thing, and realize what a fraud he is.......bleh.

 

HAHAHAHAHAHA !!!!

What did I tell you ?

http://www.ferrarichat.com/forum/showpost.php?p=136157159&postcount=1417

 

You seem happy........a proper end result, in your opinion?
Or just that you predicted the outcome....???

I guess his business fraud was a victumless crime, after all...

And the firearms charge, IIRC there was a brief 'impersonating a Peace Officer' claim, and some other details......


And the real driver is still shivering in the bushes up there off Canyon Road, unless the wildfire got him......

I was explaining only today why I had parked my Ferraris to a business associate...they seem to stand for all the wrong things, these days.....

 

I'm happy about the prediction only, the outcome is none of my business or interest.
When you have the prosecution in such a high profile trial offering a plea deal in the 11th hour you know they are in trouble.

 

Besides pulling a Mel Gibson, I think the man is a genius..

 

Just like I've always said, there is little to no consequence in cheating, lying and stealing. Of course there are certain exceptions, but look at guys like Mike Milken. How much is he worth? Does Boesky still have any money? Probably so.

I've always believed that great fortunes are usually the result of shady dealings and/or theft (Kennedy family, Gates, etc).

RMX

 

Just because this jury was deadlocked doesn't mean they can't try him again. And I hope they do.

 

Remember that statement, the next time somebody spits on your Ferrari or Benz, because a good car means that you *must* be a shady crook.

When did we raise the children of "the Land of Opportunity" to believe that success can only be achieved through "cheating"?

I might not like Gate's engineering philosophies (proprietary over standards, one-size-fits-all over security, bigger hardware over efficient code), but he did bring GUI to the masses. If we bought the bad with the good, that's on us for not demanding better, and then waiting until it was supplied.

But then, Gates never was an engineer -- software or otherwise. He's a salesman.

 

he said great fortunes, not success. gotta agree.

 

Do you tell your kids "just play fair" and everything else will take care of itself? I hate to say it, but I know many, many, MANY successful people who got to where they are by cutting corners, riding coattails, sleeping around, selling out colleagues, lying and generally compromising their honesty and sense of fair play. I see it everyday - those who are unwilling to put in what it takes to become "self-made' and compress the process through other means. There is no "fair play" anymore, and I think kids should know they're going to have to go out and "get theirs" if they want to have any semblence of a comfortable life someday. I also think kids should know at an early age the world is filled with flam-flammers, con-men, users, abusers and cheats who will step all over them to - successfully - enrich themselves. The hard truth is typically these people never pay a price for their deeds. They just continue benefitting. The major difference is in character; most people have none.

Some people do indeed work hard and find great success. Kudos to them - you're my kind of person. Unfortunately, this kind of individual is becoming rarer by the minute.

RMX

 

I highly disagree with what you are saying. Do people do all of the things you list? Of course they do. Does it help them get ahead? To a point, probably.

But there are far more people who get ahead because they work hard and are good at what they do. And to get really, really ahead, you need to work harder than everyone else.

I believe you're in commercial real estate and the music business, which are probably areas where the stuff you describe is more common than in other areas, such as banking or high tech (not that it doesn't happen there as well).

It's harder to get ahead in tech, for example, by doing all that stuff. Look at Stefan Eriksson. A sleazeball, for sure, but when it came down to it and they tried to sell their product, what happened? Collossal failure, that's what!

All the coattail riding, lying, sleeping around, etc. in the world couldn't help sell their product or make their business a success.

 

so who gets the cars?

 

and if this guy was in jail since march then if he gets arrested again for something else wont this count as time already served?

 

i wish the crash had just killed the guy...he's an *******

 

YOU are an ******

 

I carry a gun around every where I go just like this this Eriksson dude.

 

You really should get a clue before you talk like you know whats up.

 

Sorry to revive an old thread but I just read an update to this somewhat bizarre story.

http://www.dailynews.com/ci_6592498?source=most_viewed

Fugitive nabbed in Ferrari case
By Daily News
Article Last Updated: 08/10/2007 09:16:55 AM PDT


A 26-year-old man was in custody today after being on the run for more than a year following a high-speed crash in Malibu that destroyed a rare $1 million Ferrari Enzo.

Trevor Michael Karney, 26, was being held in lieu of $60,000 bail following his arrested at 9 a.m. Wednesday in Marina del Rey, officials said.

Karney reportedly has spent much of the last year in his native Dublin, Ireland. He returned to California around a month ago via Tijuana, and a friend helped smuggle him back into the U.S.

The arrest on suspicion of obstruction of justice and lying to authorities stems from an incident on February 21, 2006, when a Ferrari Enzo - one of only 400 ever built - smashed into a power pole on Pacific Coast Highway and disintegrated.

Deputies arrived to find Stefan Eriksson, Karney, and a "very large debris field."

"I noticed multiple pieces of what appeared to be a vehicle," sheriff's Deputy David Huelsen testified at a hearing in April 2006.

The hearing was to determine whether there was enough evidence to require Eriksson to stand trial.

Eriksson, a Swedish national, was sentenced in November of 2006 to three years in state prison after pleading no contest to embezzlement and being a felon with a firearm - charges that authorities developed while investigating the Ferrari crash. At the crash site, Eriksson claimed he had been a passenger in the Ferrari and that the driver, a German who he said he knew only as "Dietrich," got out and fled into the hills.

Karney allegedly claimed he was a passenger in a Mercedes-Benz that that he, too, saw the Ferrari driver flee into the hills.

A search-and-rescue team and a helicopter failed to find the alleged Ferrari driver, Huelsen testified.

Karney told deputies at the crash site that he was a friend of Eriksson and that his home address was a boat slip in Marina del Rey. That boat was a $14 million yacht.

The registered owner, Carl Freer, was later identified as a partner of Eriksson in a defunct European video game company called Gizmondo.

Eriksson was taken into custody at the scene after failing two alcohol breath tests. He later admitted to driving the Ferrari.

Authorities later determined that there had been no Mercedes and no "Dietrich" and that Karney had been a passenger in the Ferrari.

Authorities later said they determined that Karney had flagged down another motorist before deputies arrived at the scene. Karney allegedly asked the driver if he could borrow a cell phone. As Karney made a call, he sat in the other vehicle's front driver seat, the San Fransisco Chronicle has reported.

The motorist later called police, saying he had found a fully loaded Glock handgun clip jammed under the seat, according to the Chronicle.

Karney then disappeared, and reportedly fled to Dublin.

Authorities tracked him down this week, thanks to medical bills generated after his return to California and sent to a Marina del Rey address.

 

Interesting. "You can't flee the long arm of the law."