Former Gizmondo-brand snake-oil salesman and Ferrari Enzo-killer Bo Stefan “Fat Steffe” Eriksson has been released from a Los Angeles jail. Good news for him, but bad news for exotic cars everywhere. The former executive with ties to the failed Gizmondo handheld was arrested on grand theft auto charges and later charged with embezzlement, to which he pleaded “no contest.” Old Bo is on his way to either Sweden or Germany now, where we assume he’ll start work on Gizmondo Advance or some such nonsense. We simply can’t wait to never hear from him again.
Ferrari Swede released from jail [The Local via Jalopnik]
While the Gizmondo handheld device was almost immediately forgettable, the storied lives of its executives, especially notorious “Uppsula mafioso” Stefan Eriksson, have stayed with us much longer than the failed device. Today, the bizarre yarn of Eriksson’s Ferrari Enzo crash in Malibu adds another thread. The mysterious “Dietrich”, an otherwise unidentified German man whom Eriksson told police was driving the rare wrecked sports car, was finally arrested by police.