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After surviving a 162 mph crash and a criminal trial that ended with a deadlocked jury, Bo Stefan Eriksson, at this point perhaps the world’s second most famous Ferrari driver behind Michael Schumacher, has accepted the security of a plea deal.
Eriksson, the Swedish ex-felon identified as the driver of a Ferrari Enzo that disintegrated in a crash on the Pacific Coast Highway last February, pleaded no contest to two counts of embezzlement related to two exotic cars and one count of possessing a gun illegally.
The rest of Eriksson’s exotic stable, a Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren and another Enzo, this one black, are in the custody of European banks, and Eriksson’s house in the exclusive Bel-Air section of Los Angeles, California, is going into receivership. Eriksson is expected to spend a year in prison, after which he may be deported — if he doesn’t leave voluntarily, as his lawyer says he will. Eriksson, a former executive of the failed Gizmondo handheld electronic game startup, had been accused of taking part in a scheme to bring the supercars to the U.S. illegally, and of illegally possessing a firearm.
If you’re still awaiting word on the whereabouts of the mysterious “Dietrich,” who Eriksson told police had been driving at the time of the crash, this might be a good time to give up.
- By David LaChance

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