pimg src=”http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2009/07/20598.jpg” class=”left image340″ width=”340″ /a class=”autolink” title=”Click here to read more posts tagged STEFAN ERIKSSON” href=”http://gizmodo.com/tag/stefan-eriksson/”Stefan Eriksson/a, head of Gizmondo (the failed handheld gaming company who couldn’t even plagiarize our name correctly), was sentenced to 1.5 years in prison for robbery, attempted blackmail and making illegal threats (which threats emare/em legal?)./p pEriksson, whose story reaches Mark Sanford levels of ridiculous, is famous for a href=”http://gizmodo.com/156252/gizmondo-exec-crashes-ferrari-creates-crappy-handheld-gaming-device”crashing/a a rare Ferrari, a href=”http://gizmodo.com/347643/gizmondos-ferrari+crashing-exec-goes-free”escaping/a at least one prison sentence, possibly having a href=”http://gizmodo.com/5234882/lord-help-us-all-gizmondo-the-movie”a movie/a made about him, leading some sort of mafia in Sweden in the 1990s and making a product nobody ever wanted, a href=”http://gizmodo.com/235100/be-a-part-of-history-own-a-gizmondo”ever/a. Referred to in his native Sweden as “a class=”autolink” title=”Click here to read more posts tagged FAT STEFAN” href=”http://gizmodo.com/tag/fat-stefan/”Fat Stefan/a,” because he’s fat, Eriksson will serve 18 months in prison for his multitude of mafia and gadget-related crimes. Eriksson is a hilarious dirtbag the likes of which […]

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