I missed the news last week that another Ex-Gizmondo executive, Carl Freer, had been arrested in LA for trying to buy a handgun, showing a badge showing him as a deputy commissioner of the San Gabriel Valley Transit Authority’s police department — the same strange organization to which Stefan Eriksson is tied. Freer’s home and yacht have also been raided, according to the Malibu Times, with “agents emerging with garbage sacks full of evidence from the yacht, and at least 16 rifles and shotguns were seized there and at Freer’s Bel-Air home.” The Times has plenty more details on the preliminary hearing in Stefan Eriksson’s trial, which recaps the ongoing bizarreness of the whole fiasco.
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[...] The Times has another comprehensive look at the collapse of Gizmondo and some of the personalities behind it. It details the spending excesses of the company’s execs and the criminal history of Carl Freer, which isn’t necessarily news, but it does make a connection between Freer (who’s been arrested on gun charges) and Xero Mobile, which looks like it could be the second coming of Gizmondo: None of this helps Freer’s reputation. And that still matters to him. He is an investor in a new telecoms venture, Xero Mobile, being set up in Los Angeles by former Gizmondo hands. They insist Freer is merely a shareholder; he is not a director. People close to Freer insist, however, that he was the driving force behind Xero. [...]
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