Tech Millionare Who Beat Girlfriend 117 Times Ducks Jail Despite Damning Video

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RadiumOne CEO Gurbaksh Chahal pleaded guilty to misdemeanor domestic violence and battery charges last week, dodging 45 felony counts for the videotaped 30-minute beating of his girlfriend.

Chahal, 31, faces no jail time. He was sentenced to three years' probation, 52 weeks in a domestic violence training program and 25 hours of community service. The Internet mogul was arrested in August after police responded to a 911 domestic violence call at his San Francisco penthouse apartment.

His girlfriend told arriving officers that she was unable to breathe and that Chahal had told her four times, "I’m going to kill you," San Francisco Officer Anh Nguyen told the San Francisco Business Times in March. “She stated she was in fear for her life.”

Home security footage reportedly showed Chahal beating and kicking his girlfriend 117 times during the 30-minute attack. Prosecutors said Chahal lashed out at his girlfriend upon learning that she had cheated on him with another man during a trip to Las Vegas, according to court documents.

Soon after Chahal posted his $1 million bail and hired former federal prosecutor James Lassart as his attorney, his girlfriend stopped cooperating with the investigation and refused to testify against him. During a preliminary hearing, Lassart, who is also defending embattled state Sen. Leland Yee (D-Calif.) on corruption charges, did not deny that Chahal repeatedly struck his girlfriend, but insisted the physical damage was overblown.

In a crippling blow to the prosecution, San Francisco Superior Court Judge Brendan Conroy ruled that the surveillance video could not be used as evidence because police seized it illegally from Chahal’s apartment. The prosecution argued it likely would have been erased if police had waited for a warrant.

Alex Bastian, spokesman with the San Francisco District Attorney's Office, issued a statement after the guilty plea on Thursday.

“We disagree with the judge’s suppression of the video. The judge’s ruling substantially weakened the evidence we had for prosecution,” Bastian said. “Though it is not the outcome we had hoped for, the case has reached a resolution where the defendant acknowledges guilt, is placed on domestic violence probation and has to take domestic violence classes.”

According to the San Francisco Chronicle, “The deal also means that Chahal -- with no felony conviction -- will be allowed to stay on the board of his $100 million-a-year social advertising technology company, RadiumOne, which has been preparing to go public.”

Chahal, once named one of America's "most eligible bachelors" by ExtraTV, managed to advance his online-advertising network into its final stages for an initial public stock offering despite his arrest. He also secured a new partnership with publisher Condé Nast in April.

Chahal sold his first online-ad network, ClickAgents.com Inc., to ValueClick Inc. at the age of 16 for $20.5 million in stock. Seven years later, he sold BlueLithium Inc., which he also founded, to Yahoo for $300 million in cash.

In 2009, he authored a book about himself called The Dream: How I Learned the Risks and Rewards of Entrepreneurship and Made Millions.

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[Handsback]

Wait let me guess: He wouldn't 'fare well in prison' right?

Someone watched this dude beat his girl for 30 minutes straight and had to count the 117 times he hit his girl. They'll lock up blacks on a description (black male, about 6' tall, 150-300 lbs, with a nose and a right foot ) and keep us there on whatever but this dude beat the shyt out of his girl ON TAPE IN HIS HOME and naw we off that? Cool deal 'merica.

But at being a millionaire at 16.

 

[Zach Lowe]

Sohh is the girl white or Indian like the dude

 

[Orbital-Fetus]

where is the vid at?

 

[tmonster]

Prison would negatively affect his tender greenback sensibilities

 

[newworldafro]

Prison would negatively affect his tender greenback sensibilities

Dude clearly has chronic affluenza ..... that severe case

 

[Matt504]

wellllllllll she did cheat in Vegas, and legally what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas, coupled with the illegal seizure of the surveillance tapes, the beating basically never happened.

 

[Suicide King]

Very misleading.

Police illegally obtained the video.
Girlfriend won't cooperate.

Even I could beat this case based on the circumstances.

 

[theworldismine13]

Very misleading.

Police illegally obtained the video.
Girlfriend won't cooperate.

Even I could beat this case based on the circumstances.

its still fuked up that he got away, but yeah

i forgot if it was ktl or bgol that put me on to it, but he has a good book about how he got started
obviously i would recommend downloading it illegally

 

[Kritic]

i thought what happens in vegas stays in vegas .
or did he obtain what happened in vegas illegally





but this was easy to beat since they got the tape illegally.
and sometimes these mouthy "modern" bytches know they need to be bus driver upper cutted once in a while too. they know it. they must know it.

these days unless i hear both sides of the story i really don't be siding with these bytches anymore. she ain't cooperating cause she deserved the Beats by Chadal.

 

[无名的]

Wait let me guess: He wouldn't 'fare well in prison' right?

Someone watched this dude beat his girl for 30 minutes straight and had to count the 117 times he hit his girl. They'll lock up blacks on a description (black male, about 6' tall, 150-300 lbs, with a nose and a right foot ) and keep us there on whatever but this dude beat the shyt out of his girl ON TAPE IN HIS HOME and naw we off that? Cool deal 'merica.

But at being a millionaire at 16.

Will you shut the fukk up when Ray Rice spends no time in jail and then admit money has more of an influence on the justice system than race?

 

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Will you shut the fukk up when Ray Rice spends no time in jail and then admit money has more of an influence on the justice system than race?

Sure thing boss.

Soon as I see some black kids catchin' that there affluenza disease and white 9 year olds get some pistols pulled on them for building tree forts.

Sounds like a fair trade to me.

 

[kevm3]

Rich person gets off easy after scum-baggish behavior... not surprising

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

oh hell nah...this is that indian dude

 

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Very misleading.

Police illegally obtained the video.
Girlfriend won't cooperate.

Even I could beat this case based on the circumstances.

Except the defendant clearly admitted that he committed the crimes in question. His defense amounted to saying she didn't get it that bad.