Web tycoon gets year in prison in abusive behavior at home case

Web tycoon gets year in prison in abusive behavior at home case

SAN FRANCISCO: A Silicon Valley web investor who sold his startup for $300 million at 25 years old and showed up on "The Oprah Winfrey Show" as a very qualified single guy was sentenced Friday to a year in prison for disregarding his probation in an abusive behavior at home case. 

Nonetheless, Gurbaksh Chahal, 34, won't instantly start serving the sentence on the grounds that San Francisco Superior Court Judge Tracie Brown refered to questions about the confirmation while giving him an opportunity to bid her decision. 

Cocoa decided a month ago that Chahal had abused the probation requested after he confessed in 2014 to wrongdoing allegations of battery and aggressive behavior at home battery. 

Prosecutors said observation footage from his San Francisco penthouse indicated him punching and kicking his sweetheart more than 100 times and attempting to cover her with a cushion. 

Chahal entered his supplication to the diminished charges after the lady quit collaborating with powers and a judge said the video couldn't be utilized as proof since it had been dishonorably gotten. 

He was blamed for disregarding his probation by kicking another sweetheart, who additionally didn't collaborate with prosecutors. 

Chahal said both ladies had undermined him, as per prosecutors. 

Chahal's lawyer, James Lassart, said in court Friday that his customer was denied his entitlement to scrutinize the lady amid his probation disavowal hearing when she neglected to go to the procedure. 

"In this example, the constitution requires that my customer be permitted to stand up to his informer," Lassart said.

Cocoa permitted the penthouse video to be conceded as proof in the probation hearing, and she surveyed it secretly before issuing her decision a month ago. 

Lassart said the judge ought not consider the video in her sentencing in light of the fact that it had already been ruled prohibited. The footage has not been played in court or made open. 

Collaborator District Attorney O'Bryan Kenney required a sentence of year and a half, saying Chahal had demonstrated no regret and conferred a second demonstration of viciousness months after his abusive behavior at home conviction. 

"He unmistakably didn't get the message," Kenney told the judge. 

Chahal made $300 million in 2007 when he sold his advanced publicizing organization to Yahoo. After a year, he showed up on "The Oprah Winfrey Show" in a section that highlighted his prosperity and advanced him as a very qualified unhitched male. 

Chahal's lawful hardships stretch out past the criminal case. 

Two previous workers have sued him for separation, painting him as a tormenting manager who considered little ladies. 

Patricia Glaser, the legal advisor speaking to Chahal in the claims, did not give back an email or call looking for input. 

An email to Chahal's internet promoting innovation organization, Gravity4, was not returned. A message to his Twitter account likewise went unanswered. 

Confronted with the underlying aggressive behavior at home charges, Chahal got assistance from intense previous San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown and the previous CFO for the condition of California, Steve Westly, as indicated by one of the claims and messages amongst Westly and Chahal reported by The Wall Street Journal. 

Westly, who was on the leading group of an organization Chahal established, proposed the specialist contact Willie Brown, as per a 2015 claim by Yousef Khraibut, a previous Gravity4 worker. 

Chahal told Khraibut that he paid Brown a $250,000 retainer to apply weight on the head prosecutor to release the charges, saying Brown had the "juice" to make them vanish, the claim said. 

Chestnut did not give back a message left at his law office. He said in a radio meeting last September that he was requested that set up together a legitimate group to shield Chahal however did nothing dishonest and returned the majority of the $250,000. 

Westly, whose name has been specified as a conceivable gubernatorial hopeful in 2018, said in an announcement that he doesn't remark on progressing lawful cases however included that aggressive behavior at home in any structure is unforgivable. 

In court reports, Chahal shot back that Khraibut was discharged for not doing his work and was looking for attention.