WineGavel Owner Gets Jail For Embezzlement

The owner of WineGavel is finally going to jail, two and a half years years after Wine Industry Insight first broke the story of disappearing wine and mis-managed auction. See WineGavel Sued By Rare, Fine Wine Collectors for that original 2012 article.

The Napa Valley Register reported this morning that Joshua Krummenoehl, 41, of Brooklyn, New York, will spend 18 months in jail followed by 22 months of probation.

Since then, lawsuit after lawsuit has plagued the company even after new management stepped in to try and clean things up:

• WineGavel Battling Remy Cointreau & Multiple Other Lawsuits
• Final Hammer Dropping On WineGavel?