Juicy tidbits from indictment of Broadcom founder

In the LA Times' Technology blog, Chris Gaither reports that the indictment against billionaire Broadcom founder Dr. Henry T. Nicholas III has gotten "jucier."

One of the two indictments against the Broadcom founder that were unsealed today alleged that Nicholas put Ecstasy in the drinks of unsuspecting high-tech executives, bought prostitutes for customers of the Irvine-based chip company and both used and distributed illicit drugs, including cocaine and methamphetamines.

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For aficionados of rich-people-being-naughty stories, there's this delicious tidbit from the story by Scott Reckard and Kim Christensen: The pilot of a private plane taking Nicholas and guests from Orange County to Las Vegas had to put on an oxygen mask because they smoked so much marijuana.

The partying wasn't reserved for the air, the government says. According to the story, the indictment also lists a few properties allegedly used for nefarious purposes:

An equestrian estate in Laguna Hills, where Nicholas had constructed a warren of tunnels and underground rooms, including one that contractors alleged was intended to become a secret "sex lair."

The blog entry includes links to PDFs of the indictments. Link

[#1 posted by themindfantastic , June 5, 2008 5:27 PM]

Aww come on, who doesn't have tunnels in the basement leading to secret sex lairs these days? Huh? Come on we all do!

[#2 posted by davevontexas , June 5, 2008 5:36 PM]

I don't mind the hookers and the X, but I'll be damned if I can forgive that no-good son of a bitch for the bcm43xx chipset.

I hope they fry his ass.

[#3 posted by JoshuaZ , June 5, 2008 5:57 PM]

While putting drugs in non-consenting individuals drinks is really bad, I find it interesting that most of the material is behavior with consenting adults.

[#4 posted by Aloisius , June 5, 2008 6:07 PM]

And yet Valleywag never managed to cover this guy...

[#5 posted by brasky , June 5, 2008 6:49 PM]

'Sex Cauldron'?! I thought they shut that place down!

oh, wait.

[#6 posted by Antinous , June 5, 2008 9:44 PM]

Nicholas put Ecstasy in the drinks of unsuspecting high-tech executives

Grace Slick famously tried to sneak acid into the punchbowl when she was invited to a White House garden party for Tricia and Julie Nixon. She was a visionary.

[#7 posted by Halloween Jack , June 6, 2008 7:43 AM]

He's being sued by a former "personal assistant" (i.e. henchman) named Kato. Oh, lordy.

[#8 posted by tyrsalvia , June 6, 2008 11:01 AM]

Check out this LA Times article a friend sent me on this yesterday:

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-nicholas18jul18,0,7022711.story

[#9 posted by Johan Larson , June 6, 2008 6:33 PM]

I'm still waiting for an idle billionaire to build himself a proper island fortress.

[#10 posted by Agent 86 , June 8, 2008 2:35 AM]

made from 2-liters?