Silicon exec accused of spiking drinks, warehousing drugs

From the New York Times:

SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) -- Federal officials unsealed one indictment Thursday alleging co-founder Henry T. Nicholas III of chip maker Broadcom Corp. spiked the drinks of technology executives and customer representatives with ecstasy and maintained a warehouse for ecstasy, cocaine and methamphetamine.

Why didn't we know this guy? He sounds fantastic. Except for the drink-spiking, of course. And the conspiracy, securities fraud, and stock backdating. I guess it's pretty much just the warehouse that I like.

[#1 posted by Anonymous , June 5, 2008 1:42 PM]

I think you know this guy Joel. Only he could have slipped you a mickey that would have convinced you to carry way too many electronics into the woods to see "if you could do it"...five years after others had already done it. Give us a break. Your on a magic carpet ride, and soon...POOF...back down to earth and your insidious ways. Ignorant white doofus, Indeed.

You deserve Heineken. Nothing better would suit you.

[#2 posted by gabrielm , June 5, 2008 2:11 PM]

Warehouse fetish? Strangely enough, the prescribed cure for that is plenty of water (laced with ecstasy).

[#3 posted by Enochrewt , June 5, 2008 2:23 PM]

I thought this was how business is done.

[#4 posted by OM , June 5, 2008 4:04 PM]

...Geez, why didn't this guy hire me during all my leg troubles? He could have saved the state a lot of bucks pain meds!

[#5 posted by zuzu , June 5, 2008 4:18 PM]

I thought this was how business is done.

The Internet is Serious Business

[#6 posted by stuartmm , June 5, 2008 4:34 PM]

You have forgotten about the underground tunnels and brothel at his house.

"The grotto was reached by hidden doors with secret levers, leading to tunnels and a 2,000sq-ft underground sports bar called "Nick's Café". According to claims in court papers, this was a "secret and convenient lair", to cater for "Mr Nicholas's manic obsession with prostitutes" and his "addiction to cocaine and ecstasy"."

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/billionaire-accused-of-building-hidden-sex-and-drugs-den-457827.html

[#7 posted by mappo , June 5, 2008 7:12 PM]

Finally, a billionaire who understands what money is for.

[#8 posted by kleer001 , June 6, 2008 2:36 AM]

What? No LSD? Pssfftt... lightweight!

[#9 posted by Mikey Likes BoingBoing , June 6, 2008 5:42 AM]

Link to another article not requiring a registration:

http://abcnews.go.com/Business/WireStory?id=5011811&page=1

Two facts jumped out at me:

(1) The guy is NOT being held without bail! Look for the next chapter in this story to be how he flees the country.

(2) Lacing others' drinks with ecstacy is scary to say the least, but this blurb is hilarious: "In 2001, Nicholas smoked so much marijuana during a flight on a private jet between Orange County and Las Vegas that the pilot had to put on an oxygen mask, the indictment states."

That's not a very long flight...Cheech 'n Chong, move over!

[#10 posted by jungletek , June 7, 2008 4:22 AM]

My kind of flight.

[#11 posted by sonny p fontaine , June 7, 2008 4:08 PM]

indeed...

[#12 posted by zuzu , June 8, 2008 7:21 AM]

You have forgotten about the underground tunnels and brothel at his house.

!!!

I had forgotten.

[#13 posted by joeAnne , March 21, 2009 5:52 AM]

Of course, and it will be no surprise if at a certain point we will see him attending a drug rehabilitation center because this is the most probable thing to happen.