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UpInArms

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Thu Feb 14, 2019, 07:19 AM Feb 2019

Ex-Broadcom CEO Henry Nicholas Charged With Drug Trafficking

Source: Bloomberg

Former Broadcom Inc. chief executive officer Henry Nicholas was charged with drug trafficking by Las Vegas prosecutors.

Nicholas and a female companion were arrested last summer at the Wynn Encore after police found a wide assortment of narcotics, including heroin and cocaine, in their villa. A criminal complaint was filed Wednesday, accusing them of five counts of drug trafficking and two counts of drug possession.

Police were called to the Encore last August when Nicholas’ companion was found unconscious in their suite with a semi-deflated balloon lodged in her mouth, according to the arrest report. Nicholas told hotel security that a canister found in the room contained nitrous oxide, also known as laughing gas. A search of the suite turned up heroin, methamphetamine, cocaine and mushrooms, according to the report.

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Nicholas, who co-founded Broadcom in 1991, faced federal narcotics charges in California in 2008, when prosecutors alleged, among other things, that he had spiked the drinks of customers with ecstasy. Those charges were dismissed two years later after a simultaneous stock-backdating case against him collapsed because the judge found the U.S. Attorney’s office had engaged in misconduct.

Read more: https://www.bloomberg.com/amp/news/articles/2019-02-14/ex-broadcom-ceo-henry-nicholas-charged-with-drug-trafficking

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Ex-Broadcom CEO Henry Nicholas Charged With Drug Trafficking (Original Post) UpInArms Feb 2019 OP
Oh my goodness, Henry. And you were a hero back in the day. KY_EnviroGuy Feb 2019 #1
This message was self-deleted by its author Fuzzpope Feb 2019 #2
PAR-TAY!!! SkyDaddy7 Feb 2019 #3

KY_EnviroGuy

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1. Oh my goodness, Henry. And you were a hero back in the day.
Thu Feb 14, 2019, 08:27 AM
Feb 2019

He's in good company with John McAfee. To quote Lord Acton....

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority, still more when you superadd the tendency or the certainty of corruption by authority.

And, we all know money buys unwarranted power because capitalism does not care......

We have seen so many high-tech superstars fall and fall hard after the 90s market boom.....

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