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To: bentway who wrote (389091)	6/6/2008 3:25:32 AM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1575841

Hey Chris, I thought you might like this. Broadcom is just a few blocks away from my office in Irvine, CA. The founder is a political conservative, but wow, he parties like a liberal! Broadcom ex-CEO indicted over drug parties, options news.yahoo.com By Alex Dobuzinskis and Peter Henderson Thu Jun 5, 9:59 PM ET SANTA ANA/LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Broadcom Corp's (BRCM.O) former CEO took cocaine and spiked customers' drinks with ecstasy while also directing a criminal stock-options backdating conspiracy that cost the microchip company $2.2 billion, federal indictments released on Thursday charged. Former chief executive and company co-founder Henry Nicholas III also hired prostitutes for himself and others and then used payoffs or threatened violence to keep the conduct secret, one federal indictment alleges.