Usually when a judge says that you have had "a serious drug problem," you're in trouble. When he does so in a court of law in which you've been accused of drug-related debauchery... well, surely nothing good can happen. Yet somehow, thanks to the luck of the filthy rich, Henry T Nicholas III, co-founder of
Broadcom, has managed to escape the
crazy allegations of wild, drug-filled parties, of spiking executives' drinks with MDMA, and of once smoking so much marijuana on a private airplane that the pilot had to don a gas mask. That said, our visions of wild telecom nights and coke-riddled days aren't necessarily false: the case is being thrown out thanks to improper conduct on behalf of the prosecution, who apparently not only used improper means to influence witnesses but was also responsible for leaking information to the press. (Oops.) Nicholas indicates he's now planning on doing some charity work, but he shouldn't party away his legal fund just yet -- this has appeal written all over it.
posted January 29th 2010 8:09AM
@Solidstate89
I'm working at the wrong company.
Damn that guy can really toke it up!
@FauxNews Hahaha that graphic is quality. That Broadcom chip looks like Whitney Houston's coffee table.
@FauxNews Cocaines one helluva drug!
@Rick James
The nose knows and the nose says NO!
@FauxNews That's BS about the gas mask, when you exhale marijuana smoke it's almost entirely tar and other byproducts
@nicholas1987ucs
I'm pretty sure it was just a comfort thing. try sitting in a room full of people smoking and then imagine comfortably flying a plane . . . its annoying.
@FauxNews
I love these posts - Nick never did any of this stuff - I'm his cousin...his xwife trumped up most of this crap to get the kids - I will share one funny post from another site when all this first surfaced - Some geek kid wrote, "Dang, we've been waiting tfor this guy all our lives - coke, sex dens, prostitutes - finally we get to look COOL!!
@cdunaway Cousin! Lets go bowling.
WTF?
@n0ne
Why is it illegal anyway? Here is a novel idea; let people who wants to use stuff like that do it.
It is a sad joke wasting taxpayer-money on this and bothering people who should be free to eat or drink or smoke what they want.
take a hit from the bong....all night long....
I wish I was on that flight ;)
Stop penalizing drug use, everybody need them. That Judge probably is having his own parties here and there.
Orgies? big deal.
" Filed under Misc. Gadgets" Really? Where is the Gadget Related Stuff ? Who cares about that Junkie! Let him rot his Brain! Unless of course if we are talking about a new Drug , based on nanomachines which Give you true multitasking and Flash support into Real Life
The pilot with a gas mask line made me crack up! :D
Steve Jobs have a serious drug problems sayin that the ipad is a piece of magic and the best product they develop and nobody said nothing...
@Steve CEO Ballmer
Now we know who Nicholas gave the MDMA to :)
Legend! No wonder my broadcom wireless is always misbehaving
The pilot probably borrowed the gas mask from him...
"Hey Henry, Lemme get a rip off that gas mask."
He's gonna help the people in jamaica rebuild.
On the charges; personally I don't mind people smoking some weed and doing some coke even, but spiking drinks of other people, well I'd lock you up for that one if I was the judge, that's 110% unacceptable.
This is a criminal case; there are no prosecutorial appeals in criminal cases - double jeopardy would apply since the dismissal is a final judgment on the charges.
He may snort the remains of his defense fund away in peace.
@Argentum
Unless he's stupid enough to get caught again.
@BigJayDogg3
In which case it would not be considered an appeal.
The prosecution can't appeal on dismissal in criminal cases... maybe you all should stick to talking about whatever it is you all know stuff about.
@rombuu
New to me, and interesting, but then how come they al the time do when they can't? Even biden promised the iraqi to appeal the blackwater case, isn't murder a criminal case?
I'm no lawyer but this seems a bit odd.
So the "HD" stands for Hard Drugs.
if you got money you can get off on anything
Nice pic. :)
That is one of the better pics I've seen for an Engadget post