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  • June 2008

    • Ex-Broadcom Boss Charged With Drugging Exec Drinks

      Wall Street Journal  |  Jun 6, 08 5:27 AM CDT

      Ex-Broadcom Boss Charged With Drugging Exec Drinks

      (Newser) - Broadcom's co-founder has been indicted on an astounding spate of federal fraud and narcotics charges, the Wall Street Journal reports. Henry Nicholas III is accused of using and distributing drugs over a seven-year period while directing a criminal stock options-backdating conspiracy that cost the firm billions. Prosecutors claim he secretly spiked the drinks of technology executives and customers with Ecstacy. More »

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      CEO  • drug abuse  • federal indictment  • stock option backdating  • stock options  • Broadcom  • drugging  • backdating scandal

  • May 2008

    • Drugged California Tourist Killed by Train in Rome

      Los Angeles Times  |  May 27, 08 4:27 AM CDT

      Drugged California Tourist Killed by Train in Rome

      (Newser) - An elderly American tourist drugged by a thief was killed by a train as he wandered along the tracks in a daze, the Los Angeles Times reports. The 76-year-old traveler and his wife were befriended by a man who gave them drug-laced cappuccinos in a Rome train station and then robbed them as they slept. A 54-year-old suspect has been arrested. More »

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      Italy  • theft  • robbery  • Rome  • tourists  • drugging  • cappuccino

  • May 2007

    • Immigrants Allege Border Drugging

      Los Angeles Times  |  May 9, 07 12:57 PM CDT

      Immigrants Allege Border Drugging

      (Newser) - Two illegal immigrants say they were drugged against their will by U.S. officials trying to deport them, their ACLU lawyer said yesterday. The two men, one Indonesian and one Senegalese, claim to have been injected with pyschotropic drugs during deportation proceedings; neither had been diagnosed with a mental illness that would have required the medication. More »

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      immigration  • illegal immigrant  • abuse  • deportation  • drugging

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