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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 2009
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NEWS ABOUT: drugging

drugging stories: 3 news summaries

Ex-Broadcom Boss Charged With Drugging Exec Drinks

Dozens of drug, fraud charges for billionaire

Jun 6, 08 5:27 AM CDT
(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... More »

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

 Drugged California Tourist 
 Killed by Train in Rome

Traveler stumbled onto track after cappuccino spiked by thief

May 27, 08 4:27 AM CDT
(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... More »

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

Immigrants Allege Border Drugging

Say they were forced to take psychotropic drugs during
deportation proceedings

May 9, 07 12:57 PM CDT
(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... More »

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immigration • illegal immigrant • abuse • deportation • drugging

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