{"id":16,"date":"2008-10-17T18:03:08","date_gmt":"2008-10-17T22:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/votenoprops6and9\/?p=16"},"modified":"2008-10-22T18:49:18","modified_gmt":"2008-10-22T22:49:18","slug":"sidebar-the-man-behind-props-6-and-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/votenoprops6and9\/2008\/10\/17\/sidebar-the-man-behind-props-6-and-9\/","title":{"rendered":"Sidebar: The man behind Props. 6 and 9"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/politics\/features\/2008\/11\/nicholas200811?currentPage=1\" target=\"_blank\">Vanity Fair<\/a><\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Henry Nicholas isn\u2019t just another tech-boom billionaire <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/media\/acrobat\/2008-06\/39657103.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">charged with backdating stock options<\/a>. All the drive, arrogance, and aggression he poured into building microchip-maker Broadcom\u2014one of the major success stories of the Internet Age\u2014morphed into an increasing obsession with sex and drugs, according to federal prosecutors. The author investigates the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/media\/acrobat\/2008-06\/39656932.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">allegations<\/a> about Nicholas\u2019s out-of-control world: the parade of prostitutes, the spiking of clients\u2019 drinks with Ecstasy, and the secret lair he built underneath the Orange County mansion he shared with his wife and kids.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Nicholas is the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/printedition\/front\/la-me-crime16-2008oct16,0,6239851.story\" target=\"_blank\">largest donor <\/a>to both campaigns. Neither campaign has returned his contributions. Read the full story, from <em>Vanity Fair<\/em>, <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/votenoprops6and9\/\" target=\"_blank\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Vanity Fair: Henry Nicholas isn\u2019t just another tech-boom billionaire charged with backdating stock options. All the drive, arrogance, and aggression he poured into building microchip-maker Broadcom\u2014one of the major success stories of the Internet Age\u2014morphed into an increasing obsession with sex and drugs, according to federal prosecutors. The author investigates the allegations about Nicholas\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1956,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/votenoprops6and9\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/votenoprops6and9\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/votenoprops6and9\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/votenoprops6and9\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1956"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/votenoprops6and9\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/votenoprops6and9\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/votenoprops6and9\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/votenoprops6and9\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/votenoprops6and9\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}