We've got the George Argyros-owned apartment empire "systematically ripping off" its largely poor or lower middle class tenants by fabricating excuses for not refunding deposits to literally thousands of people.
We've got Donald L. Bren--owner of the Irvine Co. using strong arm tactics on small local businesses and, in a messy child support case in Los Angeles, declaring himself exempt from law because he's so rich.
And, perhaps most colorful of all, we've got Henry T. Nicholas III--a founde
As soon as news of Henry Samueli's guilty plea in his stock-option manipulation case broke yesterday, you might have noticed a brief, faint clickety-clacking sound rising over Orange County. The more engineers you work with, the more intense the flurry was.
It was the sound of two words being deleted from the line that read "The Henry Samueli School of Engineering, University of California, Irvine" on math-whiz resumes countywide.
Weekly food critic Edwin Goei has been getting easy laughs wi
Crunching numbers from the latest Forbes list of the wealthiest Americans, Orange County Business Journal concluded that local billionaires lost a combined $5.8 billion of wealth since September. That's not all that has shrunk: there are 793 billionaires on the latest Forbes list, compared with 1,125 a year ago.None of OC's billionaire nine had their wealth increase since mid-September. The highest-ranking local, Irvine Co. chairman Donald
Bren, was valued at $12 billion, the same
as six months
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Henry Samueli's next uniform may be an orange jumpsuit.The Anaheim Ducks owner, Irvine's Broadcom Corp. co-founder and UC Irvine Henry Samueli School of Engineering namesake may be prison bound.
Orange County Register reports a federal court today dismissed an appeal by the billionaire, who had sought to overturn a judge's rejection of a plea bargain that would have kept him out of prison. He now faces up to five years in prison at his yet-to-be scheduled se
Henry Samueli with a baseball fan.​Via the Anaheim Ducks, the National Hockey League announced today that Henry Samueli has been reinstated as an owner.
