Anti-American socialists like the watchdogs at the Anti-Advertising Agency often point out that the advertising industry is—without exaggeration—one of the biggest vandals in New York City. Illegal advertising includes everything from entire sides of buildings and scaffoldings covered in banner ads without permits, to virtually the entire "guerilla marketing" and "street team" industries. All those things are, technically speaking, vandalism. So the NYPD's vandal squad should be breaking down ad agency doors daily, right? This handy pie chart puts the law enforcement situation into perspective. Click to enlarge. [via AAA]

A video that was posted to YouTube last summer portrayed a tall man ingesting a powdered substance nasally — and the subject was confirmed to be Broadcom cofounder and former CEO Henry Nicholas. That's according to Nicholas's attorney Susan Szabo. In order to get the clip taken off the popular video sharing site, Szabo confirmed that the man featured was her client and that the moment was filmed in his home and without his consent. The email exchange was submitted to the court by prosecuting attorneys [PDF] in order to bolster their case that Nicholas is a flight risk and a danger to himself and others, and therefore should not be granted freedom while awaiting trial. They also included an account of Nicholas crashing his Lamborghini last November, and then having his security guard take the rap. The judge eventually ruled the defendant be held under "home detention." After the jump, the email exchange between Szabo and YouTube.

Dave Elms, CEO of TheEroticReview.com, North America's largest escort-listings website, was arrested in Torrance, Calif. on June 4. Elms has a prior record including prostitution, drug, and firearms charges. This most recent arrest during a court appearance was on felony drug and weapons possession, according to a representative of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Office. Internet-based escorts are now reevaluating their efforts to bring their own case against Elms for rape and extortion based on what they say is a pattern of removing escorts' reviews from his website until they have unprotected sex with him. As for the the future of the controversial site itself, which prospective clients rely on to vet women-for-hire, an anonymous escort writes in a tip to Valleywag, "If these people think TER wasn't being watched before this they're crazy." Anyone wanting to make Elms a visit in the Los Angeles Men's Central Jail can find the details below.

Not that James Frey. Some other guy named James Frey. Still: name curse? [NYP]

Teenagers have always been complete jerks, but in the YouTube age, they have an unprecedented ability to share their jerky ways with the entire world. And then to get arrested for it. When two teenage jerks in (naturally) Florida videotaped themselves pulling a "Fire in the hole" prank—tossing a huge cup of soda through the window at a drive-through worker—and put it up on YouTube, the enterprising victim did some online detective work of her own and caught them. Now, a judge has sentenced the young punks to post another video of themselves on YouTube: "an apology that shows them facedown and handcuffed on the hood of a car." That's nice and everything, but even better would be an apology that shows them facedown after being beat up by angry fast food workers. (Florida McDonald's veteran here, thank you). Sometimes, too, teenage jerks get their comeuppance right when they try their stupid soda-tossing. Like this:

Nothing former Broadcom CEO Henry Nicholas did is particularly remarkable to anyone who's enjoyed Brett Morgen's The Kid Stays in the Picture biopic about the life and times of Robert Evans. What's remarkable is that it was a technology CEO in Orange County and not someone in the abnormally amoral entertainment industry. As cynical and jaded as we may be about the foibles of the ultrarich of the Valley, even we were surprised by some of the stunts detailed in the allegations, if only for their naïveté.

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In what may become a seminal document in the history of the dot-com era for its detailed account of excess, the recently unsealed indictment on drug charges of Broadcom founder and former CEO Henry Nicholas describes everything from spiking the drinks of fellow executives to five-figure wire transfers for "party favors" such as cocaine, methamphetamine and MDMA. The broad strokes of Nicholas' drug and prostitute habit, and the lavish grottoes he built to play with both in, have been public for a while. But the blow-by-blow account is fascinating. And these are just the drug and sex charges. Nicholas and other execs at the Southern California chip maker are also under fire from the Securities and Exchange Comission for their role in an fraudulently backdating stock options to enrich themselves and their associates. According to reports, Nicholas is currently at the posh Betty Ford Clinic.

Not even former lawmen know that trying to score sex play for pay on MySpace is a bad idea. Going to trial this week is Michael J. Curtin, a fired cop from Pennsylvania who tried to offer $1000 each to a pair of teenagers if he could suck their toes. The sad thing is, there's nothing criminal about the whole foot fetish thing: except the minors, the money, and MySpace.

Page Six has a "DARK THEORY" (or, if you prefer, a "bizarre scenario that seems possible") about why former Access Hollywood host Larry Mendte would want to read the email of Alycia Lane, his cop-slugging former co-anchor at the CBS station in Philly. Yammering coworkers say that Mendte was jealous of Lane's success, and "worked hard to take Alycia down." The clear implication is that Mendte may also have been responsible for leaking past gossip items about Lane's personal life. It certainly qualifies as a dark theory, but is it true? Nobody knows yet, so here's an anonymous coworker's gratuitous quote about Mendte's wife: "She's an older version of Alycia, which I find a little freaky." [P6]

Good news for Second Life! Israeli legislator Zahava Gal-On has been so taken in by the illusion of sex offered in fake online worlds that she's proposing mandatory five-year jail terms for the operators of "virtual brothels" — websites "offering women for sale," she says. If only! Sites like Craigslist, The Eros Guide, MyRedBook, and The Erotic Review advertise real sex for hire, but law enforcers prefer to log on to track down working girls, rather than take the sites offline for pimping. If Gal-On took a moment to understand the economics of virtual vajayjay, she'd see her concerns were misplaced.

28 little shits who had a beer blast in Robert Frost's former home in Vermont, doing more than $10,000 worth of damage (including urine stains), have to take classes about the poet as part of their sentences. [AP]

Guess who's on the cover of the new issue of Steppin' Out, the odd little celebrity magazine produced by Jersey gossip gadfly and Page Six enemy Chaunce Hayden? It's recently arrested former child star Tatum O'Neal! The interview obviously happened before her arrest, making this by far the most fortuitous coincidence of Chaunce Hayden's career. There are several questions about drug use in the interview, because that's what people always talk about with Tatum O'Neal. But she told Chaunce at the time that she felt "good, comfortable, and clear":

Music superstar R. Kelly's criminal trial for taping himself having sex with an underage girl has been so bland and subdued, we've just been waiting for a newsworthy reason to cover it. And now we have it: there's a legal issue in the case that affects a member of the media in some way! Why, this is almost as exciting as a music superstar's kinky child sex tape scandal!

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The New York Post is tough on crime. Especially celebrity crime. They take gleeful pleasure (as we all do!) in cataloging the excesses and trashy doings of the drug-addicted and famous. Yesterday's breathless report on the arrest of poor former child star Tatum O'Neal went into embarrassing detail of her arrest for purchasing crack cocaine ("I'm researching a part," a "source" told the Post). But today's front page? And accompanying exclusive report from brittle columnist Andrea Peyser? A sympathetic tale of a troubled woman just doing her best to stay clean. The lead: "TATUM is saved!" Who the hell is O'Neal's publicist, Obi-Wan Kenobi? (Or, uh, Howard Rubenstein?) Drug-addicted celebrities! You may wonder how to garner such friendly treatment in the Post after your next drug deal gone bad! We have some suggestions: