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Broadcom Scandal Might Affect Two Colleges

July 22, 2008 05:46 PM ET | Alison Go | Permanent Link | Print

University of California officials are deciding what to do with the names of UCLA and UC-Irvine's engineering schools, both named for Broadcom founder Henry Samueli, who recently pleaded guilty to lying to the Securities and Exchange Commission about the manipulation of $2.2 billion in stock options, the Daily Bruin reports. UC has launched a review of the two engineering schools' names and could strip Samueli's name from both.

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