Billionaire Henry Nicholas, founder of broadcom, has checked into the Betty Ford Center for alcohol rehabilitation, the Orange County Register reports. He's funded two crime-themed initiatives this year: the victims rights' measure (currently paying $2 a sig on the street) and an anti-gang measure. In 2004, Nicholas and Gov. Schwarzenegger led an expensive last-minute campaign to defeat Prop 66, a measure to change the state's three strikes law. The measure lost more than 20 points in the polls in the last 10 days.