Sitrick & Co. does PR for Freedom Communications, Inc.

Mike Sitrick is also the PR guy for Dr. Henry Nicholas III, the former Broadcom exec facing multiple federal criminal charges in connection with alleged stock options fraud and drug offenses in U.S. District Court in Santa Ana.

The Orange County Register is owned by Freedom and is covering Nicholas' criminal case.

Here's the Vanity Fair piece titled "Dr. Nicholas and Mr. Hyde":

Now Nicholas, who in the past couldn't be silenced (he once proudly announced, "I am a media-relations nightmare!," and he was), has been shut down by his lawyers. He would not comment for this story.

Indeed.