In April of 2014, Gurbaksh Chahal was fired as the CEO of the tech company RadiumOne, amid fallout from a domestic violence case. Chahal had managed to escape felony charges despite being caught on camera striking his girlfriend over 100 times, according to prosecutors. But before Chahal was axed, a new Wall Street Journal report shows, power players in Silicon Valley were working overtime to protect him and his company’s upcoming IPO.
