Adelphia Communications Corporation

Raj Rajaratnam gets 11 years, not 24; illness revealed in court

2011-10-13 16:34:26

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A murky high-def picture

2008-05-27 00:00:00

Pity the Los Angeles residents who lug home pricey high-definition television sets only to find that most of their shows don't look much better. The entertainment capital of the world ranks last among the five biggest U.S. markets in the number of high-...

Adelphia's Explicit Porn

2005-02-02 00:00:00

Porn is suddenly sexy to a cable TV company once considered the industry prude. Adelphia Communications Corp. has quietly become the nation's only leading cable operator to offer the most explicit category of hard-core porn. Come Friday, triple-X-rated...

Time Warner Settles Fraud Charges for $500 Million

2004-12-15 13:27:00

Time Warner today agreed to pay more than $500 million to settle two government fraud investigations into its America Online operation in a move that resolves a major legal and financial uncertainty which has loomed over the media giant. A resolution...

Macdonald promoted to CFO at Starz: Exec has been with pay cabler since 2006

2012-07-09 21:45:12

Starz has bumped Scott Macdonald to chief financial officer from his previous title of exec VP of finance, accounting and treasurer. Macdonald, based at the net's Englewood, Colo., headquarters, has been with the pay cabler since 2006, after arriving from...

On July 8, 1919, President Woodrow Wilson returned from the Versailles Peace Conference

2009-07-07 21:01:00

Today is Wednesday, July 8, the 189th day of 2009. There are 176 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On July 8, 1919, President Woodrow Wilson received a tumultuous welcome in New York City after his return from the Versailles Peace...

Bernard Madoff Becomes Prisoner 61727-054

2009-07-14 09:02:00

He is now prisoner number 61727-054. Disgraced financier Bernard Madoff has arrived at a federal prison in Butner, North Carolina, to start serving a 150-year sentence. Federal Bureau of Prisons spokeswoman Linda Thomas says Madoff arrived at the Butner...

For family business, control can be sticky

2007-09-02 00:00:00

Family businesses are never a piece of cake. But at their worst they are like a very stale piece of holiday fruitcake. For example, John and Timothy Rigas recently entered federal prison in North Carolina to begin their respective 15- and 20-year terms....

U.S. to seek life term for Ebbers, ex-CEO of WorldCom

2005-06-29 00:00:00

NEW YORK - Federal prosecutors want former WorldCom boss Bernard J. Ebbers to go to prison for the rest of his life, and have urged a federal judge to brush off his pleas for leniency. In court papers made public yesterday, the government encouraged U.S....

WorldCom ex-CEO sentenced for fraud

2005-07-14 00:00:00

NEW YORK - From humble roots as a milkman and motel owner, Bernard J. Ebbers built a small telecommunications company into an industry giant - becoming a symbol of what a brash entrepreneur could do in the technology boom of the late 1990s. Yesterday,...

Madoff headed to hellish jail, SEC still in doghouse

2009-03-12 16:24:11

Disgraced financier Bernard Madoff enters a federal court in New York City on March 12, 2009. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images) by Frank James Physicians get to bury their mistakes, it's said. And federal regulators get to see theirs......

WorldCom heads toward bankruptcy amid outrage

2002-06-27 00:00:00

WorldCom Inc. teetered yesterday toward what would be the largest bankruptcy in U.S. history after shocking Wall Street -- and the White House -- with yet another corporate scandal: $3.8 billion in expenses hidden from investors. U.S. stocks plunged --...

of hundreds of millions dollars. The company's former chief financial officer, he was found guilty in 2004 of one count of conspiracy, 15 counts of securities fraud and two counts of bank fraud.

2011-06-25 22:00:00

It took 50 years for John Rigas to build Adelphia into the nation's sixth largest cable company. The end came a lot more quickly. It filed for Chapter 11 in June 2002, a month before Rigas and two sons were indicted on charges of "looting" the company to the tune of $100 million while hiding $2.

2011-06-04 22:00:00

John Rigas, founder and former CEO of cable television giant Adelphia Communications, leaves U.S. District Court in Manhattan after his conviction.

2004-07-08 00:00:00