John Rigas made his ownership of the Sabres official in 2000 after operating the franchise under a memorandum of understanding since 1998. But since then, the founder and chairman of cable television ...

Adelphia Communications Corp. took investors by surprise Wednesday when the nation’s sixth-largest cable operator acknowledged that it has $2.3 billion in debt not included on its balance sheet. The ...

His testimony was potentially some of the most damaging so far to the defense during the fraud trial of John Rigas and two of his sons. Adelphia moved from Pennsylvania to Greenwood Village, Colo., ...

Worried that the financial problems at Adelphia Communications Corp. are hurting the cable operator’s 250,000 local customers, City Atty. Rocky J. Delgadillo threatened Wednesday to revoke the company ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - John Rigas, the Adelphia Communications Corp founder who was convicted for participating in a fraud that led to the cable company's collapse, is dying of cancer and should be ...

Adelphia Communications Corp. founder John Rigas and his son Timothy were convicted Thursday of conspiracy, bank fraud and securities fraud for looting the cable company and duping its investors. The ...

NEW YORK – Adelphia Communications Corp. (ADELQ) asked a U.S. bankruptcy court to order its founding Rigas family to pay back $3.23 billion it says the family owes the company, court papers show. The ...

NEW YORK — Time Warner and Comcast on Thursday won their $17.6 billion joint bid to buy bankrupt cabler Adelphia, with Time Warner Cable poised to pick up Adelphia’s Los Angeles customers and become ...

COUDERSPORT, Pa. -- Former Adelphia chairman John Rigas, accused of bilking investors of billions, never took the stand in his own defense when he was tried — and convicted — of securities fraud in ...

Business News Adelphia founder gets 15-year term; son gets 20 John Rigas, who turned a $300 investment a half-century ago into cable behemoth Adelphia Communications Corp., was sentenced to 15 years ...