John Rigas picked his sons to help him run Adelphia Communications Corp., the company that established him as a folksy, small-town businessman who built a sprawling cable company from scratch.

It was those family ties that directed that all Adelphia purchases of office furniture, totaling $12.4 million in 2001, be done at a store in Olean, Eleni Interiors, that is owned by John Rigas.

NEW YORK -- Defense lawyers portrayed Adelphia Communications Corp. founder John Rigas and his two sons as men so dedicated to their small Pennsylvania town that they wanted to build it up with a ...

The specter of additional criminal charges against the Rigases comes two weeks after John J. Rigas, Adelphia's 77-year-old patriarch, two of his sons and two other former company executives were ...

Rigas, 82, recently agreed to tell his side of the story about the sequence of events that led to the collapse of the business he and his family built. It is John Rigas' version of events.

John Rigas, his sons Timothy and Michael, and a fourth executive, ... Prosecutors allege that the family siphoned off $100 million to fund personal extravagances, ...

Think Rigas and visions of hockey pucks may slide into mind. Or cable television. Or long-distance phone service. Probably not movies, though, those much-enjoyed celluloid trips to other worlds. But ...

At trial, prosecutors said the Rigas family used the company as their personal piggy bank, withdrawing millions of dollars to finance everything from 100 pairs of bedroom slippers for Timothy Rigas to ...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Bankrupt Adelphia Communications Corp. will receive $1.5 billion in cable television systems and other assets from founder John Rigas and family members and will pay the government ...

John J. Rigas, whose high-flying success as the founder of Adelphia Cable ended in disgrace and prison over shareholder fraud, died today in Coudersport, Pa. He was 96 and his death was confirmed ...