Adelphia Case Summary The Allegations: Prosecutors say members of the cable company’s founding family and two former executives looted the firm "on a massive scale‚" spending company funds on personal expenses‚ such as a $12.8 million golf course. The firm has been accused of hiding business relationships between Adelphia and entities tied to the founders and for inflating its financial results. Who’s Who: • John J. Rigas‚ Adelphia’s founder • Timothy Rigas‚ former CFO • Michael Rigas‚
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Trident University Case 1- The Adelphia Scandal ETH501: Business Ethics Dr. Bonnie Adams 4/13/2014 Introduction Aldelphia Communications Corporation was founded in 1952 by John Rigas and two partners. Rigas began to grow the business and by July 1‚ 1986 Adelphia was ready to go public. The company quickly grew into the sixth largest cable company in the United States. Its annual revenue exceeded $2.9 billion with offices located in 32 states and Puerto Rico (Barlup‚ Hanne & Stuart‚ 2009). With
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The Adelphia Scandal The Dawn of Adelphia Adelphia was founded in 1952 by John Rigas and his brother Gus Rigas in Coudersport‚ Pennsylvania with the purchase of their first cable franchise for $300. After 20 years‚ the Rigas brothers incorporated their company under the name Adelphia which derived its name from a Greek word which means brothers‚ an apt corporate title for a business that would employ generations of the Rigas family. Adelphia was a cable television company and built its success
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Adelphia Cable Bruce Dawson Principles of Management Mgmt.230 "Adelphia is one of the nation’s leading cable companies with more than 5.3 million residential customers nationwide. In addition to cable entertainment Adelphia offers digital cable‚ high-speed internet access‚ long distance telephone service‚ and home security" (Adelphia). The leadership of this company currently consists of 18 officers. One officer for each of the five regions Adelphia covers. One officer in each of the
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Adelphia Communications Scandal Adelphia Communications was the nation’s 6th largest cable company and became yet another corporation involved in a scandal that resulted in their downfall. Adelphia’s services included high speed cable internet service‚ cable TV service‚ and long distance phone service. Adelphia had more than five million subscribers to these services. The scandal consisted of the Rigas family‚ the family that founded the company‚ and two other executives fraudulently excluding over
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takes a vacation‚ manager doing subordinate level work Financial Statement Fraud: Financial statement fraud is the most costly type of fraud committed at companies. Although financial statement fraud is present in only about 10% of internal fraud cases‚ the median cost of
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The Adelphia Scandal In 1952‚ John Rigas purchased his own cable company. By the late 1990’s‚ he had turned it into the sixth largest cable company in the United States with 5.6 million customers. The business was always run as a family style business which led to fraudulent acts among family members and upper level executives. The family has been accused of stealing $3.1 billion from Adelphia and is now facing criminal charges. Adelphia was forced to file chapter 11 bankruptcy and as of April
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Categorical Imperative Applied to the Adelphia Communications Scandal In July of 2002‚ five officials of the Adelphia cable-television company were arrested on the charge of gross corporate fraud conducted by members of the Rigas family. The events which transpired during the Adelphia scandal were some of the most egregious to date with an estimated "$100 million‚ hiding more than $2 billion in debt the family incured‚ and lying to the public about Adelphia ’s operations and financial condition
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Name: University: Course: Tutor: Date: Communication in the Workplace Introduction Communication is a vital process in organizations and companies in today’s world. It has been defined as an activity that entails transmitting information through interexchange of views or messages by behavior‚ signals‚ writing‚ visuals‚ and speech. The process of communication requires a sender‚ the message to be sent‚ and a receiver. However‚ it is mandatory for the receiver to be aware of the sender’s intention
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Running head: EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATION A CASE STUDY Effective communication a case study David Vigh University of Phoenix Public Relations MKT438 Douglas Bottomley Jun 20‚ 2006 Abstract This paper evaluated the communication efforts used to communicate the tragedy on December 2 1984 in Bhopal India when a UCC plant there leaked Liquefied Methyl Isocyanides which led to the death of between 1‚700 and 4‚000 people. The discussion will cover the history of the accident and discuss ways
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