ADELPHIA COMMUNICATIONS SCANDAL REVEALED ________________________________________ The Adelphia Communications Scandal Created Controversy. The Fraudster Got Sympathy From the Judge and Received a Light Sentence for Stealing From Old Folks. ________________________________________ The Adelphia Communications scandal broke in 2002 when a footnote in a routine quarterly earnings statement revealed that the Rigas family had borrowed more than $2 billion from the company. But they didn’t pay it back
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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 Communications Corporation Scandal Unethical Business Practices Research Assignment Abstract Historically‚ ethical values‚ relating to professional business practice‚ continually raises controversy for business owners/founders‚ shareholders and consumers. Ethical standards perpetually change because personal and societal values evolve‚ and adapt accordingly to modern day lifestyle. It is as essential to adhere to your profession’s ethics‚ as it is to denounce questionable
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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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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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Firstname Lastname Instructor’s Name Course Number 21 July 2015 Adelphia Communications Adelphia is the 6th biggest cable television provider in the United States and‚ with various subsidiaries‚ gives services of cable television and local telephone service to customers in 32 states and Puerto Rico. Adelphia means "brothers" in Greek. It used to be one of America ’s largest cable companies. John Rigas established the company and served as CEO and chairman. John ’s son Tim was CFO‚ and Tim ’s brothers
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Adelphia Communications Corporation Adelphia Communications Corporation was one of the largest cable and internet providers in America prior to its declaration of bankruptcy in 2002 due to internal corruption. The executive officers of Adelphia inflated the stock price of the company by falsifying their financial records as well as funneling their debts into other smaller firms so that the large amounts of debt did not show on their financial reports. This lead investors to believe the company
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Rigas‚ the son of Greek immigrants‚ founded the company that would grow and become Adelphia Communications Corporation in Coudersport‚ Pennsylvania‚ when he purchased a $300 license to wire Coudersport for cable television services. In 1972‚ he and his brother‚ Gus‚ created Adelphia Communications Corporation. Adelphia is Greek for “Brothers”; this signifies their Greek heritage as a corporation run by brothers. Adelphia has always been a “family” business. Over the decades as the cable industry began
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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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1.)Essentials of Committing Fraud: Position Equals Power The amount of money lost to an internal corporate fraud is most significantly influenced by the perpetrator’s position in the organization. When we look at various characteristics of those committing fraud‚ this makes sense‚ because access creates opportunity. Typically‚ the higher a person moves in a company‚ the greater access she or he is granted to information‚ assets‚ data‚ and people. That creates more opportunities to commit fraud
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