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Adelphia case
On June 20, 2005, “John Rigas, the 80-year old founder of Adelphia Communications Corp.,
was . sentenced to 15 years in prison and his son Timothy, the ex-finance chief, got 20 years for
looting the company and lying about its finances.”1 These were the largest sentences handed
out to CEOs and CFOs after the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) and before the sentencing of
Bernard J. Ebbers, CEO of WorldCom, and Dennis Kozlowski, CEO of Tyco, and before the trial
of Richard Scrushy, CEO of HealthSouth.
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