Via the San Diego Union Tribune:

Adelphia founder's son sentenced

March 4, 2006
San Diego Union Tribune

Michael Rigas, son of Adelphia Communications Corp. founder John Rigas, was sentenced to 10 months home confinement by a judge who said he was “close to being a pawn” in a family-run cable television business portrayed as a house of fraud.

The 52-year-old Rigas was sentenced in U.S. District Court in Manhattan after pleading guilty to a charge of making a false entry in a company record, eliminating the need for his retrial on much more serious securities fraud and bank fraud charges.

The judge said he had no doubt that Michael Rigas's misconduct “pales in comparison to that of his father and brother.” Last year, John Rigas and another son, Timothy, were sentenced after they were convicted of using the company's funds like a bank teller machine as they hid more than $2 billion in company debt.

The original article appears here. For more on the sentencing of the other Rigas boys, click here.

-- MDT