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Article: Adelphia Communications, Family Owners at Crossroads.
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- The Buffalo News (Buffalo, NY)
- Article date:
- April 15, 2002
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Byline: Fred O. Williams
Apr. 15--John J. Rigas always was a puzzle.
Talking to the diminutive, soft-voiced man, it's easy to forget that he's the multimillionaire owner of a National Hockey League team.
He radiates the small-town values of his home in Coudersport, Pa., but he also heads a $3 billion cable television company -- which he built with aggressive borrowing.
Now there's another contradiction.
His company, which is too upright to carry adult channels, is being accused of duping stockholders with Enron-style accounting tricks.
Which is the real John Rigas? A straight-arrow businessman, or one who stepped ...