Adelphia: The Family That Stole a Cable Empire

John Rigas built Adelphia Communications over fifty years from a single cable franchise into one of America's largest companies. Then it emerged that he and his sons had been treating it as a personal bank account — two point three billion dollars borrowed, a golf course built, a town that had built its economy around a family now watching that family led away in handcuffs.This episode of Dark Money: True Crime Finance goes inside Adelphia — the family fraud that destroyed a cable empire, sent a seventy-eight year old founder to federal prison, and became one of the defining corporate scandals of the summer of two thousand and two.Subscribe to Dark Money: True Crime Finance for new episodes daily