Law Blog readers, please welcome Brendan Sullivan to the credit crunch's premier corporate crime prosecution. For those unfamiliar with the Williams & Connolly litigator, Sullivan repped Oliver North in the Iran-Contra scandal and has recently taken on the representation of Broadcom co-founder Henry Nicholas in his securities and narcotics case. [...]
Enron Field is no more. In the not too distant future, legions of fans of the New York Metropolitans (along with guys working at auto-body shops in Queens) will look to the sky and see the words "Citi Field" on the new Mets ballpark, to be opened next year. Citigroup [...]
A federal judge has refused to dismiss charges of conspiracy and tax evasion against the imprisoned founder of Adelphia Communications Corp. and his son, ruling the charges don't amount to double jeopardy. The charges Adelphia founder John Rigas and his son,[...]
USA Today |
June 25th, 2008 |
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A U.S. judge reduced the prison sentences of Adelphia founder John Rigas and his son Timothy after an appeals court threw out [...]
Adelphia founder John Rigas and his son Timothy each had three years cut from their fraud sentences after one of the guilty findings was overturned. They are now sentenced to 12 years and 17 years, respectively.[...]
Adelphia founder John Rigas and his son Timothy each had three years cut from their fraud sentences after one of the guilty findings was overturned. They are now sentenced to 12 years and 17 years, respectively.[...]
We've visited the topic of the perp walk before, but we thought that given the former Bear Stearns hedge fund managers being forced to do the walk earlier today, it was high time to revisit the issue. Why, we asked ourselves after watching the clips, does this ritual take place, [...]
A federal judge dismissed certain claims by Adelphia creditors who sought $4 billion from commercial banks and investment firms, ruling that the cable operator's bankruptcy plan already had paid creditors what they were owed.[...]
GigaOM |
June 6th, 2008 |
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Entertainment is vital to Los Angeles, especially video entertainment. So it has to be embarrassing for Time Warner Cable to be told by the city, in a lawsuit, that its cable TV service sucks. Nobody likes to be told this sort of thing. But looking past the public relations hit, [...]
A lawyer for Adelphia founder John Rigas and his son, Timothy, argued yesterday that the court should re-evaluate their prison sentences since an appeals court overturned part of their convictions last year. The pair, convicted by a jury in 2004 of[...]
TechCrunch |
April 29th, 2008 |
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In March we wrote a preliminary list of the people Microsoft will propose as the alternate board of directors in the event their acquisition efforts go hostile. The original list (we now believe Tom Freston was incorrect and has been removed) John Chapple - CEO, Nextel Partners Edward H. Meyer [...]
Wired |
April 29th, 2008 |
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News from Portfolio.com Also on Portfolio Why Airline Mergers Don't Fly Tech Observer: Amazon Selling Music on GTA IV Abandoned Homes: The Myth of the Walk Aways Subscribe to Portfolio magazine Microsoft has been radio silent since Yahoo's doomsday clock struck midnight last weekend. No chariots-cum-pumpkins, no big bombs—just dead [...]
And, as BoomTown wrote yesterday, so the war of attrition for Yahoo begins. Not with a bang, but a whimper. And so much whine, I am considering serving up a nice plate of cheese to all players. But while the first moves by Microsoft, which is seeking to takeover Yahoo, [...]
BizJournals |
April 9th, 2008 |
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The empty Adelphia Communications Corp. headquarters building in Coudersport, Pa., finally has a new owner.[...]
Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) had a rough 2007—its stock ended about 30 percent off its highs—but its top executives all received bonuses above the targets that were set for them when the year started. Ex-CEO and Chairman Richard Parsons received $7.5 million in bonuses for the year, 36 percent higher [...]
Gizmodo |
March 26th, 2008 |
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Vuze/Azureus actually operates a legit video delivery business using torrent, so they've been among the most vocal opponents to ISPs throttling torrents. To help build their case and create a detailed log of every ISP that scrambles torrents, along with their particular poison—short-circuiting uploads or general bandwidth caps, for instance—they've [...]
