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U.S. v. RIGAS

Docket Nos. 08-3485-cr (L), 08-3500-cr (CON), 08-3592-cr (CON), 08-3597-cr (CON).

583 F.3d 108 (2009)

UNITED STATES of America, Appellee, v. John J. RIGAS and Timothy J. Rigas, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided: October 5, 2009.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stephen R. McAllister, Thompson Ramsdell & Qualseth, P.A., Lawrence, KS (Neal K. Katyal, Morgan Legal Consulting, Washington, D.C., and Lawrence G. McMichael, Dilworth Paxson, LLP, Philadelphia, PA, on the brief), for Defendants-Appellants.

William F. Johnson, Assistant United States Attorney (Michael J. Garcia, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Katherine Polk Failla, Assistant United States Attorney, on the brief), United States Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York, New York, NY, for Appellee.

Douglas A. Berman, Stephanos Bibas, Marc Miller, Michael O'Hear, Mark Osler, Sandra Guerra Thompson, Amicus Curiae in support of Defendants-Appellants.

Before: FEINBERG, WINTER, and CABRANES, Circuit Judges.

JOSÉ A. CABRANES, Circuit Judge:

We consider several challenges to the trial and sentencing of John J. Rigas, the former CEO of Adelphia Communications Corp. ("Adelphia"), and his son Timothy J. Rigas, Adelphia's former CFO (together, the "Rigases"), including the Rigases' claims that their sentences were procedurally and substantively unreasonable.

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The history of massive corporate fraud that forms the background of these proceedings...

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