10 High Profile White Collar Criminals and Their Crime Cases in America

7 John Rigas

Prison sentence: 15 years

John Rigas was the co-founder of Adelphia Communications, one of the largest cable TV companies in the US. He, along with his two sons, managed to hide $2.3 billion worth of debt and false earnings. He then went ahead to spend millions of dollars worth of corporate funding in personal expenses. In 2003 he was convicted of fraud and brought to justice.