Most long-term readers will recognize the name Rigas. Rigas family members looted Adelphia Communications Corporation. Those members were prosecuted for their misdeeds. I have previously covered some of the issues in those Rigas prosecutions here.
After being convicted of financial crimes related to their looting of Adelphia, the Rigases were prosecuted for tax crimes. By Memorandum and Order dated June 14, 2011, the District Court rejected the Rigases' claims in the tax prosecutions the their Fifth and Sixth Amendment rights had been violated by the Government's actions in putting pressure on Adelphia to fire the Rigases before the first prosecution. United States v. Rigas, 2011 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 66147 (MD PA 2011). The Rigases sought support in the Stein case where the Court dismissed 13 defendants for prosecutorial abuse of forcing KPMG to withdraw attorney fee support. See United States v. Stein, 435 F. Supp. 2d. 330 (S.D.N.Y. 2006), eventually affirmed United States v. Stein, 541 F.3d 130 (2d Cir. 2008). The Court rejected the Rigases' claims because the constitutional violations, if they occurred, occurred prior to the first prosecution wheter the claims should have been but were not presented.
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