➀ A shoe-shine boy who introduced 'Texas Hot' to Wellsville, New York, and participated in the liberation of Dachau in WWII became the biggest US cable TV provider outside Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Cleveland, and South Florida. ➁ He and his two brothers took $3.1 billion in unrecorded loans from the company for personal use and were charged with looting the company. ➂ He was sentenced to 15 years in jail. Moral: All that glitters is not gold.