WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday refused to hear an appeal from John and Timothy Rigas, the father and son who were convicted of fraud after the cable television company they built collapsed into bankruptcy.

The Rigases were prosecuted after Adelphia Communications collapsed in 2002 following the company's announcement that it had more than $2 billion in liabilities it had not previously reported. Adelphia was the country's fifth-largest cable TV company.

At trial, the government said John Rigas, who started the company with a $300 investment, used its financial ledger like a personal piggy bank, paying for expenses as small as massages and withdrawing $100,000 from the company whenever he wished.

The family was accused of buying a Gulfstream III jet from the king of Jordan and using it as a taxi service for trips to New York City and to see their Buffalo Sabres hockey team.

Prosecutors said the family spent lavishly on itself, ordering 100 pairs of slippers for Timothy Rigas and using more than $3 million to produce a film by John Rigas' daughter.

The Rigases in their appeal said the government should have turned over to them notes taken during prosecutorial interviews with some witnesses.