Ronald Leon Rakow
Ronald Leon Rakow or Ron Rakow was the head of now defunct Grateful Dead Records and manager of The Grateful Dead.
Rakow allegedly embezzled $225,000 from the band. When confronted by band members Phil Lesh and Jerry Garcia, Rakow allegedly told them to go "fuck themselves"; he had cut himself a check for "what he was owed" and then left.
On April 11, 2007, Rakow was sentenced to five years in federal prison for tax evasion of $2.2 million since 1985. ' On December 1, 2011, Rakow was released from prison.
