The Livent trial
John Gray covers the fraud trial of Garth Drabinsky and Myron Gottlieb
In my original blog post about Diane Winkfein, I speculated that, despite having a 23-year working relationship with Garth Drabinsky, the testimony of the former Livent controller may have actually done more damage to Myron Gottlieb. After all, Winkfein had more contact with Gottlieb and told the court about two ...
Will the guilt or innocence of Livent founders Garth Drabinsky and Myron Gottlieb rely on whether Diane Winkfein recalls whether a scribbled notation on a financial document was written on April 23, 1998 or the next day? The answer appears to be…yes. That date is vital to the defence, judging ...
Of all the witnesses who are scheduled to testify in the criminal fraud trial of Livent founders Garth Drabinsky and Myron Gottlieb, you would think that that the testimony of Diane Winkfein, a junior accountant at Livent, would inflict the least amount of damage. After all, despite having a 23-year-long ...
While the criminal fraud proceedings against Garth Drabinsky and Myron Gottlieb have taken a short break this week, the pair were dealt a major blow, earlier today, in their civil litigation with Livent investors. The Ontario Court of Appeal has upheld a lower court ruling ordering the pair to pay ...
Diane Winkfein worked with Garth Drabinsky for more than 23 years. In 1975, she joined Drabinsky’s old law firm as a bookkeeper and followed the charismatic entrepreneur through just about all of his endeavours. In 1982, she moved with Drabinsky to Cineplex Odeon, and also worked with him at his ...
As if there weren’t already enough documents in the criminal fraud trial of Livent founders Garth Drabinsky and Myron Gottlieb, earlier today defence lawyers produced one that they created themselves. You can’t really blame them. The document was meant to help speed up the cross examination of former Livent controller ...
There is an odd connection between the ongoing Livent criminal fraud trial and the brewing controversy over the New Yorker magazine cover depicting presumptive Democratic nominee Barack Obama as a Muslim giving his wife a “terrorist fist-jab.” The controversial cover was produced by noted illustrator Barry Blitt, a former student ...
Here’s an interesting legal question for you: If you allegedly committed a fraud, but there was a legal way for you to achieve the same ends, did you still commit a crime? I don’t know the answer, but the question is something defence lawyers representing Livent founders Garth Drabinsky ...
For the first time since the criminal fraud trial of Garth Drabinsky and Myron Gottlieb began in May, lawyers managed to complete the entire testimony and cross-examination of a witness in a single day. But even then, defence lawyers spent considerable time quizzing Raymond Cheong, Livent’s former manager of information ...
We’ve all been waiting for this moment in the criminal fraud trial of Garth Drabinsky and Myron Gottlieb. The moment when courtroom observers would be overwhelmed by the minutiae of the accounting, finding ourselves floating in the sea of complicated and impenetrable accounting transactions that culminated in the widespread alleged ...
