The evidence against Livent founders Garth Drabinsky and Myron Gottlieb is “overwhelming” and the defence’s contention that the two executives are the victims of an elaborate frame-up is “preposterous,” prosecutors said in their final oral argument presented in court today.

The last major prosecution witness of the criminal fraud trial of Garth Drabinsky and Myron Gottlieb brought us back to where we started five months ago.

For the past two weeks, testimony at the criminal fraud trial of Garth Drabinsky and Myron Gottlieb has focused almost exclusively on the last quarter of 1998 as defence lawyers grilled former Livent controller Chris Craib. But today, prosecutors brought the trial back to the origins of Livent and the ...

If they ever make a movie about the alleged fraud that destroyed Livent they may cast Kevin Spacey to play the role of Chris Craib, the former controller at Livent who testified today at the criminal fraud trial of Garth Drabinsky and Myron Gottlieb.