Over the past six months, prosecutors in the criminal fraud trial of Livent founders Garth Drabinsky and Myron Gottlieb have spent most of their time examining witnesses about the volumes of documentary evidence at the heart of the case. Most of the documents are dry financial statements; often inscrutable printouts ...
Prosecutors in the criminal fraud trial of Garth Drabinsky and Myron Gottlieb were supposed to wrap up their case Tuesday afternoon. But as I approached the courthouse I saw a bad omen – defence lawyer Brian Greenspan parking his sleek black Jaguar on a street near the courthouse where cars ...
Defence lawyers in the criminal fraud trial of Garth Drabinsky and Myron Gottlieb kept up their assault on the integrity of the mountains of documents that prosecutors insist prove the men masterminded one of the most infamous accounting frauds in Canadian history. The tools used to undermine the integrity ...
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.
There has been plenty of dramatic testimony over the past five months at the criminal fraud trial of Garth Drabinsky and Myron Gottlieb. As if testimony about the widespread fraud that eventually destroyed the high-profile theatre company wasn’t exciting enough, there has been testimony about volatile, and profanity laced, management meetings, ...
Prosecutors at the criminal fraud trial of Livent founders Garth Drabinsky and Myron Gottlieb were left scrambling this morning when their key witness did not show up. When proceedings began at 10 a.m. this morning, former Livent controller Chris Craib was nowhere to be seen. Calls to his home and ...
The goal of defence lawyers in their cross examination of Chris Craib has been two-fold. First, destroy the credibility of the former Livent controller who testified that he witnessed Garth Drabinsky openly discuss plans to manipulate the company’s financial results at a meeting in April 1998. Second, convince the judge ...
Of all the witnesses who have testified so far at the criminal fraud trial of Garth Drabinsky and Myron Gottlieb, Tony Fiorino has had the least amount of exposure to the Livent founders. On the witness stand, Fiorino could only testify about a single experience he had with Myron Gottlieb ...
At the height of its success, Livent founders Garth Drabinsky and Myron Gottlieb would brag about how their company was unique in the annals of the entertainment business. They were right. There were no other publicly-traded companies producing the kind of spectacular live theatre events that Livent was known for. ...
During the cross examination of Peter Kofman yesterday, lawyers for both Garth Drabinsky and Myron Gottlieb spent a considerable amount of time asking the former Livent engineer if he was aware of the term "papering the house." The term refers to the practice of theatre — or any other live ...
