Why R. Kelly may be playing on Garth Drabinsky's iPod. Nearly 10 months after their trial for criminal fraud began, Livent founders Garth Drabinsky and Myron Gottlieb will finally learn their fate this Wednesday. The pair will return to a Toronto courtroom to hear if Justice Mary Lou Benotto thinks prosecutors ...

The long awaited verdict in the criminal fraud trial of Livent founders Garth Drabinsky and Myron Gottlieb has been delayed one day and is now scheduled to be delivered on March 25. Justice Mary Lou Benotto, who is overseeing the trial without a jury, had told lawyers she would deliver ...

Garth Drabinsky and Myron Gottlieb got more bad news this morning as the Supreme Court of Canada announced it would not hear their appeal of a previous court decision ordering the pair to pay $36.6 million to former Livent note-holders. “We were always optimistic that we would get this result, ...

Garth Drabinsky and Myron Gottlieb will learn their fate on March 24 - the day Justice Mary Lou Benotto delivers her verdict in the criminal fraud trial of the two Livent founders. Benotto has overseen the trial - which began in May last year - without a jury.

Efforts by Livent founder Myron Gottlieb to pin the blame for a massive accounting fraud at the company on an elaborate conspiracy by lawyers, accountants and former company employees was dealt a legal blow earlier this week. For the second time, an Ontario court has dismissed a lawsuit filed by ...

It’s over. The criminal fraud trial of Garth Drabinsky and Myron Gottlieb has finally drawn to a close. It’s been more than 18 years since the first hint of fraud allegedly occurred at Livent, 10 years since company founders Garth Drabinsky and Myron Gottlieb were suspended from the company after ...

it is not until the conclusion of Greenspan's argument that he even begins to address the questions raised in the first fraud count - that Drabinsky and Gottlieb manipulated Livent's financials prior to the company's initial public offering.The charges stem from a scheme concocted by Gottlieb where Livent's construction suppliers ...

At last we are getting into some discussion of the management executive summaries that clearly showed Livent was producing millions in losses, but reporting tens of millions in profits to shareholders and regulators. But rather than showing clear-cut evidence of fraud, those summaries are open to interpretation, the defence argues. ...

Ah, here we go - the handwriting. There is perhaps no more compelling evidence that at Drabinsky knew about the fraud then the numerous incriminating documents with his handwriting on them. How do we know it is Drabinsky's handwriting, well the witnesses identified it. But who they heck are they ...

I'm going to skip the legal arguments regarding how much weight the judge should give to the evidence of admitted accomplices and other technical arguments. Instead, lets dive into what the defence says about the documents in this case.