May
21
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. ...
A loud crash rang out in the courtroom during one of the many objections lawyers for Garth Drabinsky and Myron Gottlieb made during prosecutor's opening examination of Livent's former senior vice president of finance, Gordon Eckstein. The noise came as Eddie Greenspan — who is acting on behalf of Drabinsky ...
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 ...
Myron Gottlieb was not the architect of the frauds that ultimately destroyed Livent as prosecutors allege, but rather was instrumental in bringing a fraudulent ticket purchasing scheme to an end, a Toronto court heard today. Gottlieb was upset when Peter Kofman — an engineer who worked on Livent's theatre projects ...
Kofman found himself ensnared in Livent's so-called bogus billing schemes again in 1997 when the theatre company allegedly charged thousands of dollars of theatre tickets to Kofman's American Express credit card without his knowledge. Kofman testified that he found out about the charges when he tried to use his credit ...
