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 ...
In some ways, attending the criminal fraud trial of Garth Drabinsky and Myron Gottlieb these days feels like watching the last Lord of the Rings. Like the movie, the case is long and features epic battles between two formidable opponents And like the end of the last movie, just when ...
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 case against Garth Drabinsky and Myron Gottlieb consists basically of two parts: first, there are the witnesses who have some personal knowledge of the alleged fraud that occurred at the once successful live theatre company; and then there are the thousands of documents that painstakingly lay out how ...
More than five months after it began, prosecutors in the criminal fraud trial of Garth Drabinsky and Myron
Gottlieb completed questioning of their fourteenth and final witness earlier today.
For the third day in a row, defence lawyer Edward Greenspan accused former Livent controller Chris Craib of fabricating his testimony in the criminal fraud trial of Livent founders Garth Drabinsky and Myron Gottlieb.
Outside the courthouse today, a group of angry fathers were protesting the unfair treatment they feel they have received in family court. A flyer handed out by the group recommended that participants in court actions bring their own recording devices into the courtroom to ensure against perjury by their former ...
Over the course of his cross examination of Maria Messina, defence lawyer Edward Greenspan pointed out inconsistencies in the former Livent chief financial officer’s evidence that might convince the judge overseeing the case to discount her testimony. Today, on the sixth and final day of his cross examination, he attacked ...
The literary term "pathetic fallacy" describes when a writer gives human traits or feelings to nature or some other inanimate object to reflect the mood of a scene in the story. On the second day of Maria Messina's cross examination, pathetic fallacy came to life with dramatic thunder claps outside ...
Jean-Paul Sartre once said: "Hell is other people." For Maria Messina, hell might just be other people's alleged frauds. She said so on the stand. "For me it was a personal hell," she told the court in describing a particularly brutal interrogation by investigators for the U.S. Securities and Exchange ...
