David Roebuck had an unenviable task today as he kicked off the final defence oral argument in the criminal fraud trial of Garth Drabinsky and Myron Gottlieb. The quiet and methodical lawyer who—along with Edward Greenspan—is defending Drabinsky, had to convince Justice Mary Lou Benotto to ignore the reams of ...
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 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 ...
Attempts by Livent co-founders Garth Drabinsky and Myron Gottlieb to continue to allegedly cook the company's books finally prompted Maria Messina to blow the whistle on the fraud that ultimately destroyed the theatre company.
As a former partner at the accounting firm of Deloitte and Touche, Maria Messina audited Livent's books for more than four years and never had an inkling of the massive fraud that was occurring at the theatre company, Messina told an Ontario court today. Even after joining Livent in 1996 ...
While lawyers representing Livent co-founders Garth Drabinsky and Myron Gottlieb were trying to convince a criminal court judge that their clients were not guilty of criminal fraud charges in connection with the collapse of the theatre company, a second set of lawyers representing the auditors from Deloitte & Touche were ...
To the outside world Myron Gottlieb was the business brains of Livent who steered the company's financial course while his partner, Garth Drabinsky, wielded his creative genius in staging fabulous musical theatre productions like Phantom of the Opera, Showboat and Ragtime. In reality, Gottlieb was a simple businessman who understood ...
When does an inconsistent answer from a witness in court rise from an overly general statement or a genuine mistake to become an out-and-out lie? That's the answer Edward Greenspan is trying to get during his grueling cross-examination former Livent senior accountant Gordon Eckstein.
During a particularly tense cross examination of former Livent senior accountant Gordon Eckstein, Edward Greenspan, the defence lawyer representing Garth Drabinsky, approached the witness stand with a photo of U.S. president Bill Clinton standing in between Drabinsky and an attractive woman. The photo, Greenspan told the court, proved could not ...