Another potential motive Drabinsky had for participating in accounting irregularities was an attempt to escape a "crushing personal debt," the crown alleges. That motive comes from that letter Drabinsky wrote to Karen Poppell, his "mistress," uh, I mean friend, or whatever.

As Livent's largest shareholders and highest paid executives, prosecutors argue that Drabinsky and Gottlieb had the most to gain by the alleged fraud at the theatre company. "On that simplistic theory, every CEO and President of every major coporation has motivation to defraud the company to which they owe a ...

One of the strangest aspects of this case was the argument by the defence that while Drabinsky and Gottlieb had no idea of the accounting manipulations that mysteriously transformed the millions in losses Livent was actually producing into tens of millions in profits, many of those manipulations were - well ...

In addition to stuffing his "Nuremburg file," Eckstein actively kept informtion from Drabinsky and Gottlieb, the defence argues. In one instance Tony Fiorino testified that Eckstein told him to remove improper transfers to the company's fixed assets from budget-to-actual reports circulated to senior managers. "The key information was buried at ...

One of the explanations for with the myriad of documents prosecutors say clearly show that Drabinsky and Gottlieb knew about the fraud is the defence contention that Eckstein was manipulating those documents to make them seem more incriminating than they actually were and then stuffing them into his "Nuremburg File," ...

Clear examples of Eckstein's lies were brought out in the course of cross examination, the defence argues:

The one witness the defence must utterly destroy is Gordon Eckstein. He was in charge of Livent's accounting almost from the beginning and testified that Drabinsky and Gottlieb were well aware of all of the accounting manipulations he ordered staff to implement. The defence is pulling no punches in its ...

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 ...

It was speed-dating day at the criminal fraud trial of Livent founders Garth Drabinsky and Myron Gottlieb as the court completed the testimony of three witnesses in one day. In a trial where it’s been par for the course to keep witnesses on the stand for more than a week, that’s ...

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 ...