Over the last few months of testimony at the criminal fraud trial of Garth Drabinsky and Myron Gottlieb a lot of words have been used to describe Livent accounting. One witness called the practice of allegedly burying millions of dollars in expenses on the company’s balance sheet “baseless and ...
As if there weren’t already enough documents in the criminal fraud trial of Livent founders Garth Drabinsky and Myron Gottlieb, earlier today defence lawyers produced one that they created themselves. You can’t really blame them. The document was meant to help speed up the cross examination of former Livent controller ...
Here’s an interesting legal question for you: If you allegedly committed a fraud, but there was a legal way for you to achieve the same ends, did you still commit a crime? I don’t know the answer, but the question is something defence lawyers representing Livent founders Garth Drabinsky ...
We’ve all been waiting for this moment in the criminal fraud trial of Garth Drabinsky and Myron Gottlieb. The moment when courtroom observers would be overwhelmed by the minutiae of the accounting, finding ourselves floating in the sea of complicated and impenetrable accounting transactions that culminated in the widespread alleged ...
Of the former Livent accounting department staff members who have testified at the criminal fraud trial of company founders Garth Drabinsky and Myron Gottlieb, Grant Malcolm is the first witness that actually looks like an accountant. Gordon Eckstein, Livent’s former senior vice president of finance who was prone to profane ...
