Edward Greenspan wrapped up his cross-examination of Chris Craib today trying to convince the judge overseeing the fraud trial of his client Garth Drabinsky that just about everything the former Livent controller testified to was a lie.
Will the guilt or innocence of Livent founders Garth Drabinsky and Myron Gottlieb rely on whether Diane Winkfein recalls whether a scribbled notation on a financial document was written on April 23, 1998 or the next day? The answer appears to be…yes. That date is vital to the defence, judging ...
For the first time since the criminal fraud trial of Garth Drabinsky and Myron Gottlieb began in May, lawyers managed to complete the entire testimony and cross-examination of a witness in a single day. But even then, defence lawyers spent considerable time quizzing Raymond Cheong, Livent’s former manager of information ...
At the Conrad Black trial in Chicago last year, David Radler spent four days on the stand being cross-examined by Edward Greenspan and lawyers representing two other Hollinger executives. Andy Fastow, the key witness in the trial of Enron CEO Ken Lay, also spent four days on the witness stand ...
Allegations that Livent’s accounting staff conspired to frame Garth Drabinsky and Myron Gottlieb for criminal fraud grew larger yesterday as the defence accused Maria Messina of collusion and fabricating evidence to cover up her own involvement in accounting fraud at the theatre company.
