The governing body of Ontario’s chartered accountants has upheld an earlier ruling that found Livent’s former auditors guilty of professional misconduct. An appeal committee of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Ontario (ICAO) ruled three senior accountants from Deloitte and Touche's Canadian arm—including the firm’s former chairman—violated professional accounting standards ...

The spectre of Gordon Eckstein never drifts far from the action at the criminal fraud trial of Garth Drabinsky and Myron Gottlieb. But defence lawyers evoked the ghost of Livent’s former vice-president of finance and administration with great gusto today as they grilled former Livent construction controller Tony Fiorino. Unlike ...

In my original blog post about Diane Winkfein, I speculated that, despite having a 23-year working relationship with Garth Drabinsky, the testimony of the former Livent controller may have actually done more damage to Myron Gottlieb. After all, Winkfein had more contact with Gottlieb and told the court about two ...