Going along with the schemes was the only way the engineer could get paid for his legitimate Livent work, the engineer testified. Livent was routinely late in paying its bills, sometimes taking up to a year to pay the fees Kofman had wracked up for his work helping to construct ...

Kofman began working with Drabinsky and Gottlieb when he joined Cineplex Odeon as an engineer working on the company's redevelopment of movie theatres in Canada and abroad. When Drabinsky and Gottlieb were forced out of that company, Kofman followed them and began working on their rehabilitation of the Pantages theatre ...