Efforts by Livent founder Myron Gottlieb to pin the blame for a massive accounting fraud at the company on an elaborate conspiracy by lawyers, accountants and former company employees was dealt a legal blow earlier this week. For the second time, an Ontario court has dismissed a lawsuit filed by ...

Over the past five months of the criminal fraud trial of Garth Drabinsky and Myron Gottlieb, prosecutors have spent much time introducing the reams of internal Livent documents that they insist prove that the Livent founders were fully aware of the massive fraud at the theatre company.

The goal of defence lawyers in their cross examination of Chris Craib has been two-fold. First, destroy the credibility of the former Livent controller who testified that he witnessed Garth Drabinsky openly discuss plans to manipulate the company’s financial results at a meeting in April 1998. Second, convince the judge ...