Supreme Court denies leave to appeal in theatre mogul Garth Drabinsky case

OTTAWA – The Supreme Court of Canada will not hear the appeal of former theatre mogul Garth Drabinsky.

Drabinsky was appealing a ruling last year by Ontario’s Court of Appeal, which refused to overturn his two fraud convictions.

Drabinsky and his business partner Myron Gottlieb — each convicted in 2009 on two counts of fraud related to Livent Inc., the famous theatre company they founded — were imprisoned in mid-September after an Appeal Court panel upheld their convictions.

Their sentences, however, were trimmed with Drabinsky facing five years in prison and Gottlieb four.

Livent was once considered the toast of the Canadian theatre scene but collapsed in bankruptcy in 1998 with investors losing an estimated $500-million.

The two men were convicted after an Ontario court judge found that during a nine-year span they manipulated the income reported by Livent with a kickback scheme which dated back to 1989.

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