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A high-profile case providing a Canadian perspective on white-collar sentencing

By Douglas A. Berman

This Bloomberg news article, headlined "Prosecutor Seeks 8-10 Years for Ex-Broadway Producers," provides an interesting comparative perspective on white-collar sentencing debates. Here are a few excerpts: Garth Drabinsky and Myron Gottlieb, once Broadway producers with hits like ?Ragtime,? should spend 8 to 10 years in prison for defrauding investors of millions of dollars, prosecutor Alex Hrybinsky said today at the start of a sentencing hearing in Toronto.  Drabinsky, 59, and Gottlieb, 65, were charged by police in October 2002 with lying about finances at the defunct theater producer Livent Inc. for nine years as they raised about C$500 million ($431 million) to buy theaters in Toronto, Chicago and New York and paid for increasingly lavish productions, including ?Fosse? and ?Phantom of the Opera...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on July 06, 2009 (boomark / email).