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Livent trial hears of clock being pelted at former CFO
Posted on June 24, 2008 by Douglas Bell
Eddie Greenspan’s continuing cross-examination of Maria Messina at the Livent trial took an odd turn shortly after noon yesterday when, in his continuing effort to erode, corrode and generally subvert Ms. Messina’s credibility, he mocked her testimony that former Livent finance VP Gord Eckstein once threw a clock at her during a meeting: “Do you recall how close it came [to hitting you?]… You must have thought he was stark raving mad…Sybil had run amok.”
The reference to Sybil came from Messina’s earlier testimony that Eckstein had multiple personalities—that his mood could change in an instant from affable to enraged.
At the break, Crown Bob Hubbard wondered aloud to a gathering of reporters whether in the afternoon session Eddie might introduce the three faces of Eve. Offered one wag: “Eve run amok just doesn’t have the same ring as Sybil run amok.”
• Defence calls former Livent CFO an 'outright liar' [Globe and Mail]
• Livent whistleblower blasted at fraud trial [Toronto Star]
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leaf June 24, 2008 at 10:41 a.m.
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dr June 24, 2008 at 12:45 p.m.
We have to assume that there will be numerous other witnesses who will testify to Gottlieb and Drabinsky being thoroughly familiar with the details of the fraud. Will the Greenspans attempt to paint every one of them as liars and fraud artists?
Lit_200 June 24, 2008 at 4 p.m.
One can only hope
Fintan June 25, 2008 at 8:04 a.m.
leaf June 24, 2008 at 10:41 a.m.
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Poor little thing! ROFL
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dr June 25, 2008 at 8:22 a.m.
Even if everything Greenspan says is true about Messina, it still does not detract from Gottlieb's and Drabinsky's knowledge and complicity with the fraud. What are the sentencing guidelines for "incredibly guilty."
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