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Author Topic: ex-Cineplex Drabinsky gets 7 years for fraud Ron Keillor Expert Film Handler Posts: 166 From: Vancouver, B.C. Canada Registered: Jul 2003 posted 08-05-2009 12:17 PM                     Aug. 5 (Bloomberg) -- Ex-Producer Garth Drabinsky was sentenced to seven years for defrauding investors in the Toronto-based production company Livent Inc. His former partner, Myron Gottlieb, received a six-year term. Ontario Superior Court Judge Mary Lou Benotto imposed the sentences today in Toronto. Earlier, she heard pleas for leniency from former politicians, writers and actors including Christopher Plummer. The maximum possible punishment was 14 years in prison. Prosecutor Alex Hrybinsky asked for sentences of eight to 10 years. The defendants asked for no prison time, suggesting they be required to visit schools to lecture about their experience. http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=a8tvhNBO04OA  |  IP: Logged Mark Gulbrandsen Resident Trollmaster Posts: 16657 From: Music City Registered: Jun 99 posted 08-05-2009 01:34 PM                     HA! So ole Garth finally got hiz comeuppance!!! HE sure got what he deserved... what a prick!  |  IP: Logged Jonathan M. Crist Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 531 From: Hershey, PA, USA Registered: Apr 2000 posted 08-05-2009 01:54 PM                     I will always remember Drabinsky's fight with Columbia/Sony over "The Last Emperor". Back when NYC still had single screen venues and exclusive runs Lowes Cineplex had Emperor booked for Christmas 1987 at several screens when Sony at the very last minute pushed the release back to February 1988 leaving those single screen theatres with no picture and no ability to get a replacement so that they lost the Christmas season. In retalitaion Drabinsky ordered that all Coca-Cola products be removed from the entire circuit (Coca Cola owned Columbia at the time).  |  IP: Logged Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 08-05-2009 02:18 PM                        quote: Topic: ex-Cineplex Drabinsky gets 7 years for fraud So the Cineplex itself got 7 years? Or this guy was an actual Cineplex? It is hard to tell by the way the title is written.  |  IP: Logged Victor Liorentas Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 800 From: london ontario canada Registered: May 2009 posted 08-05-2009 08:40 PM                     He demolished many favorite theaters of mine  |  IP: Logged Gordon McLeod Film God Posts: 9532 From: Toronto Ontario Canada Registered: Jun 99 posted 08-06-2009 07:31 AM                     And he also raised the standard and awareness of cinema after a long period of stagnation but still he got off lightly  |  IP: Logged Monte L Fullmer Film God Posts: 8367 From: Nampa, Idaho, USA Registered: Nov 2004 posted 08-08-2009 03:00 AM                     When Cineplex Odeon took over the old Plitt Circuit, there was a change of cinema presentation and atmosphere. Yet, a lot of old Plitt houses were discontinued, yet it had to be.  |  IP: Logged

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