Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...with the books to disguise Livent's precarious financial condition. He's been accused of hiding expenses, of misleading auditors and devising a kickback scheme that funneled more than $5 million to him and his longtime partner Myron Gottlieb (his co-defendant, who has also denied the charges). The legal donnybrook drove Drabinsky to shelter in his native Canada, although he is subject to extradition, which is awaiting the conclusion of an investigation by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police...
Even from a stage well out of the limelight, Drabinsky, 49, fiercely maintains his innocence. "I was absolutely steamrolled into the U.S. justice system," he told TIME, in his first U.S. interview since his legal woes began. "I want the rhetoric to be stripped away and the truth to emerge, and it will." Though he declined to answer specific charges on the advice of his attorney (who was present during the interview), Drabinsky claims in general that he was too busy running the company's creative affairs to pay much attention to the books. "It's not humanly possible that...
...Canada is not a penalty; I'm proud of Canada") or that his creative life is over. He says he's developing a TV series that would be shot partly in New York City and is consulting on two "destination entertainment-cultural developments" being planned in Ontario. The legal morass he faces is "draining, emotionally and fiscally," he admits. "But my spirit is good." It will have...
...prison inmates. "She was very, very serious," says Richard Burr, a death-penalty expert who advised the authors. "She had done a lot of homework on specific cases already, which is rare." Rarer still was her gentility. Both times she interviewed Jack Boger, then a lawyer with the N.A.A.C.P. Legal Defense Fund, Caroline sent him a handwritten thank-you note...
...Right to Privacy, was read by some as a veiled protest written by a woman uneasy with the public's demands on her personal space. It is actually much more--a scholarly but accessible work that aims, in some small way, to raise public understanding of a complex legal problem. "I hope it will show people there is a process for working things out," she said in 1995. "To the extent that we are all educated and informed, we will be more equipped to deal with the gut issues that tend to divide us." It's a quaint notion, perhaps...