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Crown paints picture of ‘voluble' Livent

JANET MCFARLAND

From Thursday's Globe and Mail

TORONTO — A former employee of Livent Inc. sent a letter to chief executive officer Garth Drabinsky in 1997, complaining that he was verbally abusive and profane, and that she couldn't stand the environment at the company, a Toronto court has heard. At the trial of Mr. Drabinsky and Livent co-founder Myron Gottlieb Wednesday, Crown attorney Robert Hubbard presented a letter sent by former senior vice-president Lynda Friendly.

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