Joe Schneider from Bloomsberg Ex-‘Ragtime’ Producers Propose Lecture Tour to Pay for Fraud and Artsbeat’s Dave Itzkoff reports in Convicted Producers Suggest Lecture Tour Instead of Prison that theatre producers Garth H. Drabinsky and Myron I. Gottlieb are still two of the craftiest and most creative guys out there.
As if to prove the old adage that those that can’t do teach – the two who have been convicted of defrauding investors of hundreds of millions have suggest that they lecture in Canadian schools on business ethics rather than serving a prison term. Bloomsberg describe the curriculum as follows:
Drabinsky would teach theater students “discipline in the craft,” talk about honesty and “avoidance of unethical conduct” in visits to 65 schools across the country, as part of a sentence in which he would avoid jail, his lawyer Edward Greenspan told a judge at a sentencing hearing in Toronto today. Gottlieb proposed to discuss business ethics at six universities.
Hmm…I guess when facing 24 years in prison I would rather teach too. But they have been convicted of a crime and don’t the victims of said crime deserve a little justice.
Photos by Chris Young/Canadian Press Garth H. Drabinsky, left, and Myron I. Gottlieb were convicted in March.
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This is a really serious case, but I can’t help finding the story quite amusing. You can’t say that they’re not creative! Producing, committing fraud, trying to get easier sentences…just amazing they keep going.
I thought is was very amusing too. They get an A+ for creativity! And for keeping the myth going. I am adding a link to Riedel’s column about them.
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