White collar criminal Garth Drabinsky — the theatre impresario who once ran the Broadway producing organization Livent, which collapsed in a $500 million financial scandal — has been granted "day parole" and will serve the rest of his five-year fraud conviction sentence in a more open "halfway house" in Toronto, the Parole Board of Canada decided on Oct. 24.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:22PM on October 25, 2012