The CBC is saying Saturday that Barry Sherman was engaged in a lawsuit against a convicted fraudster who had allegedly duped the billionaire philanthropist out of a $150,000 investment. Ontario Superior Court documents show Sherman, founder of the Canadian pharmaceutical giant Apotex, intended to invest in an app called Trivia For Good, which described itself as a “mobile-trivia app that offers huge cash prizes. The principal of this scheme is named by the CBC as Shaun Rootenberg, the former interim chief financial officer at Algoma Public Health. He faced charges of fraud over $5,000 in relation to funds allegedly taken from people he met on a dating site. Toronto Police said in June, 2017, that Rootenberg operated on eHarmony as Shaun Rothberg. The CBC says that Sherman was introduced to Mr. Rootenberg by Myron Gottlieb. He was a partner with Garth Drabinsky in Livent
- Barry Sherman allegedly duped by convicted fraudster
- Shaun Rootenberg charged with defrauding people he met on eHarmony
