Posted on 07/16/2004 7:23:49 AM PDT by TomGuy
She can leave the mansion for 48 hours a week......your kidding me right?
Not enough time to redecorate the jail cell
Hahahahahaha!
What a joke.
Exactly. Us little people would have served the entire 16 months. And that 30K fine? Chump change to Martha. We would have been fined 75K and would hav killed us.
As a conselation(sic)maybe someone will wipe that smug look off her face in the 5 months time she serves. We can only hope.
This type of insider trading happens everyday across America. It doesn't make it right. But, when applying the law, it should be done consistently or the law itself loses credibility and impact.
What's worse? What Martha Stewart did and was caught doing or the fact that many others continue to do this with no repercussions at all?
Laws are useless unless applied consistently and credibly.
Although I have no experience
- I'd guess that 'all-women prison' cannot be as bad as 'all-men'.....
This is pathetic.
She'll be free on appeal until she dies of old age...
She should have gotten the MAX.
She'll have five months to make precious little christmas ornaments {that she can auction off on Ebay for charity} and still be out in time to make eggnog and decorate her trees. If she goes to prison NOW, she won't skip a beat.
It's a good thing.
If she were just a run-of-the-mill celebrity, I'd agree with lenience. But the fact that she is a licensed stockbroker herself means that she knew what she was doing was illegal, but she did it anyway.
She lives a life of fraud.
The end result is that people who are deemed status symbols by society are above the law. There is no right or wrong. There is only status.
Someone probably cares.
Funny thing is that IMCLONE stock was at $80.00 yesterday. Martha dumped it at a litle less than $60.00. If she held the stock, she would have made a profit instead of being shipped off to prison. LOL! And now she's a convicted felon and loses her right to vote. Another Clintonite gets what they deserve.
She knowingly defrauded investors out of money, in return creating money for herself.
Let's rephrase that comment of yours:
"amazing how many conservaties (sic) love Martha for her poltics and want the legal system to reward her for listening to her broker".
I was thinking 6 months would be good--this works for me. Some jail time and a lot of humiliation for a lifetime of hubris.
I don't feel sorry for Martha in the least--I think this is one more current example of the message to CEO's: stay in line or else.
Yep--and her stock is up about 20% in the past hour.
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