Posted on 07/16/2004 7:23:49 AM PDT by TomGuy
In a related development, K-Mart is running a sale on Martha Stewart brands today.
"10 Easy ways to please your jail bitch"
Being a stock broker and sitting on the SEC board she should have been given the maximum. Her illegal trading was probably a constant crime only this time she got caught at it and then lied about.
She should have been given an additional 2 years at least for trying to simulate a rag mop with that thing she calls a hairdoo!
Good point--fulfilling her sentence is stayed pending appeal.
As someone said earlier on this thread, she'll be out on appeals until her sense of style fades away with encroaching dementia in old age.
No way that prima donna touches the inside of a jail cell. Ah, the blessings of being rich and famous.
"amazing how many conservaties hate Martha for her poltics and want the legal system to punish her for listening to her broker."
Martha Stewart was a stockbroker in the late 1960's and early 1970's. From what I can tell, she did something verging on unethical, and that career imploded. She was eventually forced to selling pies at an open air market, and that was the beginning of the Martha Stewart everybody now knows.
While I consider myself a Conservative, I'm also a business owner. Martha Stewart didn't need "advice from her stockbroker" having been one herself. She knew what she was doing was wrong when she did it. She was trained in the field in question.
Sorry, Martha "broke the faith" all CEO's are supposed to abide by, and is now going to jail.
I'm satisfied with the sentence, just as I was satisfied years ago when Leona Helmsley went to prison.
Funny how the "Martha Supporters" never utter a word about the small stockholders that have lost because of her intentional acts of deception.
Guess if you can arrange flowers well, you get a pass, huh?
She betrayed the NYSE Board of Directors. She betrayed every employee of Omniliving. She betrayed thousands of investors. She betrayed her own fans, of which you are one.
Sorry, she got off light given the money lost by others, not herself. Then again, this whole thing began when she tried to avoid a relatively minor loss.
Her greed is no different than Ken Lay's, or Ebbers, or any of the others. The only difference in the end was the dollar amounts as they relate to her personal loss.
Pox on all their houses. They broke the faith.
Martha giving statement now
What I don't understand is that with the crime she committed, I thought it was common the feds would confiscate ALL your assets (home, bank accounts, etc.) Is that not right?
The stock shennanigans is not what got her in the pokey. If she had simply fessed up when they came knocking, she would have gotten a fine and a slap on the wrist. Her ego made her think that she could get away with it, so she lied to the Feds. Big mistake, and the lawyer that let her do it should be doing time, too.
Well, at least she has the stones to come out there and make a statement. Wonder what Ken Lay is thinking.
Wow, she's just DRIPPING in sincerity, isn't she? LOL.
Ken Lay has been all over TV making his case.
"5 months in prison"
Well I guess this totaly blows Geraldine Ferraro's thoey out of the water that Martha was getting treated so "harshly" in this case because she was female. She actually was on FNC aqbout an hour ago saying that!
Five months? If they were going to give her so little time they should have just given her time served and be done with it.
$20 says that RAT media types will be crying all day about the unfair sentence and that she really didn't do anything that bad. (Ferraro already sent the trial ballon up on this theory this morning). And the same analysts will cheer loud and long if someone like Ken lay gets 20 years.
One less vote for Kerry!
No, I think corrupt individuals are heroes in some peoples eyes. Unless they dump their wad in the White House sink. Then they can cry foul.
I have been almost choked to death...
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