Martha Stewart at a special Screening of Michael Moore's New Film Fahrenheit 9/11, held at the Ziegfeld Theater. -
Posted on 07/16/2004 7:35:46 AM PDT by wagglebee
"What really makes me mad is this woman because she has money."
Fixed your punctuation error for you.
Justice has been served.
Pass enough laws, make us all criminals.
Martha Stewart is no Ken Lay, but you wouldn't know that from all the hype.
Here, here! Yes, this is a shameful day. The gubbernuts have gotten out of control. The only reason they went after her is because she's famous.
ooohfah. Major culture shock is on it's way.
How about a lot of jobs for a lot of people? Without people risking their own money creating jobs and investing in employees where would we be? Where do you think jobs come from? Somebody is investing their own money creating them. They don't grow on trees.
She could do that (5 months) standing on her head. She should view it as time away from the high pressure rat race. Maybe she'll come to Jesus, others have.
Nice picture. Have any of Eliot Spitzer?
Actually he crime wasn't even technically lying. Her crime was publically proclaiming her innocence. Since she was never charged with the offence she said she was innocent of. So where did she lie?
I might point out that there's a distinction between being innocent under the law and being morally perfect.
There are two camps here: those that wish she had gotten a harsher sentence and are glad that someone with powerful liberal friends got convicted, and those that focus instead on the power of the federal government as evidenced by this prosecution for obstruction and think that, whether or not Martha is a liberal and a mean woman, the government has too much power. I don't like Martha Stewart, I don't feel particularly sorry for her, but I also don't like that the federal government has such power and can bootstrap an obstruction charge when they want to get a particular person.
Actually I did. Perhaps it never occurred to you that had Martha Steward not sold the stock, there never would have been an opportunity to lie to authorities. Furthermore, my statement talked about her "breaking the law" for an insignificant amount of money, perhaps it has escaped your attention that people quite often break the law and are sentenced for something else.
I agree. She was uppity with the Fed investigators and they got a hard on for her. I don't doubt she did something, but just how much money HAS she lost? Oprah has moved in on her territory with the home magazine nicely. Everyone is trying to take a swipe at that empire. She's out as CEO. Now, she's a %$"&^ from what I understand, but she's a good teacher, and I love some of her ideas, or the ideas she gets on the air anyway. Her mags are great. Furthermore, this is all she has. I am getting the picture anymore of beating someone who's down, and am tired of it, especially when she didn't rob peoples' pension fund and get off scot free, or kill someone in the White House or in a helicopter crash that was never investigated, or ruined a political career with a phone call. There is punishment, and then there's justice. Here, there's just City Hall. Frankly, I'd be a $#&@%, too, if I were sent through this torture chamber on a daily basis over time.
Wrong! Martha Stewart was convicted of lying to FBI agents in an FBI Regional Office when they called her in for questioning. That is technically lying, right?
Why do you believe that? You admit she lied. She therefore knowingly lied to her shareholders, which propped up Martha Stewart stock -- clearly securities fraud. Fortunately for her, the charge was dismissed on a technicality (Judge Cedarbaum later ruled that prosecutors could not call expert witnesses to testify that Stewart's actions constituted securities fraud).
"In a 23-page decision, Judge Miriam Cedarbaum dismissed one count of securities fraud against Stewart, which alone could have carried a 10-year sentence."
"Prosecutors had alleged Stewart committed securities fraud when she maintained her innocence in the midst of the investigation in press interviews and at a midyear meeting for Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia (MSLO) before analysts and investors. The government had set out to argue that Stewart's statements were not only false, but that they were intended to prevent the stock price of MSLO from plummeting."
I guess you weren't one of the poor slobs that owned the stock and got screwed by Ms. Stewart. I bet they don't think that, "other than that she did nothing wrong".
Stewart Asks To Serve House Arrest In Bedford, NY
Martha Stewart asked the judge to allow her to serve her home confinement in Bedford, N.Y.
-Dow Jones Newswires
How long is that in dog months?
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