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Martha Stewart Banned from Britain for Spreading Hate and Pastels Posted by Anthony Sacramone on May 6, 2009 Or was it hate of pastels? No. Wait. It was because of her arrest record. She’s a felon. A dangerous, wild-eyed felon. (If you think this is an unfortunate exaggeration, have you ever owned one of her lamps?) She’s not the only ruthless criminal barred from Britain. Mental Floss has compiled a list of a few others who will not be seeing Big Ben up close any time soon. (Although it’s probably time to give the Paul Robeson thing a rest. He...

BAIKONUR, Kazakhstan - A Russian rocket carrying the American billionaire who helped develop Microsoft Word blasted off late Saturday from the Baikonur cosmodrome en route to the international space station. ADVERTISEMENT The Soyuz rocket, which also carried two cosmonauts, roared into overcast nighttime skies over the bleak Kazakh steppes, bathing the launch pad and dozens of officials and well-wishers a mile away in a glow of flame as it rose vertically then turned downrange. Charles Simonyi, a 58-year-old Hungarian-born software programmer, paid more than $20 million for a 13-day trip to the orbiting station. He is the fifth paying space...

Martha Stewart Picks Space Pal's MenuPOSTED: 1:11 pm EDT April 6, 2007 BAIKONUR, Kazakhstan -- Martha Stewart has trekked from her chic surroundings to the bleak steppes of Kazakhstan to watch a friend blast into space. Stewart is a longtime friend of billionaire Charles Simonyi, who has paid up to $25 million for a lift on a Soyuz rocket to the space station. He takes off Saturday with two Russian cosmonauts for a 13-day adventure. Simonyi is a software engineer and developer of Microsoft Word. He's been friends with Stewart for about ten years. She packed a treat for the...

So far, the current uproar over the replacing of some U.S. Attorneys (something any president has the perfect right to do) looks like another attempt by Democrats to manufacture a scandal where there is none. Of course, it may well turn out that someone did something wrong, we don’t know yet; but the case has raised another issue that must be faced. Foolish or not, when Martha Stewart was arrested, tried and convicted for lying about a situation that did not involve any illegalities, I decided I would never answer any questions put to me by any federal agent.

MOSCOW - A former software developer at Microsoft could make a trip to the international space station next year aboard a Russian rocket ship, the RIA news agency reported Monday. Hungarian-born Charles Simonyi, who was one of the key developers behind applications such as Microsoft Word and Excel, would become the world's fifth paying space passenger. (MSNBC is a Microsoft-NBC joint venture.) ... Simonyi, a Seattle-area resident, is an experienced pilot. He has also been romantically linked with domestic magnate Martha Stewart in the gossip columns. Simonyi accompanied Stewart on a recent zero-gravity flight, and in a narrated video of...

Martha Stewart was just on Fox News. Cavuto called her on her contributions to the democrat party. She seemed surprised that he had that information. When questioned by Cavuto she tried to take a non-partisan stance explaining in her business she needed to be neutral. Those with the technology to obtain her contribution records need to inform her that the information is available to all. Follow up on Neal's exposure. Let her know we ALL know!

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger gave a plug Tuesday to the women in his life — his mother, his mother-in-law, his wife and chief of staff — during a women's conference that was being protested by female union members. The conference was the scene two years ago of the governor's much-publicized clash with members of the California Nurses Association, who were protesting outside. But in a reflection of Schwarzenegger's improved political fortunes, their rally Tuesday outside the Long Beach Convention Center was far smaller than the noisy events unions held during last year's special election. Schwarzenegger kept his remarks brief, speaking for...

(JHR) Ted Kennedy and his fellow liberal socialists in Massachusetts must be breaking out their fat cigars as they hoot and holler over the absolute mockery that California Republican Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and his leftist Democrat wife, Maria Shriver, are making of the California GOP. What liberal Democrats could not accomplish through the failed leadership of ousted Democratic Governor Gray Davis, they have certainly accomplished through the great conservative betrayal of Team Shriver-Schwarzenegger. Both Shriver and Schwarzenegger have each hired homosexuals to be their respective chiefs of staff. Both have taken blood oaths to promote the radical elements of the...

Six years after Martha Stewart said she was leaving Westport, Conn., the domestic diva really is bidding farewell to this wealthy seaside town -- if only someone will buy her house. Stewart has been trying for more than two months to sell her early-19th-century federal-style farmhouse for $9 million. Real estate experts say it's not unusual for luxury homes to take at least a few months to sell -- even those with Martha's famous touch. ``It's the most beautiful property I've ever seen,'' said Eileen Hill, president of the Mid Fairfield County Association of Realtors. ``Every blade of grass stands...

Homemaking diva Martha Stewart will pay about $195,000 and cannot serve as the director of a public company for five years under a settlement announced Monday on civil insider trading charges with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Under the settlement, the founder of Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia Inc., a multimedia empire dedicated to stylish living, agreed to make a payment relating to losses the government said she avoided on her sale of ImClone Systems Inc. stock in December 2001. Stewart agreed to pay $45,673, the amount of losses she avoided from her insider trading, plus $12,389 in interest. But the...

Agencies, Retailers, Manufacturers Stand Idly By For Years While Glass Tops Explode The sound of shattering glass is one of the most piercing, frightening and recognizable sounds on Earth. For owners of Martha Stewart outdoor patio tables from Kmart, that sound is pretty common. ConsumerAffairs.Com has received hundreds of complaints about the glass tops of these tables spontaneously shattering, launching shards as far as 12 feet from the table. Almost every day at least one person files a new complaint and the complaints are strikingly similar:

Fast on the heels of their impending merger with Sears, Kmart stunned the retail industry this week by announcing their plans to dump their longtime association with Martha Stewart and replace her with Rick Warren, best-selling Christian author of The Purpose-Driven Life. As part of their endeavor to “revive” their damaged reputation and spur growth, Kmart stores will phase out the Martha Stewart “Everyday” Collection later this year and introduce the Rick Warren “Purpose-Driven” Collection, which will reflect the hugely-successful philosophy of the popular pastor. Featured products in the collection will include a line of men’s Hawaiian shirts with matching...

New York -- Sometimes there is too much of a good thing. Martha Stewart believes her version of NBC's popular reality show featuring Donald Trump flopped this past fall because of too much "Apprentice." Her show was supposed to be the sole show, starting out by having her fire Trump on the air, she told Newsweek for its issue on newsstands Monday. "Having two 'Apprentices' was as unfair to him as it was unfair to me," she said. "But Donald really wanted to stay on."

Just three days after starting his new job at Sirius Satellite Radio Inc., shock jock Howard Stern is now able to sell the roughly $200 million in Sirius stock that he received as part of his five-year deal with the company. Sirius' contract with Stern runs through 2010, but the company disclosed last week that it was giving Stern and his agent 34.4 million shares of stock right away because it had already reached certain undisclosed targets for subscriber growth under the deal it signed with Stern in late 2004. On Wednesday, the company made another regulatory filing saying that...

NEW YORK - A federal appeals court Friday upheld the conviction of celebrity homemaker Martha Stewart for lying to investigators about selling stock that plunged in price soon after her trade. Stewart completed her sentence in the case last summer but pursued the appeal anyway. The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan issued a written ruling upholding the 2004 convictions of Stewart and former stockbroker Peter Bacanovic for lying about why Stewart sold nearly 4,000 shares of ImClone Systems Inc. stock in 2001. The sale came just before the stock took a dive on a negative government report...

Master of home décor, Martha Stewart is endorsing Hillary Clinton for president. “As first lady, Hillary demonstrated impeccable taste in home furnishings,” Stewart said. “Her artistic flair for drapery is unparalleled. This is the kind of leadership the country has missed since that Texas yahoo moved into the White House." Stewart also cited Senator Clinton’s investment acumen as further qualification for the presidency. “Hillary once made $100,000 in a single day in commodity speculation and she didn’t have to go to jail afterward,” Stewart said. “She’s sharp. That’s what America needs from its leaders.” As evidence of her seriousness, Ms....

Domestic diva Martha Stewart said this week that she supports Hillary Clinton for president, explaining that the former first lady "would do a very good job." Stewart tells Business Week editor-in-chief Stephen Adler that Hillary was at the top of her list of presidential prospects...

AgapePress) - An official with a pro-family group reports that a boycott campaign aimed at Target Stores nationwide has succeeded in attracting hundreds of thousands of consumers who say they intend to shop elsewhere during what is traditionally the busiest shopping weekend of the year. On Friday (Nov. 18) the American Family Association (AFA) launched on online boycott campaign against Target, citing the retailer's decision to ban Salvation Army kettles from their store entrances as well as the use of "Merry Christmas" in their in-store promotions and retail advertising. By the following Monday, almost 300,000 individuals had "signed" an online...

One thing has become crystal clear from the Martha Stewart and the Lewis Libby cases: even if you are not guilty of any crime and even if no crime was committed by anyone, do not answer any questions put to you by a government agent about anything. If you remember events differently from the way other people remember those events, you can be prosecuted for obstruction of justice. I am reasonably intelligent and have a good memory, but sometimes I can’t remember what I had for lunch yesterday. My mind tries to remember important things and to forget trivia. I...

(New York-AP, Oct. 31, 2005 2:30 PM) _ Martha Stewart tells Fortune Magazine she plans to sell her famous Turkey Hill Farm in Westport. She says she hardly ever goes there anymore and does not miss it. Stewart now spends most of her time at her home in Katonah, New York, on 153-acre estate in the rolling horse country 40 miles north of midtown Manhattan. She bought the property in 2000 for $16 million . Stewart had been a fixture in Westport since 1971, when she and her former husband, Andrew, purchased the nine-room, 19th-century Colonial house and gated Turkey...

NEWS ANALYSIS Patrick Fitzgerald Uses Martha Stewart Technique to Indict Scooter Libby By Sher Zieve Oct 29, 2005 After Martha Stewart was convicted for saying she was innocent of a crime, which could not be proved, many saw this as the test-case for allowing prosecutors free reign to employ any and all manners of Stalinesque prosecutorial techniques.  Stewart was deemed "guilty" of a non-crime for essentially saying she wasn't guilty.  Is it no longer acceptable to defend oneself?  In Martha's case, it most certainly appeared not.  However, Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald advised that he supported the case against Ms. Stewart. ...

Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia Inc.'s net loss widened by 74% in the third quarter, despite strong ad revenue gains, due to charges tied to Ms. Stewart's prime-time reality TV show. The sharply higher loss sent the company's shares down 12%, or $2.62, to $18.58 in morning trading on the New York Stock Exchange. The stock is down 50% from its 52-week high of $37.45 last February, hit shortly before the company's founder was released from prison. The stock had soared as investors anticipated her release would spark a revival in the company's business. So far, however, business has been mixed....

Before he was appointed special counsel in the Leakgate case, Patrick Fitzgerald defended the prosecution of Martha Stewart against criticism that the Justice Department indicted her only after it couldn't prove the underlying crime she was accused of - insider trading. The Stewart prosecution was run by former Deputy Attorney General James Comey, the same person who tapped Fitzgerald to run the Leakgate probe in Dec. 2003. A June 2003 "Today Show" transcript unearthed on Monday by ABC Radio host Sean Hannity shows Fitzgerald defending Comey for throwing the book at the domestic diva. NBC's Anne Thompson introduced Fitzgerald as...

WHO IS FITZGERALD? WHO APPOINTED HIM? Sean Hannity does some research....   by Mia T, 10.24.05   Fitzgerald was appointed by his pal of 14 years, Deputy Attorney General James Comey (who was, himself, appointed by Bush, of course). Reported today by Sean Hannity: Fitzgerald & Comey are a duo, according to various reports. What is interesting is that when Comey was United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, he refused to indict assorted rodhams and clintons for pardongate crimes, including the Rich deal and the New Square statistical miracle. But he was not averse to indicting...

WHEN women first joined the executive ranks of corporate America a generation ago, they donned sober slacks and button-down shirts. They carried standard-issue briefcases and adopted their male colleagues' stoicism. More than two decades later, women have stopped trying to behave like men, trading in drab briefcases for handbags and embracing men's wear only if it is tailored to their curves. Yet there is one taboo from the earlier, prefeminist workplace that endures: women are not allowed to cry at the office. It is a potentially career-marring mistake that continues to be seen as a sign of weakness or irrationality,...

The homemaking diva has been spending time with KB Home Chief Executive Bruce Karatz. KB Home, the big L.A.-based home builder, is expected to ink a deal next week that will have Stewart bringing her home design expertise to the national builder. Details are still sketchy. Though Stewart got tepid reviews for her new reality show, “The Apprentice: Martha Stewart,” she’ll likely fare better in the comfort of home design. Her third TV program, still in the works, involves redoing a 125-year-old house.

Martha Stewart, who says she's given up fur, has made a video for PETA.

Albany [Delmar], New York - Group organizes effort to draft Martha Stewart for NY Senate in 2006 at www.marthaforsenate.com. An excerpt from the site read "New York Politics may be mean and ugly. But Martha is the Queen of clean and who better to tidy up Washington than her? " Unlike Hillary Clinton who spent little time in New York prior to becoming Senator, Martha Stewart received a degree from Barnard and owns several properties in the State. Also, unlike Hillary, Martha is a self-made business woman. Questions about her eligibility due to the ImClone scandal pale in comparison to...

Move over Hillary and Jeanine Pirro. There is a new woman in town. Martha Stewart for United States Senate from New York State in 2006. New York Politics may be mean and ugly. But Martha is the Queen of clean and who better to tidy up Washington than her?

LOS ANGELES -- Martha Stewart said home confinement was tougher than doing time in federal prison. She told Time magazine it was "extremely difficult," especially for "a busy person watching the clock, and knowing other people are watching the clock." Stewart was only allowed out of her house for a limited period. The domestic diva served five months behind bars for lying to authorities about a stock deal and nearly six more months in home confinement. She's been free of her electronic ankle bracelet monitor since Sept. 1

KATONAH, N.Y.— Unless she gets into trouble with her probation officer, Martha Stewart will gain her freedom Wednesday from her “hideous” home confinement sentence and that bothersome, unstylish electronic monitoring anklet. After five months in prison for lying about a stock sale and five months of court-ordered restrictions at her Westchester County estate — plus three weeks tacked on for misbehaving — the queen of domestic marketing should be able to move around like any other convicted felon who has done her time. Stewart will still be on probation, but she will no longer be limited to 48 hours out...

Apparently, Martha Stewart just couldn't resist the call of a yoga class. The design guru, who was slated to take off her ankle bracelet for good next week, violated the terms of her sentence by attending a yoga studio near her estate, according to reports. Stewart must now serve an additional three weeks of home confinement as a result of attempting to dupe authorities. "Martha Stewart has agreed to an extension of the terms of her home confinement until Aug. 31.," her lawyer, Walter Dellinger, said in a statement released Wednesday. Although Dellinger did not say explicitly why Stewart's sentence...

She is serving more time, off roading perhaps.

Looks like Karl Rove did break the law, the same federal law that got Martha Stewart sentenced to six months in prison. It now appears that Rove, President Bush’s chief of staff, may have lied to the FBI in October 2003-a federal crime-when he was questioned by federal agents who were investigating the source responsible for leaking the true identity of an undercover CIA operative to the media. During questioning by the FBI about his role in the Valerie Plame affair, Rove told federal agents that he first started sharing information about Plame’s undercover status to reporters and White House...

Martha Stewart is using some of her time under house arrest to write a guidebook for entrepreneurs who want to follow her path to business success. The founder of the Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia Inc. (MSO) merchandising and media empire is serving a five-month term at her home in Bedford, N.Y., after recently completing five months in a West Virginia federal prison for lying about a stock sale. "Martha's Rules," a handbook for developing a business from scratch, will be published by Rodale Inc. of Emmaus, Pa., in October, Stewart's company said Wednesday. The book deal follows Stewart's decision to...

...FDA oncology drugs chief Richard Pazdur is the most important person in the U.S. government when it comes to cancer drugs, and he has never made a secret that he dislikes the accelerated approval process under which Iressa got the green light. Nor has he been shy about suggesting that the agency was railroaded in this drug's case. The truth is that Iressa-maker AstraZeneca simply refused to play by Dr. Pazdur's rules. In 2002 -- knowing it had plenty of data to qualify for accelerated approval -- the company rebuffed his requests for more trials and appealed directly to something...

NEW YORK (AP) - Martha Stewart says in a new interview that her nickname in prison was M. Diddy, that house arrest is "hideous" and that her prosecution was about bringing her down "to scare other people." In the interview, Stewart tells Vanity Fair magazine she agrees with those who say her crime - lying about a personal stock sale - is far different from massive corporate scandals such as Enron, WorldCom and Tyco. "Of course that is what it's all about," Vanity Fair quotes Stewart as saying. "Bring 'em down a notch, to scare other people. If Martha can...

She's an icon, she's an ex-con — and now Martha Stewart (search) is a musical. The raucous, rags-to-riches story of America's guru of gracious living is being turned into a tongue-in-cheek theater production.

By Paul J. GoughThu Jun 23, 3:12 AM ET There won't be any "You're fired" death knells sounded when Martha Stewart takes the reins of "The Apprentice" this fall. The domestic doyenne will find her own way in her own reality series -- but she won't say what it is yet. The show will spotlight Stewart's working life and her attempts to find an aide through the TV process pioneered by Donald Trump through two seasons on NBC. "I think you'll find it quite different," Stewart said Wednesday during an appearance at the Promax&BDA conference of marketing executives in New...

June 3, 2005 Arthur Andersen and the Innocent Criminals The importance of a guilty mind Jacob Sullum If Arthur Andersen were a man on death row, he could be released after his conviction was overturned. But the accounting firm, which was ruined by a 2002 witness tampering indictment that scared away its clients, is beyond saving. As a law professor told The New York Times, "The government gave the corporation a death sentence, and the corporation died." Andersen, which once had 28,000 employees in the United States, has been reduced to a skeleton crew of 200. The U.S. Supreme...

Nice work if you can get it. Officials are looking into whether Martha Stewart's appearance at a glitzy Manhattan ball last week was proper under her work release program. The probe began after the domestic diva attended Time magazine's gala Tuesday celebrating its 100 Most Influential People - including Stewart, authorities said. "We have some information that this event may not have been directly work-related, so we will be doing some investigating," said Chris Stanton, chief federal probation officer for the Southern District of New York.

Martha Stewart, just six weeks out of federal prison and still under house arrest, signed another major deal today, this time with Sirius Satellite Radio Inc. to broadcast a 24-hour channel featuring lifestyle reports aimed at women. "It has been our dream to bring our expertise in the lifestyle arena, and our vast library of how-to ideas, to radio programming," Ms. Stewart said in a statement by the companies announcing the agreement. "Just as we pioneered in the creation of the how-to lifestyle magazine and how-to television media categories, our new partnership with Sirius is breaking new ground in satellite...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Martha Stewart must keep wearing her electronic bracelet and abide by home confinement rules despite complaints the terms were hurting her efforts to revive her namesake company and work on new television projects, a federal judge ruled on Monday. U.S. District Judge Miriam Goldman Cedarbaum also denied Stewart's arguments that she should get a new sentence because of a U.S. Supreme Court ruling in January that held that federal sentencing guidelines are to be advisory rather than mandatory. The judge said the highest court's ruling would not change her decision in Stewart's case. The judge said...

Domestic Hypocrisy: Martha Stewart’s “Apprentice” Lie March 16, 2005 By Debbie Schlussel Amidst the Second Coming of Martha Stewart, the Domestic Diva told another big lie. But not a single member of the pandering media has taken note. Remember the empathetic Martha’s exhortations from prison about poor treatment of convicts when they’re released from prison? Stewart decried the lack of employment for convicts. No-one will hire them, she complained. No-one, including Martha. Even before she was released from Camp Cupcake in Alderson, West Virginia, Stewart’s production partner, reality TV king Mark Burnett, was holding auditions for Martha’s version of “The...

The reason for adopting the website realmartha.com is to focus on the fact that celebrity turned felons are making a mockery out of our United States criminal justice system. Celebrities feel that they are above the law, and are often treated with “kid gloves” when it comes to sentencing and probationary handlings. The typical US citizen lives with the belief justice and fairness under the law apply to ALL. One does not control the judicial system with money and status, the judicial system makes and enforces the law! Mistakes are acknowledged and experience is gained. Crimes are tried and punished....

Freed from prison two weeks ago, Martha Stewart is planning multiple TV projects to continue repairing her battered image. But she might not like what CBS — her onetime broadcast partner — is cooking up. Stewart, who's planning to star in a new version of NBC's "The Apprentice" and host a syndicated lifestyle show next season, will be the subject of a two-hour unauthorized TV movie that CBS is rushing into production in Toronto later this month, possibly for telecast during the May ratings "sweep," which helps set the rates that local stations charge advertisers. Sources said CBS and its...

Living in New York, I have no choice but to read the New York Times every day. I try to leaven it with the Daily News and the New York Post, but it's a witch's brew. The News has somehow cast itself as the newspaper of the underclass, so it feels obliged to report every bit of mayhem coming out of New York's poor neighborhoods. Somebody killed somebody over a jacket. Somebody got shot over a parking space. A grandmother in a housing project was killed in the crossfire by drug dealers. News about democracy demonstrations in Lebanon usually appears...

Martha Stewart, AKA, Domestic Diva, Home Furnishings Honcho, Bilious Billionaire, and Foul-mouthed Bully toward those too powerless to fight back, was recently released after 5 months in prison for obstruction of justice. As expected, her release has become a promotional event, and, with the help of some star-struck sycophants, another opportunity to proclaim that she wouldn’t have done any time if she had been a man. Yet, Sam Waksal, the CEO of ImClone, the company involved in the stock manipulation deal that caught Ms. Stewart in its web of greed, received 7 years in prison. In addition, Mr. Waksal was...

SAM WAKSAL Stock tipster in prison. The ImClone insider- trading scandal that landed domestic diva Martha Stewart in prison claimed two more casualties yesterday, including a top doctor at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. Martha pal Sam Waksal, the CEO of the biotech company, ratted out his two friends before a grand jury — in return for immunity from further prosecution, according to a federal complaint released yesterday. He is already serving seven years........ Zvi Fuks, head of Sloan-Kettering's radiation oncology department, and Israeli businesswoman Sabina Ben-Yehuda were busted on charges of securities fraud for allegedly dumping their ImClone stock...

She is speaking to her employees in New York. Good L-rd I wish I bought her stock when it was trading at 8. It is gonna go through the roof. She is gonna come out of this looking like a saint.