Actually, Martha Stewart was found not guilty of insider trading by a jury of her peers. She was charged, she was tried, and she was acquitted. She was convicted only of “process crimes” similar to the ones that snagged General Flynn. And she served 5 months of actual prison time, a fact you also misstated. I guess for some reason you dislike Martha.
Her hometime of Nutley New Jersey is rightly proud of Martha Stewart, and when she was indicted they took the opportunity to induct her into the Nutley Hall of Fame, figuring shrewdly that she would be grateful and would show up in person for the induction ceremony, which she did. And Martha remains a member of the Nutley Hall of Fame, along with that slightly more famous Nutley resident Annie Oakley.
“Actually, Martha Stewart was found not guilty of insider trading by a jury of her peers.”
No she wasn’t.
Martha Stewart was accused of insider trading after she sold four thousand ImClone shares one day before that firm’s stock price plummeted. Although the charges of securities fraud were thrown out, Ms. Stewart was found guilty of four counts of obstruction of justice and lying to investigators.
The insider trading charge and all security fraud charges were tossed out and never made it to trial. She got a free ride.
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