“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.
wy69
Ok, she was tried before a jury and and then acquitted by the judge, who considered the insider trading case so weak he didn’t even let it go to the jury. https://caselaw.findlaw.com/us-2nd-circuit/1066381.html
If Martha had been smart enough never to have talked to the FBI, she never would have gone to jail. And the same goes for General Flynn.