[Always Right]

It gets even more interesting when you remember that the client is a former stockbroker, herself.

That still doesn't change the basic facts that the Broker is releasing inside information to his client. In a way this is like an entrapment. Martha did not request the information or seek to break the law, but was acting on information given to her by a licence Broker. To me it is the Broker who should be up on charges, but the broker is not the Billion dollar celebrity.

[petitfour]

The billion dollar celebrity did not need to act on the tip from the broker. She should have done NOTHING until the info was made public. She knew that. She knows that. She made the decision.

[Iwo Jima]

I agree with you. This incident actually makes me think better of Martha. She was obviously scared by the feds and was tempted to try to change the evidence. But for whatever reason she thought better of it and said "put it back the way it was." This to me shows some character that I didn't expect to see from Martha.

Yes, she was tempted to go down a wrong path, but in the end she did not. I have to give her credit for that.

[templar]

Martha did not request the information or seek to break the law ... To me it is the Broker who should be up on charges, but the broker is not the Billion dollar celebrity.

I think that she is being charged with lying about it during the investigation. She wouldn't have lied about it (assuming that she did, which is really up to a jury to determine) had she not known that what she did was illegal. Clinton did similar things and got impeached for it. He just had better friends in high places (so that he could avoid prosecution after leaving office) than Martha does.