Someone educate me here. Why, after sentencing, is Martha Stewart not starting to serve her sentence?
If you or I was just finished getting sentenced by a judge for being convicted of a felony don't you know that they would take you straight from the court room to the jailhouse.
What gives here? Any enlightened legal scholars please explain.
I will always remember her for that. Of all the legendary people who have ever served time in prison, she picked the purveyor of flaming-tire necklaces.
Thw worst for Martha Stewart has yet to come. There is a very good reason the insider trading charges were filed in Civil Court, not criminal.
In the coming Civil Trial, Stewart can't plead the Fifth Amendment. She can't refuse to answer questions, she can't refuse to sit on the witness stand.
And thats the ballgame for her, and Omniliving, folks. When that trial is over, Martha Stewart will never be allowed to sit as the CEO of a company again, will never be able to sit on any board of directors. She will never be able to assume a position of control in any company.
And the verdict will cost her millions of dollars in fines.
Won't happen til the appeal process is over....about 18 months from now.
Having noticed your "FREE MARTHA" tagline, I thought you might like this.
Just what is it that Stewart did that warranted the cost of this investigation? She stands accused of telling investigators that she wasn't guilty of what they accused her of doing. The fact is that the prosecutors were not able to make those accusations in a court of law, where she would have been forced to proclaim her guilt or innocence, so the prosecutors charged her with lying about her guilt. Now does that make much sense? The reason that they were unable to charge her with insider trading is because she was not an insider.
Maybe Hitlery will pick her to run as her Vice-Presidential Candidate in 2008 or appoint her to a Federal Department as Commissioner of Good Works.