Martha Stewart is doing time for a bad transaction that is a fraction of Redstone's deal.
Joe SI\ixpack will be able to understand it, and that's what counts in MSMville when the DAs get out their knives.
Martha Stewart sold in the open market and lied about it, and was never convicted for making the sale - she was convicted for obstruction of justice - for the lie.
Never believe the NYSE cannot monitor every single transaction that occurs evey single day in every single security in every single brokerage account in the country. As a Series 7 Regisered Representative I live that fact daily.
A Rule 144 sale must be approved in advance as a Registration for Public Trading of previously unregistered shares. Registration means the regulatory bodies are informed.
No doubt the investing (or paper-reading) public will be falsely outraged over this, but legally it can go nowhere.