Posted on 09/29/2004 7:48:42 AM PDT by Dog Gone
Westport's Martha Stewart has been ordered to report to a prison in West Virginia to serve her five-month term, a source close to Stewart said today.
Stewart had hoped to serve her time in Danbury so she could be close to her 90-year-old mother, or in a prison facility in Florida where there are good transporation links.
The U.S. Bureau of Prisons told Stewart last week to report to jail by Oct. 8. The source said Stewart had been told to report to the federal prison camp for women in Alderson, W. Va.
Stewart's lawyer, in a Sept. 15 letter to a federal judge requesting she be allowing to serve her sentence for obstruction of justice as soon as possible, specifically asked that she not been assigned to Alderson because it is not readily accessible by air or rail.
Hey, Martha, are you jellin'?
Like a felon.
Whip that Martha a good'un seems to be the agenda. She must have made a boatload of powerful enemies. Has anyone from Enron gone to prison yet? They wiped out countless millions of employee retirement money, but I guess punishing Martha was more urgent....
#5 on that list is ironically funny.
Dan R would hope for that verdict, too.
At least it cuts down on the chances of escape. West Virginia: the only state where you'd rather be behind bars, than out free with the locals!!!
Yes, the Feds are really making her an object lesson. If they overplay their hand, they will throw her in the general population where she will be subject to assault or worse.
Sorry, no sympathy. Her time should be measured in years, not 5 lousy months.
It is. As well as, Squeeky Frome (sp?)
Alderson is only a few miles from me....wonder if she'll do work shops? ;o)
Have you been to Alderson?
Isn't that the facility that has a zero-percent escape rate due to its isolation?
The fact that she was even indicted, let alone found guilty of anything, is evidence of a much worse problem
No, why?
I am just assuming that since WV is overwhelming white that the facility will be too. In WV, white women go to jail. In CT, the tiny percentage of black women they have go to jail. I don't think too many white women in CT are going to jail.
Two are currently in prison, another 12 are awaiting sentencing, another 6 are currently in trial court today in Houston, and another 8 are awaiting trial.
It's hardly been ignored.
I'm surprised they seem to be so callous about that reality. They're making a lesson out of her much to her own detriment and possible harm.
She's a tough cookie, but she just turned 60 and seems to me, since she's a wealthy woman, that she just could be at a higher risk of assault behind bars. She is guilty of white collar crime, and non-violent at that, her crime doesn't merit being placed with more violent offenders. She didn't get that kind of country club setting that some of the white-collar crime people get, often for their own protection. Someone really dislikes her...
My point, exactly. Skewering her is the sport of the day. I almost feel sorry for her. I don't excuse what she did, but... Remember Michael Milkin's (at least I think it was him, 80's, white collar, big embezzlement and trading fraud) country club prison, complete with tennis courts?? It seems surreal that a 'civilized' country like ours could punish Martha so aggressively and the Enron guys, who took the life savings of others, are talking about her at their weekly golf game. Did the Enron guys even have to make restitution or disclose where the stolen money is??
Dare I say it? It almost seems like they are going after her so aggressively because she is a woman, it's hard to think of a guy in a similar position or convicted of a similar crime that got as much publicity as she did and who didn't get more than a slap on the wrist and without restitution, no less.
My family knows a bootlegger up in the Alderson area....she'll need it....winters are brutal in that area of the state.....tee-hee.
If someone was out to get her, she'd be in a maximum security federal prison.
< Alderson is only a few miles from me....wonder if she'll do work shops? ;o) >
If you find out let me know too. It may be worth driving up from Charleston to attend.
My brother did his medical internship there.
Alderson doesn't need fences. West Virginia takes care of that. My brother said prisoners used to runn off, then telephone from some farmhouse to be picked up. It's about 60 miles to the nearest town.
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