Posted on 03/03/2005 4:04:47 PM PST by Former Military Chick
WASHINGTON : US lifestyle guru Martha Stewart was set to leave jail Friday after a five-month sentence for a stock scandal that boosted her career rather than dooming it.
Stewart's time in jail officially ends Sunday, but the federal prisons bureau can release prisoners on a Friday if their sentences end over the weekend, said US prisons spokeswoman Carla Wilson.
Supporters eagerly awaited her release from the Alderson minimum security prison in West Virginia, which inmates call "Camp Cupcake."
The news media were also outside the prison in force.
Stewart's reputation has made a massive public rebound during her time in Alderson, despite the conviction for lying about a dodgy stock sale.
She will serve five more months under house arrest at her 62-hectare (163-acre) country estate in Bedford, New York.
She will have to wear an electronic ankle bracelet tracking her movements.
Stewart may leave the property for 48 hours a week for work, which she already has lined up.
Indeed, Stewart, 63, has won a contract to host a knock-off of tycoon Donald Trump's successful NBC television reality show "The Apprentice."
She will also star in a show focusing on the same subjects that she built into a multi-million dollar lifestyle empire -- cooking, entertaining, decorating and home renovating.
"People love redemption stories," said "Apprentice" producer Mark Burnett. "You pay your price and Americans allow you to move on."
The businesswoman was convicted in March last year of lying to federal agents investigating her sale of nearly 4,000 shares in biotechnology company ImClone Systems.
She began serving her sentence in October.
Newsweek noted her post-conviction fame in its cover this week headlined: "Martha's Last Laugh: After Prison, She's Thinner, Wealthier and Ready for Prime Time."
However, the newsweekly is also in trouble for using the head of Stewart on the body of a model for the cover picture.
Shares of the Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia (MSO) empire, which she founded, have quadrupled in value since her sentencing in July.
Company shares were up 3.81 percent Thursday, reaching 33.26 dollars in afternoon trading.
In March 2004, she resigned as the company's a director and "chief creative officer" while accepting a new position of "founding editorial director."
According to Stewart's aides, the empire's founder is very optimistic about her future.
"This year, we usher in spring with an extra measure of gratitude, because the month of March not only marks the vernal equinox on the twentieth and the real start of our Northeast growing season, but also Martha's homecoming," Margaret Roach, editor in chief of Martha Stewart Living, wrote in the magazine's March edition.
Roach said Stewart will plant a garden in an old estate she has been renovating in Bedford.
"I can tell you she is, indeed, ready to get planting, having ordered her seeds and made extensive to-do lists, just as she would have done in any winter," the editor wrote.
Roach also recounted some of Stewart's prison activities.
"The tales were always surprising," she said.
Stewart foraged for wild greens such as dandelion on prison property "to augment the limited fresh vegetable offerings in the diet there," helped decorate the chapel for a memorial service and made microwave meals "with whatever very basic ingredients the commissary had for sale."
She also launched a yoga class that she taught for 10 inmates, spent time crocheting and used old ceramic molds to create a nativity scene for her mother.
Roach even told how Stewart had carried out a yoga pose called "downward-facing dog" in the visitors' room at the prison "from which she seamlessly moved into a headstand." - AFP
The last time you lied, did you go to prison for 5 months?
"A thief must certainly make restitution, but if he has nothing, he must be sold to pay for his theft." - Exodus 22:3
Martha, if guilty of theft, should have been made to repay her debt...not send her to prison. It's absurd.
I can't get that song out of my head
She's leaving on a jet plane
I don't even know WHO Lil Kim is,but I get the N.Y. Post delivered every day and she's going bye bye;off to jail.
Oh! I had not heard that... That changes everything. *shrug*
Prosecution opens case against Kim
Wednesday, March 2, 2005
LIL' KIM ``flat-out lied'' to a grand jury about the 2001 radio station shootout incident in order to protect her former manager and friend, Damion Butler, a federal prosecutor alleged yesterday in the opening statements of her trial in Manhattan. The pint-sized hip-hop princess - forsaking her sparkly pasties and sporting a prim tan suit in court - and her assistant, Monique Dopwell, have both pleaded not guilty to perjury and conspiracy charges. If found guilty, they could spend up to 30 years in jail.
Apparently she left in one of the cars/suvs but they don't know which one
Do they? ROTFLMSO
Jet Airliner is playing on my MP3 player as I type. LMAO!!
They do!
She lied to an FBI agent which is a LITTLE different than lying to your next door neighbor. DUH!
What would be a real hoot is, Martha rings the opening bell on the NYSE tomorrow morning! LOL!!!
There's movement at the airport and CNN goes back to the liveshot of the prison sign. *shakes head*
Color you clueless; she went to prison for lying to the FBI, which, in case you don't know it, is a HUGE deal.
But they'll get to her aboutthe repaying her debt; the stockholders will, for sure.
Shares of the Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia (MSO) empire, which she founded, have quadrupled in value since her sentencing in July.
Company shares were up 3.81 percent Thursday, reaching 33.26 dollars in afternoon trading
--> I'm still waiting for my ENron shares to go up....
It was the second vehicle carrying Martha. They are too dumb to figure it out. lol! They are standing in the freezing cold waiting for a FELON to be released from PRISON. What complete MORONS.
I laughed when they swarmed around that fat guy in a trench coat, grabbing those sheets of paper like a pack of wolves grabbing pieces of meat off a carcass.
Oh oh ... now they have a live shot on the plan
Media hype is the reason her stock went up. Wait until it starts to drop. ROFLOL!
Good Lord they are now showing her PRIVATE PLANE waiting for the FELON while the media wets it's pants.
Unfortunately,it looks as though the SEC may allow her to sign off on it.We just have to wait and see.
As for the rest of your post,obviously you don't understand,nor much like,that there are laws,which are reasonable and should be followed.
Heeeeeeeeey...let's remove ALL of the laws which govern the markets and just see what kind of chaos and problems THAT will cause!
Wow, did not know that this thread had become so busy. Yes, that would be funny. But, I think her own bell might ring if she left her home without permission. :)
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