The witch returns!
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
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.
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Had you read my first reply then you might not have typed the above. What I was saying is that having a bunch of laws, be that against lying to the government, smoking dope, using your land as you see fit, etc. that many people do not see as crimes has lowered the stigma attached to being a felon. I did not comment on whether people should obey the law and work to change them etc. I am just saying that having more and more law so that you turn more an more people into felons reduces the stigma to being a felon and that is unfortunate.
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Heeeeeeeeey...let's remove ALL of the laws which govern the markets and just see what kind of chaos and problems THAT will cause!
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I know you Democrats don't trust markets to work without the government sticking its nose in. This website however is called FREErepublic. So you should not be surprised to find people here sympathetic to FREE markets, FREE exchange and who do not have great fear that people being free to exchange as they wish will cause chaos. You will find more suppport for your view that government should regulate the market on Democrat Underground.
By 6 a.m., the political pundits will be touting Martha for '08.
[At the rate they keep tossing names around.]
What's a mod? Whatever.....I'll be one. Don't go away mad, just go away. How's that?
Part of the Martha Stewart Collection.
Now available at K-Mart.
"the laws covering perjury and the insider trading of a member of the board of the NYSE?"
How is it right to put a woman in jail for 5 months for lying and then require the taxpayer to pay for the whole deal?
This deal was worthy of a fine, not jail time.
If Martha "bilked" someone out of big money, she should have been required to make reparation.
Nonsense. She shouldn't be paid for bilking someone.
I'm going to stay...just for you, Jrabbit.
I hate to say it but the woman got jail time ...its a bit late to argue about it
The witch returns!
I don't want to; I want to tell you to.
Good night......I'm going to bed with Anne Bird's book!
Keith Bennett, WV - his telephone number is the same as the following...
http://www.rayscampground.com
Now I'm crushed....because I'm leaving. Parting is such sweet sorrow......
"She shouldn't be paid for bilking someone."
I didn't suggest that she should.
I just can't bring myself to say that I give a sh1t....
What do you think reparations are? You are the one who suggested that sort of nonsense.
Oh come on, I will give you 2 cents to care? :)
LMAO! You have gift with words. That sums it up for me too.
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