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
Mebbie, Mebbie not!
The dummies are frantically scrambling around for converts, why ain't We?
Martha ain't no dummie, She just lacks honest input!
Anyway, do You have any reason not to try? I don't expect I have enough credibility here, to really go outrageous, but, at least, I try to keep My posts constructive.
If You are convinced of victory, "just because", You are really too damned obtuse for Me to mess with.
Must I define "rectal defilade"?
And I just wanted to state that I'm not picking on you...I just think you either haven't thought this all the way through, or you've never lived in an area that has real perps back out on the streets and seen the continuing damage they do once they're out of jail again. :)
-If convicted of a felony and sentenced to incarceration, felon automatically regains the right to vote upon expiration of the maximum time to which he or she was sentenced, or upon discharge from parole, whichever occurs first. -If convicted of a felony but not sentenced to incarceration, or if the sentence was suspended, felon's conviction does not affect the right to vote. |
I started out in catering (after Martha of course)
I have notebooks full of decorating ideas, food presentation, recipes etc.
I'm not in the business any longer due to my husbands death, but I can tell you to be sure and search for the right spot. A B&B can only be successful if there are things for people to do in the area. Your moving around a bit is probably a "good thing" so you will have an idea as to where you wish to ultimately settle.
Keep your dream alive by learning as much as you can beforehand and you will be fine.
This guy won't be forgotten. His sweetheart deal had mere 'components' in it that exceeded first year contracts to coveted NBA rookies. His is a case of lib destruction in high places. Books are going to be written about this character. Trust me.
But with Martha, lib 'goddess' though she may be, the fact is this is all the sentence she got. This was all the judge gave out. She served her time. It's done. She should have gotten more than this slap on the wrist. She should have been seriously sentenced, and was not. But this was her sentence. And she's done her time.
I've seen those. I thought they were an advertisement for conjugal visits.
So, because it's unfair that other people know stuff that you don't, they should go to jail?
Up until about two weeks ago (when I got acknowledged her release date) my tagline was 'FreeMartha.' You wouldn't believe the number of posts/FReepmails I received asking if I was referencing Martha Mitchell or Martha Stewart. I even rec'd one FReepmail saying that he too was a big fan of Martha Quinn (of early MTV)...LOL...there is only one MARTHA!!!
I think you addressed the wrong gringa (or gringo). :)
I'm on the Humble Pie idea.
I beg your pardon, but if you think I advocated rejecting someone joining with us in good faith you are sadly and sorely mistaken.
Why you commence on an incomprehensible rant erroneously assigning to me complacency of victory, is beyond me (well, not really; I have a good idea.) I don't think much of such flights of fancy.
You are plain and simply wrong to make such baseless conclusions.
P.S. for examples of "constructive posts", see "cyncooper". Save your insane attacks for someone who deserves them.
Thank you. Moving has had it's advantages, although I don't have any idea where we could end up eventually. Right now I've starting retaking cake decorating classes, because I'd forgotten some of the basics. Once we moved to England, I discovered antiques and stopped working on cake decorating. Oops!
Sorry to hear about your huband.
Thank you for clearing that up for me. I learned something new.
My best regards.
GOODNIGHT, GRASSHOPPER I reckon You will catch on, given a bit of time! We can only hope, after all!
Shares of the Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia (MSO) empire, which she founded, have quadrupled in value since her sentencing in July.
Wow!! Talk about b*itch slapping the government.
i don't know what you are saying but i am saying you lie to me.i lie to you should be the same standard.i am not anti gov but the same rules should apply to both.if you are making fun of my second grade spelling.if it makes you feel good,it's ok with me.
The lie, if you want to call it that, had to do with the other guys case, not hers.
And it was a misrepresentation that a test was performed personally, when it was apparently mostly done by another lab assistant. He was just taking full responsibility for the test and the legal beagles caught the error and made it into a hill of beans.
Will Eleanor Smeal, Donna Shalala, Hillary Clinton and the like be waiting to celebrate with Stewart? Heh, heh. ...maybe, in the shadows.
A lie on the stand is still perjury, anything else is just Clintonism. At the very least she shoudl get a new trial.
Gads, in no way am I making fun of you. Im afraid then, I didnt understand your post. But in no way was I making fun of you at any time. My apologies to whatever it was you took offence.
That is why the complaint was tossed. The lie as you call it was not pertaining to the verdict and the verdict it was associated with was not hers.
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