[A CA Guy]

Really? Now that I didn't know at all.

Was she already on the stock exchange when she did that or was the appointment to the exchange AFTER the crime as well?

[nopardons]

She conned her way into a boiler room operation (the head of the firm was a friend of a friend,or some such and Martha wore a skirt up to here and a blouse open down to there,to get the job and that outfit was also how she sold strangers worthless stocks!) and sold rotten,worthless stock to family,friends, and strangers. This was looooooooooooooooooooooooooooooong before she moved to Westport and got into the SECOND catering business.

So,though Martha has NEVER owned a seat on,nor was a broker or a trader on the NYSE,she WAS asked to be one of the members of the board,many.many.many decades AFRER her first criminal activities as a stock broker for a boiler room. She was never charged,the first time,so her record was sort of "clean".