[budwiesest]

I heard when Martha worked Wall Street, she gave 'buy' advice to investors of a company's stock she knew was about to tank (bankruptcy) while collecting nice, fat commissions.

Also, that while running a catering business, her help received no tips as she 'paid them well'.

Add to this the fact that you can't even see one of her eyes (the left one, I think) and I conclude you have one seriously bent (twisted) lady here.

I'd not want to be alongside this woman in a rescue attempt where the ladder being sent into the well we unfortunately found ourselves' trapped, was the only way out. My opinion of Martha is that she'd try to off my ass in any way possible to assure her ascent to freedom, all the while failing to appreciate my earlier offer to let her go first.

The saying, 'good guys finish last' might be an understatement in Martha's case.

[nopardons]

Martha got her broker license sometime in 1968.No well known,up and up firm would hire her.Through a friend of a friend of her husband (I always love the people who say she got where she got all on her own;she NEVER has! LOL),she finally got hired by what is commonly referred to as a "boiler room" and yes,did indeed,strong arm family members,friends and strangers to buy worthless stock...stocks that she KNEW were no good and getting worse by the minute.

That company ran into trouble with the law and the SEC,but Martha was gone ( yes,she knew it was coming!) before the partners and the few remaining brokers went under indictment.

She road off her partners,in both of her catering business and they were the ones who had originally begun them;one in N.Y.C. and the other in Westport.

From the beginning,Martha took over someone else's stuff...never doing it on her own,nor without help. This goes as far back as her win for GLAMOUR Magazines contest for the best dressed college girls,when she won,by wearing OTHER GIRL'S CLOTHES,THAT SHE BEGGED AND WHEEDLED OUT OF THEM !