[dervish]

She was not convicted of insider trading. They had no case on that. They got her on perjury because she said she did not remember. She got a very raw deal.

[Polynikes]

Maybe I phrased it wrong. I always wondered why she was hit so hard. Apparently it was the second go around for her and questionable business dealings. She was a broker from roughly 1967 - early 70’s who left the business to “spend more time with her family”. It involved Levitz Furniture stock.
http://www.madcowprod.com/index48bb.html

[RightOnTheLeftCoast]

"She got a very raw deal."

Yes. You are correct, her faulty memory got her lodged in a perjury trap. Very much like Scooter Libby.

Libby, of course, was a Republican tied to Dick Cheney. The technical term for that is "toast." Stewart and Leona Helmsley were guilty of the vile crime of being successful, somewhat nasty businesswomen (okay, maybe more than 'somewhat' in Helmsley's case). I have no doubt that sexism played as big a role in their convictions as seething Bush-hatred did in Libby's.