[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.

[Oldexpat]

Any outcry over the deal will be silenced by congress giving the victims restitution. Those completing the most successfull ponzi deal of all time.