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To: Liz
I didn't find this posted anywhere.

Note Appears to Back Stewart
But Investigators Still Have Doubts About Her Explanation

By Ben White
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, July 2, 2002; Page E03

NEW YORK, July 1 -- Merrill Lynch & Co. has turned over a document to congressional investigators on which Martha Stewart's broker wrote the figure "$60," an apparent reference to the price at which he planned to sell Stewart's shares in ImClone Systems Inc., a congressional official said yesterday.

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15 posted on 07/07/2002 6:05:44 AM PDT by kcvl
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To: kcvl
I'm pretty sure I read this WP story on FR.

The story claims the $60 notation will not exculpate MS.

20 posted on 07/07/2002 9:19:39 AM PDT by Liz
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To: kcvl
"Congressional investigators, however, do not believe the document exonerates Stewart, the official said. That's because Bacanovic's assistant, Douglas Faneuil, told Merrill Lynch lawyers that no "stop-loss" order to sell the shares at $60 ever existed and that Bacanovic had urged him to lie and say one did."

Above from your link.
Here is the smoking gun, it will be interesting to see if it gets "extinquished".


22 posted on 07/07/2002 9:27:08 AM PDT by dtel
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