MARTHA STEWART SAID TO SEE POLITICAL CONSPIRACY; REPUBLICANS PROBE 'SEX LIFE'

DrudgeReport.com ^ | August 18, 2002 | Matt Drudge

[ladyinred]

Oh PLEASE!!!! When I saw just the headline before I figured this would be Bush's fault!
Raise your hand if you are as sick and tired of liberal liars as I am!

[EmmaPeel]

Both Martha and her daughter "dated" Sam Waksal. She claims that he was almost her son-in-law. It's just another sore point with her daughter.

[ovrtaxt]

I think that she was rumored to be an ex-lover of Waksal. That might explain a lot behind this accusation.

Now Paul, that visual is about as bad as Ayn Rand and Greenspan.

[SamKeck]

If there's anything more needed to demonstrate that La Stewart (down deep a troubled, unhappy woman) is a ticking whack job, this is it. The investigating committee should haul her former husband in to explain to them why he had to post guards around the church premisis on the day when he got remarried. (Reason: The newlyweds were afraid that she'd show up, invade the church, and wreck the ceremony. No kiddng.)

[sultan88]

Barf. Gag.

Flicker, please show this article to your Missus.

[blam]

"Democrats floated this. They are going after Martha to hide what Winnick and Rubin did."

Bingo. We should just ignore anything Martha says. Where's RUBIN?

[Mudboy Slim]

BWAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

This stoooopid bee-ahhhtch is making a horrible mistiake alignin' herslf with the RATS!!

JMHO...MUD

[ladyinred]

Nobody goes to war like this, nobody but Clinton.

Those were my thoughts. It seems to me she is getting her talking points from the Clintons. They think that America adores Martha, so if they can demonize Pubbies yet again about her, it helps at election time. PURE EVIL!

[big bad easter bunny]

Is Lying to the FBI, breaking SEC laws political? How so?

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

WHEN IS ROBERT RUBIN GOING TO BE CALLED BEFORE THE SENATE?

Probably after Hades approaches 32F.

[Cold Heat]

LOL!!!!!!Another one!!!!!

Ross Perot redux!

[1234]

bet 'the people' would be interested in her SEX LIFE-LET'S HAVE DISCLOSURE-NOW.

[ASDFGHJK]

so...why did they treat Mr. Waksal like a criminal, hauling him off in cuffs before his family and a bevy of oggling reporters (repleat with rolling cameras)? Was that politically motivated? Perhaps the nailed him just to get at her. And I suppose the KMart bankruptcy was part of the plan, too. (/sarcasm)

[gcruse]

Yes, her lawyer appeared, though. Martha has yet to show her face. You know, if she had copped a plea to the insider trading, a fine would have been the extent of punishment. Obstruction of justice and providing false testimony are going to prove her undoing. Like the man said, "Meet Leona." Maybe Lizzie Grubman will drop by to see the girls when she visits cousin Jack, late of Salomon Smith Barney,

BY the way, speaking of Lizzie,

RIVERHEAD, N.Y. — Celebrity publicist Lizzie Grubman did not appear in court Friday but her lawyers did, meeting with prosecutors and a newly-assigned judge behind closed doors.

None of the lawyers would say what was discussed in the 33-minute conference in the case against Grubman, who is accused of being drunk when she backed an SUV into a crowd of 16 people outside a nightclub in Southampton last summer.

Judge Michael Mullen continued the case for one week and sent Grubman's lawyers and a prosecutor away with instructions not to discuss what went on during their meeting in chambers.

Mullen may have been trying to avoid a repeat of what happened when Grubman last appeared in court: a spontaneous, tearful public apology to the 16 people who received injuries in the crash outside the Conscience Point Inn on July 7, 2001.

Special prosecutor Joy Watson — who recently has said she is prepared to try Grubman on charges that include assault, drunken driving and leaving the scene of an accident — declined Friday to say whether Mullen fashioned a plea agreement for Grubman's consideration during the conference.

According to published reports, Watson wanted Judge John Mullin — who got off the case because he is retiring — to decide what punishment Grubman deserves if she pleads guilty to any of the charges to avoid a trial.

"We had a conference and it was adjourned until next Friday. That's as much as I can say," Watson said as she left the courtroom.

Grubman's lawyers, Edward Burke Jr. and Stephen Scaring, also brushed off questions about the meeting with the judge. Burke, however, said before the session that the defense intended to ask Mullen to act on long-pending motions for dismissal and to suppress statements Grubman allegedly made to police.

Grubman was not required to appear in court Friday, the first time Mullen met with the defense and prosecution about the case. And unlike Grubman's circus-like appearance July 16, only a few reporters and just one camera crew showed up this time.

So what did happen in chambers?

The silence by the prosecutor and defense lawyers and the relatively short continuance of the case for one week could be indicators that Mullen forced Watson to put her last, best offer on the table and is giving Grubman one week to accept it or go to trial.

"She is expected to be here next Friday," Watson said.

Grubman, 31, is being sued by many of the 16 people injured in the crash. According to the lawsuits, Grubman backed her father's $70,000 Mercedes SUV into a crowd of people waiting to get into the nightclub just moments after a bouncer asked her to move the vehicle from a fire lane.

[Paul Atreides]

Hmmmmm....I wonder if the Clinton War Room is helping Martha, in exchange for an extra fat contribution to Her Thighness.

[CounterCounterCulture]

Ditto that.

[tubebender]

Maathu will do just fine if they don't cut off her prozac...

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

Sure, it's all politics. The fact that maybe she violated the LAW has nothing to do with it. It depends on what the definition of "sell order" is. And after all, it was her own private financial business. This is all a political witch hunt. She should be left alone to attend to the peoples' business.

[glock rocks]

This stoooopid bee-ahhhtch is making a horrible mistiake alignin' herslf with the RATS!!

mud, mud, mud... she's been tryin to get rid of that stinky clinton smell for years...

otoh, hell, she's from the hamptons... she has people have sex for her.

[Thebaddog]

How would you like to hear style suggestions from the old girl for your style? At least she wouldn't try to wrap plaid around the old flag pole.