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Martha's offering up serving of humble pie (Stewart begs for mercy)
New York Daily News ^ | Jan. 25, 2003 | Greg Smith

Posted on 01/25/2003 8:17:43 AM PST by mountaineer

Martha is begging for mercy.

Martha Stewart sent her lawyers for a personal sitdown with Manhattan U.S. Attorney Jim Comey this week to ask him not to file criminal charges against her, the Daily News has learned.

The private face-to-face meeting took place Thursday in Comey's downtown Manhattan offices overlooking the Brooklyn Bridge, according to three sources familiar with the matter.

Two sources said Stewart's hired guns, including high-profile lawyer Robert Morvillo, made the last-ditch move after federal securities regulators warned Stewart they were ready to file civil charges against her.

Punished enough

The lawyers tried to convince Comey that it would be sufficient punishment for Stewart to pay a civil fine and that filing criminal charges - given how little she gained from the deal - would be overkill, the sources said.

Defense lawyers often request a meeting with prosecutors when they fear or know their client is about to be charged.

(Excerpt) Read more at mostnewyork.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Government; US: New York
KEYWORDS: goodthing; insidertrading; marthastewart; securities
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To: mountaineer
Greed knows no party.....

Her lawyer behind the scenes is Ken Starr. N'uff said?

21 posted on 01/25/2003 9:08:47 AM PST by blackdog
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To: mountaineer
The lawyers tried to convince Comey that it would be sufficient punishment for Stewart to pay a civil fine and that filing criminal charges - given how little she gained from the deal - would be overkill, the sources said.

Deal?!? What Deal? There was no deal. Remember? This was all just a Vast Right Wing conspiracy poking into her private sex life, and she would be clearly shown to be innocent of any wrong doing. Remember?

I'm of the opinion that these celebs and pols that degrade others reputations in effort to hide their own rapidly revealing lack of integrity should be forced to eat their words when they later admit guilt and beg for mercy.

22 posted on 01/25/2003 9:13:17 AM PST by MichiganMan (TurboTax: Now combining the fun of Microsoft Product Activation with the wamth of Big Brother.)
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To: MichiganMan
Me thinks Martha didn't have a sex life to "poke" into. Hard to warm up with a block of stepford ice......
23 posted on 01/25/2003 9:19:08 AM PST by blackdog
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To: mountaineer
I thought she said she didn't do anything wrong?
24 posted on 01/25/2003 9:20:45 AM PST by b4its2late
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To: mountaineer; SamKeck; zarf; billorites; basil; onedoug
Every few years the powers-that-be trot out a high-profile someone to financially destroy, to show all us Little People that justice is blind and evenly applied (ha ha), and that earning lots of money after working 30 years for it is really a drag...dangerous, even.

So we should be happy and relieved to be broke, but honest citizens who are actually lucky to file the Short Tax Form.

I think they miscalculated on this one. Leona Helmsly was a pig. Stewart, though imperial, has a blue-colar upbringing and worked for and earned every cent she made. And did it on her own after her husband ran off with her assistant.

Women I've talked to about this think she's getting railroaded because:

1. she's a woman;

2. she's not a blue-blooded woman;

3. she's an easy target;

4. she's involved in "women's work."

Do any of you honestly think every single mover and shaker doesn't get those calls DAILY by friends to buy or sell?

The government is going to quietly drop this case because the men going after her have wives and mothers who stand in line at the grocery store and buy her magazines and watch her shows and appreciate her making "women's work" more enjoyable.

25 posted on 01/25/2003 9:20:48 AM PST by Dr. Eckleburg
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To: bellagio_jo
Thanks for the interesting links. See my post #25.

People are quick to react, forgetting it's all gamed.

26 posted on 01/25/2003 9:26:50 AM PST by Dr. Eckleburg
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To: FoxGirl

27 posted on 01/25/2003 9:29:10 AM PST by FoxGirl (....trying again / tongue in cheek)
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To: Dr. Eckleburg
See post 13....that willl be fine by me.
28 posted on 01/25/2003 9:31:26 AM PST by zarf
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To: blackdog
Martha's not stepford, or this wouldn't be happening.

Pammy Harriman was stepford. The Mitford sisters. The Stillman trio.

Stepfords don't get prosecuted; they get married.

29 posted on 01/25/2003 9:31:34 AM PST by Dr. Eckleburg
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To: FoxGirl

30 posted on 01/25/2003 9:35:28 AM PST by FoxGirl (/ tongue in cheek (....trying again...will give up after this attempt, i promise!)
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To: zarf; StriperSniper
banned from serving as an officer of an exchange listed company.

That makes sense.

Perhaps she was mucking up the votes in her billion-dollar board room.

When the money's that big, the real control is bigger.

31 posted on 01/25/2003 9:40:38 AM PST by Dr. Eckleburg
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To: Dr. Eckleburg
Women I've talked to about this think she's getting railroaded because: 1. she's a woman; 2. she's not a blue-blooded woman; 3. she's an easy target; 4. she's involved in "women's work."

It's possible that Stewart is being made an example by prosecutors, a la Leona Helmsley, but there's no way I, as a woman, will believe it is because she bakes cookies and makes lovely centerpieces. While her buddy Waksal is the real scoundrel who passed on inside info to a select bunch of friends, it's possible that Martha acted on that info by dumping her stock (although it's also possible, as she claims, she already had a "sell" order in with broker).

Martha already has a reputation as a prickley, imperious person who thinks she's above the law (ask her neighbors), and that doesn't help.

32 posted on 01/25/2003 9:42:01 AM PST by mountaineer
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To: mountaineer
Prickley and imperious should not send you to jail.

Unless another agenda is at play. Then any excuse works.

33 posted on 01/25/2003 10:04:37 AM PST by Dr. Eckleburg
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To: Dr. Eckleburg
Please note I did not say Martha should be sent to jail because she is widely perceived to be a witch. Obviously, she should be prosecuted only if there's evidence she broke the law.

But if she ever does go to jail, it sure as heck won't be because she's Suzie Homemaker to many American women, either.

34 posted on 01/25/2003 10:13:29 AM PST by mountaineer
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To: mountaineer
Suzie-homemaker

I can see why you'd think that, but consider how many women watch and read and listen to her.

Enough to take her first book and turn it into a billion-dollar business.

My point is there are more Susie-homemakers out there than we're told (by people like Hillary, etc.) who take their lives and families as seriously as those men in boardrooms take their Saville Row suits.

And that's a good thing.

35 posted on 01/25/2003 10:31:07 AM PST by Dr. Eckleburg
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36 posted on 01/25/2003 11:58:05 AM PST by mountaineer
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To: bellagio_jo
Thank you. The typical freeper attitude is all too often that the rule of justice shouldn't apply to democrats.
37 posted on 01/25/2003 12:03:10 PM PST by Austin Willard Wright
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To: mountaineer
I don't know how long she can be this humble...
39 posted on 01/25/2003 12:57:45 PM PST by Blue Highway
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To: Dr. Eckleburg
Do any of you honestly think every single mover and shaker doesn't get those calls DAILY by friends to buy or sell?

Possibly, but they would be the more foolish ones. Most of the people that I know who have real money, have their estates and/or affairs under some form of professional management. When the odd solicitation call does sometimes get through to them the normal response is "Talk to so-and-so at such-and-such about it, he handles my affairs."

40 posted on 01/25/2003 1:44:12 PM PST by SamKeck
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