Martha Stewart = jail time
Fri Mar 05, 2004 4:37 pm
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/4429271/
she was found guilty on all counts. Though I wonder if she'll actually go to jail.
she was found guilty on all counts. Though I wonder if she'll actually go to jail.
Re: Martha Stewart = jail time
Fri Mar 05, 2004 4:43 pm
Originally posted by shockwave203
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/4429271/
she was found guilty on all counts. Though I wonder if she'll actually go to jail.
Yes. The US gov't couldn't handle allowing people who are guilty of "corporate irresponsability" just pay a fine and walk away. She'll get jail time - whether or not she'll actually serve it is another story. The sentence could get commuted or suspended, but I have a feeling she'll have a stay in the 'ole stripey hole.
Fri Mar 05, 2004 4:52 pm
I believe this type of thing happens a lot, Martha just got caught. Look at Enron.
Jim
Jim
Fri Mar 05, 2004 5:18 pm
According to the article, she reportedly saved around $51,000 dollars by selling her stock before the price fell.
Am I the only one that thinks that the time, energy, legal wrangling and media attention wasted on this case for a lousy fifty grand is just a little shy of insane?
I realize that the Justice dept. is tring to make a 'point' about white collar crime, but I honestly believe their time would be better spent chasing down some of the bigger fish in the pond. Corporate America is riddled with more corruption and underhanded tactics than most third world dictatorships - can't society do better than to lock up a tight-fisted craft queen?
That being said, I've never liked Martha. I hope some butch prisoner in a bright orange jumpsuit makes her her bitch.
Am I the only one that thinks that the time, energy, legal wrangling and media attention wasted on this case for a lousy fifty grand is just a little shy of insane?
I realize that the Justice dept. is tring to make a 'point' about white collar crime, but I honestly believe their time would be better spent chasing down some of the bigger fish in the pond. Corporate America is riddled with more corruption and underhanded tactics than most third world dictatorships - can't society do better than to lock up a tight-fisted craft queen?
That being said, I've never liked Martha. I hope some butch prisoner in a bright orange jumpsuit makes her her bitch.
Fri Mar 05, 2004 5:32 pm
Fri Mar 05, 2004 6:13 pm
LoL!!!
Fri Mar 05, 2004 6:35 pm
Hmm, you know those floating prisons, couldn't we put her on one of those and then scupper it?
Fri Mar 05, 2004 9:09 pm
Give her the chair 
Fri Mar 05, 2004 11:30 pm
You all know how this is going to turn out, right?
She is going to pay off somebody on the side or pay her way otherwise into freedom...
$$$=do whatever the hell you want!
(just look at O.J. Simpson, or Michael Jackson)
She is going to pay off somebody on the side or pay her way otherwise into freedom...
$$$=do whatever the hell you want!
(just look at O.J. Simpson, or Michael Jackson)
Mon Mar 08, 2004 12:08 am
Would anyone have thought over the years and years of seeing that woman on TV that she would be going to jail.
I second the chair!
I second the chair!
Mon Mar 08, 2004 1:19 am
Even if she did get jail time, it would only be in club fed..
They need to stick her somewhere where this is the view out the only window in the whole place.
They need to stick her somewhere where this is the view out the only window in the whole place.
Mon Mar 08, 2004 11:31 pm
Originally posted by Colonel Savage
Am I the only one that thinks that the time, energy, legal wrangling and media attention wasted on this case for a lousy fifty grand is just a little shy of insane?
That is alot of money to me