martha stewart wants to go to jail

[amietron]

http://www.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,10781680%255E13780,00.html

Martha Stewart wants to go to jail
From correspondents in New York
September 16, 2004

US lifestyle diva Martha Stewart said today she would seek to serve her five-month prison sentence for obstruction of justice as soon as possible "to put this nightmare behind me and get on with my life."

Stewart, convicted earlier this year on charges stemming from a dodgy stock deal, said she would ask the judge in the case to assign her to prison, without waiting for her appeal to be heard.

"I suppose the best word to use for this very harsh and difficult decision is finality," Stewart, who has built a multimillion-dollar business empire, told reporters in New York.

"So I have decided to serve my sentence now, to put this nightmare behind me and get on with my life and living as soon as possible."

Stewart said her lawyers "remain very confident in the strength of my appeal" and would continue to pursue the effort to overturn the conviction.

The move appeared aimed at ending the uncertainty weighing on her company, Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, even though she has left the board and the post of chief executive.

She said she would ask to serve the five months at the federal prison in Danbury, Connecticut, "which is nearest to my home and close enough so my 90-year-old mother will be able to visit me," but acknowledged that it was possible she may be sent elsewhere.

"I also hope it will be possible to begin serving my sentence in the next few weeks - so I will be out of prison as early as next March."

Stewart, 62, and her former broker, Peter Bacanovic, were convicted in March of conspiracy, obstruction of justice and making false statements over Stewart's sale of nearly 4,000 shares in the biotechnology company ImClone Systems.

She did not face criminal charges of insider trading, but of thwarting the probe into the questionable trade.

At her trial, prosecutors charged that Stewart was tipped off by Bacanovic to sell the ImClone stock in late 2001, just before a government announcement about an ImClone drug sent the share price plummeting.

Stewart and her broker had argued that they had a pre-existing agreement to sell the stock if the price dropped below $US60 ($85.70) a share.

poor pooooooor martha.

[bluemonq]

http://money.cnn.com/2004/09/15/news/newsmakers/martha/index.htm
The stock (MSO: up $0.12 to $11.26, Research, Estimates) jumped on the announcement, as investors bet Stewart's move would eventually help her company.

::shrug::

[yoMAMA]

keep her there.

[amietron]

keep her there.
haha. maybe she can makeover the cells or something. teach her inmates a thing or two about color coordination. too bad she won't be able to carve a pumpkin or decorate a christmas tree if she goes. poor martha.

[truMp]

http://money.cnn.com/2004/09/15/news/newsmakers/martha/index.htm

::shrug::

omg i knew this was going to happen; if only pops had let me invested in stocks.

haha. maybe she can makeover the cells or something. teach her inmates a thing or two about color coordination. too bad she won't be able to carve a pumpkin or decorate a christmas tree if she goes. poor martha.

Martha is the regulator; she's a dai-lo.

[Yeahman]

If ever there was a sensational headline that totally misrerpesents the facts...

[rice cracker]

Martha's crimes are nothing compared to what goes on everyday. Enron? Martha made chump change compared to most embezzlers. If it had been millions of dollars, I could underdstand, but she literally saved herself just a few hundred thousand, not even that, I think. But yeah, she's the big bad. Skewer her. People that take malicious glee in her being sentenced make me sick. What the hell did she do to you?

[TB4000]

Sorry, but I never cared for Martha's holier than thou attitude, whereas she feels she's entitled to behave however she wants due to celebrity. She probably needs this little time out.

[nola]

When is Ken Lay going to prison, if ever?

[Deadpool]

She needs to STFU and go through the same legal process as everyone else. She has some sort of "Queen of the world" complex.

[nola]

Ken Lay has a King of the World complex and should be locked up for life.

[Mr.Lum]

I don't care. Make it so if she ever leaves Connecticut, she can never return. I'm sick of seeing her on national and local. It's bad enough I have to be "on alert" about Mormon abductees from Utah in Idaho. WFT is that? I don't like seeing her in the morning, midday, and night time. Move her ass to New Jersey. Then I'd only see her on national.

[applehead]

I don't care. Make it so if she ever leaves Connecticut, she can never return. I'm sick of seeing her on national and local. It's bad enough I have to be "on alert" about Mormon abductees from Utah in Idaho. WFT is that? I don't like seeing her in the morning, midday, and night time. Move her ass to New Jersey. Then I'd only see her on national.

so you don't live in fiji??

[yoMAMA]

Martha's crimes are nothing compared to what goes on everyday. Enron? Martha made chump change compared to most embezzlers. If it had been millions of dollars, I could underdstand, but she literally saved herself just a few hundred thousand, not even that, I think. But yeah, she's the big bad. Skewer her. People that take malicious glee in her being sentenced make me sick. What the hell did she do to you?

Certainly we need to nail those Enron bastards.

cough {California energy crisis} cough

But that doesn't mean we should let Martha off the hook, either.

Also, that's the argument my dad makes when we talk about the Martha Stewart affair....he's a big MS fan while I'm for getting her the max.

:wink:

[Yeahman]

Pretty interesting sentiments here. A psychological question: Why do we enjoy watching rich people fall from their towers? I'm not Martha fan and I believe that the ruling and sentence was fair but I've never seen such a display of pleasure to see punishment doled out over a questionable and, in relation to other injustices, minor crime.

[yoMAMA]

Pretty interesting sentiments here. A psychological question: Why do we enjoy watching rich people fall from their towers? I'm not Martha fan and I believe that the ruling and sentence was fair but I've never seen such a display of pleasure to see punishment doled out over a questionable and, in relation to other injustices, minor crime.

I think it was the made for TV movie that did her in....

:tongue:

[bluemonq]

Pretty interesting sentiments here. A psychological question: Why do we enjoy watching rich people fall from their towers? I'm not Martha fan and I believe that the ruling and sentence was fair but I've never seen such a display of pleasure to see punishment doled out over a questionable and, in relation to other injustices, minor crime.
maybe because deep down people are jealous of her fame and fortune? there was a psych experiment i think at stanford where there was this simple casino game. one of the interesting rules was that you can make other people lose some money... if you part with a bit of yours too. or they could get more money. more often than not, they chose to take money from other people...

[Mr.Lum]

so you don't live in fiji??

I live in Fiji as much as kuilong lives in South Africa.

I live in a suburb of New Haven Connecticut.

[TB4000]

maybe because deep down people are jealous of her fame and fortune? there was a psych experiment i think at stanford where there was this simple casino game. one of the interesting rules was that you can make other people lose some money... if you part with a bit of yours too. or they could get more money. more often than not, they chose to take money from other people...
No, she just has this whole, "I'm better than you but won't openly admit even though I feel I am" type of thing going on, and if she gets sentenced for something as menial as a stock tip, yes, I shall take joy in it, petty as that is.

[Yeahman]

Maybe it's not the answer, but the question that needs to dig deeper. There are very few people I know in personally whom I dislike. But there are lots of celebrities that I dislike. What is it about celebrities/rich people that causes us to have such strong feelings towards them? Is it deep rooted jealousy? Or maybe because they have bigger accomplishments that we can judge them on? Why do we care?
Wouldn't you take some joy in watching Joe Millionare (not the guy on TV) getting busted for insider trading? Would you take the same joy in watching Average Joe getting busted?

[xdlin22]

she be folding the towels there

[Yeahman]

You think it would be possible to get video footage of her in jail like during visitations? Those would be priceless.

Oh and how do you like the banner in my new sig? It was between this and an "Anybody but Bush" banner.

[applehead]

I live in Fiji as much as kuilong lives in South Africa.

I live in a suburb of New Haven Connecticut.

oh okay. because i remember reading one of your
posts about picking up girls at b&n. *groan*
and i thought. wow. they have barnes and noble
there?
:biggrin:

Maybe it's not the answer, but the question that needs to dig deeper. There are very few people I know in personally whom I dislike. But there are lots of celebrities that I dislike. What is it about celebrities/rich people that causes us to have such strong feelings towards them? Is it deep rooted jealousy? Or maybe because they have bigger accomplishments that we can judge them on? Why do we care?
Wouldn't you take some joy in watching Joe Millionare (not the guy on TV) getting busted for insider trading? Would you take the same joy in watching Average Joe getting busted?

very good question.
well, they're so much in the public eye.
you already feel like you know so much
about them. they leave themselves open
for scrutinization.
and everyone you talk to knowa things about
certain celebrities. so it's a safe topic to
discuss in regards to that.
i care because some of these celebrities have
a lot of influence on us consciously, sub-consciously whatever,
whether we like it or not.
and it's true. with certain celebrities. i just don't care.

[Mr.Lum]

they have barnes and noble
there?


Haha