Martha Stewart + Jail

UltimateVG · Postby **UltimateVG** » Fri Jul 16, 2004 2:32 pm

Well, according to NBC, everyone's (least) favorite domestic goddess will be in prison for the greater part of 5 months. On top of this, she has to face 2 years of probation and a $30,000 fine which is just the tip of the iceberg for her losses. <a href='http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=s ... ha_stewart' target='_blank'>http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=s ... stewart</a>

Miles E Traysandor · Postby **Miles E Traysandor** » Fri Jul 16, 2004 4:18 pm

*Yawns* Since I'm not a woman, and I'm not uber-rich, I could care less about this. She does deserve some time in the slammer for what she's done though... I'm sure she'll still have enough money left that when she gets out she could live comfortably for some time... Edit: $30, 000 fine for Martha Stewart? That's freaking chump change for her... make it a couple of million at least.

UltimateVG · Postby **UltimateVG** » Fri Jul 16, 2004 4:20 pm

Yes, I wonder if KMart will start selling soap on a rope after this...

Zylo · Postby **Zylo** » Fri Jul 16, 2004 4:48 pm

I can't imagine Martha Stewart in prison... "Today, we're gonna decorate this drab prison cell and make it festive for the summer with only cigarettes, needles, knives, and old food snuck out of the cafeteria! Now if you just take the mystery green jello and mold it into a cute little centerpiece and add smokes like this, you can add cheer to the most drab prison meal!"

norsenerd · Postby **norsenerd** » Fri Jul 16, 2004 6:38 pm

That's it. IT's not even at a real prison, it's home confinement. Maybe if white collor crooks got a taste of real prison then they would be mroe fearfull of comiting crimes.

Ozymandias · Postby **Ozymandias** » Fri Jul 16, 2004 7:19 pm

What did she do? I haven't heard of the woman before.

UltimateVG · Postby **UltimateVG** » Fri Jul 16, 2004 7:55 pm

Well, she used to be popular with the old women who did nothing but cook and gardening. She has/had a line of decorative junk at a diminishing chain of stores called "KMart". She got into some legal trouble over some stock market crap with some inside trading or something.

Ozymandias · Postby **Ozymandias** » Fri Jul 16, 2004 9:21 pm

If it hurt innocent people financially, then take a percentage of her capital, not an amount. If it didnt then I don't think that she'll do it again, so why waste loads of taxpayers money chasing her for more?

Salad Man · Postby **Salad Man** » Fri Jul 16, 2004 10:58 pm

Instead of prison or whatever, they should send her to my house and make her clean up and stuff.

norsenerd · Postby **norsenerd** » Fri Jul 16, 2004 11:34 pm

After some more reflection and listining to the NPR report I realize that it's 5 monts in prisin, plus an adition 5 months house arest, while anohter 19 months under aditional probation, with the $30,00 fine. I am disgusted by both how well Martha Stewert got cought and her reaction. She shoudl relize when she's been given a gift. Also herr statment: "What was a small personal matter became over the last two and a half years an almost fatal circus event of unprecedented proportions spreading like oil over a vast landscape, even around the world." It may be a small perosnal matter but when you accept the good of celebratyhood you also have to accept the bad and have yet to know how it has been fatal. Also It is NOT of unprecedented proportions. Both absolutly and comparativly there have been bigger scandals, involving bigger names, and involving more money, with more debate, action, reaction, and even far reaching historical consequinces that this will not have. The fact that she borught up oil makes Standard Oil one of them. Martha still has he empire intact and it will nto be going away, and neither will she. Martha is just playing a game to even further her empire. This is all a circuss. Maybe the legal system shoudl take more action liek dismantaling sever of her financial holdings seing how she has abused them. THer abuse efected lots of investers, both large and small and afected more then oen company. The Judge has hander her a VERY big gift and she is wanting more. Teh wealthy are often soem fo the most gready in the planet and MArtha Stewart is one of the greadist of them and boy she can realy do it well!!!

Softpaw · Postby **Softpaw** » Sat Jul 17, 2004 12:53 am

Well, if such people weren't greedy, they probably wouldn't be very wealthy, now would they? If I had that kind of money, I wouldn't have it for long, because I can't resist opportunities to give money to charities and donate my time to help people, even when I can't afford to do so.

Zaaphod · Postby **Zaaphod** » Sat Jul 17, 2004 2:51 am

Martha Stewart should consider herself lucky. The sentence she received is the minimum possible. She could have been sentenced for a lot longer.

VisibilityMissing · Postby **VisibilityMissing** » Sat Jul 17, 2004 3:00 am

How much to have the keys thrown away?

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