Martha Update
Martha Stewart has been found guilty of covering up a crime the government couldn’t prove she committed:
Martha Stewart was convicted Friday of obstructing justice and lying to the government about a superbly timed stock sale, a devastating verdict that probably means prison for the woman who epitomizes meticulous homemaking and gracious living.
Update: Doh! So close to Instalanche. I am now a reader.
March 5th, 2004 at 3:33 pm
I’m glad the government is finally going to put these dangerous criminals behind bars.
Now, somebody straighten me out if I got this wrong, but wasn’t one of the charges against her that she tried to manipulate the price of her own company’s stock by asserting that she was innocent of insider trading on the Imclone stock? Maybe that was the charge that the judge threw out.
March 6th, 2004 at 12:55 am
My best day was when Glenn referred to me as a a “very disturbed reader” 🙂
March 6th, 2004 at 4:52 pm
Reason on Martha
Reason Magazine takes it’s weird cowboy libertarianism over the top. In the latest Hit & Run, they deride the SEC as a cesspool, the investigation into Martha Stewart as a witch hunt and cl…
March 8th, 2004 at 6:06 am
I’ve been working on the Railroading
Drudge reports that a Palm Beach county judge was removed from the bench in 2002 for being addicted to Oxycontin. Despite being in the same jurisdiction and under very similar circumstances, Palm Beach prosecutors have yet to conduct a doctor…