Old Weird Ward
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Friday, June 06, 2003
- - - - - Martha Stewart Weirdness - - - - -
OK, I'm gonna confess, sorta - I am not a Martha Stewart fan. I find her to be quite annoying, and I'd quite happily use her magazine to line my parakeet's birdcage, if I had a parakeet.
But now, from the Federal Prosecutor, comes this (courtesy AP):
"Inserting an unusual twist into their indictment of the domestic diva, prosecutors charge that she committed a crime when she stood up in public last summer and denied engaging in insider trading.
...it was the charge of securities fraud, placed near the end of the 41-page indictment, that surprised many legal watchers.
The charge cited a speech Stewart gave at an investors conference in New York on June 19, 2002, a week after ImClone founder Samuel Waksal, her longtime friend, was arrested on fraud charges."
This sounds like a "SLT" (Stupid Lawyer Trick) to me. Since when is it a crime to proclaim your innocence in a public forum? Is it illegal to plead Not Guilty in court?
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