Martha Stewart...What Am I Missing?

Bush did it first.

Martha did her time, so why not just let her be.

For a Math Man you evidently don't understand Big Time. The Big Time corporate thieves are still free, and their crime was a couple of years before Martha's.

Maybe what people "get" is that it was a diversion from Kenny Boy and Co., and small potatos by comparison.

Yup!

Rich, creamy scallop potatos made with real cream drawn from the finest Connecticut dairy and aged cheddar flown in from Wisconsin... But, small potatos nontheless.

I agree with squinney; Martha's crime was small compared to the crooks of Enron and Worldcom, but they haven't paid anything close to proportional of what MS paid. Especially, considering this World of Bush where he chimes the "equality" and "democracy" song so often. This sad man of a president pays women working in his administration 78 percent of what he pays the men. All his talk is BS, but women seem to support this idiot. Just don't ask me why.

Another Yup!

they originally investigated Martha for insider trading, and for dumping stock.

It turns out she did not commit insider trading.

Stock dumping? When Martha was sentenced, the stock she "dumped" was worth MORE than when she "dumped" it.

You don't "dump" stock which goes UP in value, ans ImClone did.

What Martha went to jail for was lying about a phone call she made. She was afraid it would make her 'i]look[/i] guilty, so she lied about it to investigators.

that is what they got her for. Not insider trading, nor dumping stock. She did not do those things.

She lied to investigators about making a phone call.


And get this-if she told the investigators she made the call, nothing would have happened to her. The phone call was legal.

But lying that she did not make that legal phone call is what got her sent to prison.

Usually, when you go after someone for something big, if it turns out that they did nothing wrong in that regard they drop the investigation.

Here, when they found the reason for the investigation-the "insider trading" -was not acrime, they just looked for something to put her behind bars. If she were not Martha Stewart, Famous Person, they never would have prosecuted.

kelt, All the detail of the why's and wherefore's doesn't mean a hill of beans when compared to the crooks of Enron, Worldcom, the S&L ripoff, and other fraud perpetrated by it's officers and CEOs.

Well, lets all be greatful that she's out of prison, just in time for the Easter presentations