No longer in need of assumed innocence, that bitch is guilty.
NEW YORK (AP) - With an investigation looming, Martha Stewart sat down at her assistant's computer and altered a record of a message left by her stockbroker about ImClone Systems stock, the assistant testified Tuesday.
Stewart immediately stood up and ordered the message restored to its original wording, Ann Armstrong said.
The original message read: "Peter Bacanovic thinks ImClone is going to start trading downward." It reflected a call by Bacanovic on Dec. 27, 2001, the day Stewart sold her 3,928 shares in the company - and the day before the company announced a negative decision from government regulators about an ImClone cancer drug.
Armstrong testified that Stewart saw the message on Jan. 31, 2002, and replaced it with the words: "Peter Bacanovic re imclone."
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"She instantly stood up, still standing at my desk, and told me to put it back to the way it was," the assistant testified at Stewart's stock-fraud trial in Manhattan federal court.