Martha Stewart Gets 5 Months in Prison

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NEW YORK - Domestic icon Martha Stewart (news - web sites) was handed a prison term of just five months Friday for lying about a stock sale. After asking the judge for leniency, she emerged defiant from the courthouse to say she was being persecuted and declared, "I'll be back."

I'm not afraid. Not afraid whatsoever. I'm very sorry it had to come to this," she told a crowd of media and supporters afterward, speaking in a strong voice on the courthouse steps.


Stewart also was ordered to serve five months of home confinement and fined $30,000. She was spared an immediate trip to federal prison when U.S. District Court Judge Miriam Goldman Cedarbaum stayed her sentence pending appeal

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Home confinement?!? WTF???!?!?!
 
just goes to show us, If you have enough money you can do anything you want and get by with it.:grrr:
 
How about five months of home confinement, but not able to redecorate anything? Now there's a punishment.
 
NEW YORK — Martha Stewart (search) was ordered Wednesday to serve her sentence at a federal prison in Alderson, W.Va., nicknamed "Camp Cupcake."

The federal judge who sentenced the celebrity homemaker, who is due to report to prison on Oct 8, had recommended she serve her jail term at either Danbury, Conn., or Coleman, Fla.

But the U.S. Bureau of Prisons (search) has instead decided that Stewart will serve the prison sentence at the Alderson minimum security facility

"While I had hoped to be designated to a facility closer to my family and more accessible to my appellate attorneys, I am pleased that the Bureau of Prisons has designated me so quickly to FPC Alderson, the first Federal prison camp for women in the United States," Stewart said in a statement.

"I look forward to getting this behind me and to vigorously pursuing my appeal," she added.

Stewart was sentenced in July after she was convicted of lying about why she sold ImClone Systems Inc. (IMCL) stock in 2001. She was assigned federal inmate No. 55170-054 on Monday

The Alderson facility was not on Stewart's wish list because it lacks any nearby transportation and was not requested because of limited accessibility by rail or plane

In making the decision to send Stewart to Alderson, prison officials believed the celebrity would receive less media attention when reporting for the sentence there than if she were sent to either Danbury or Coleman, according to a source close to matter.

Both of those facilities are also crowded at the moment and have little or no room for new inmates, the source said.

The minimum-security federal camp for women, which opened in 1927, was the nation's first all-women's institution.

In the 1980s the facility, where inmates sleep in bunk beds in dormitory-style rooms, was reclassified as a minimum security "camp."

Alderson inmates mow grass, sweep and pick up trash, usually twice a week from April to September. Inmates take donated yarn and knit sweaters, hats, scarves and mittens for the Family Refuge Center in Lewisburg, W.Va.
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At least she'll be doing what she loves... :grinyes:

Read about it here...
 
Martha will flourish in her new lifestyle......


Had several more but they are too large.
 
5 months for lying about a stock sale.

hate to say it, but she was set up, the fine should have been it, they hit her with the max, cause of who she is.
 
paul_valaru said:
5 months for lying about a stock sale.

hate to say it, but she was set up, the fine should have been it, they hit her with the max, cause of who she is.
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How many times have celebrities gotten off because of "who they are"?

If that had been me or you, we'd have gotten 30 years. If she did the crime, she should do the time.
 
alex said:
How many times have celebrities gotten off because of "who they are"?

If that had been me or you, we'd have gotten 30 years. If she did the crime, she should do the time.
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30 years for an enron type deal.

what she did is really a slap in the wrist thing.

Here (Canada) I get the bulletins of who broke what rule, for what she did standard punishment, no previous offenses $5,000 fine 6 month suspended trading license, and you have to retake your "Conduct and Practices Handbook" test again before you can get the license back.
 
Yup. For the offense in question, she got a hard hit.

OTOH, Ken Lay and the rest of the Enron boys oughtta be in prison for 15 years, and they're still walking free.
 
From a financial board I visit:

Martha was a token to the public via SEC. Although..im sure she deserved time for something...perhaps just being herself was enough.
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Heh.
 
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