BREAKING-Martha Stewart Back at Work, Thanks Staff

[underpants]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/martha_stewart

NEW YORK - A beaming Martha Stewart (news - web sites) returned to work on Monday, blowing a kiss and waving as she arrived to speak to cheering employees.


After five months in prison and a weekend spent more comfortably at her 153-acre suburban estate, Stewart spoke to staff at Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia Inc. in Manhattan, as members of the media looked on.


"All of you are my heroes," Stewart told the crowd.

Stewart, 63, said she had had "the tremendous privilege" of meeting a cross-section of people in prison and "learned a great deal about our country."

[madison2000]

1. good for her

but she's still GROUNDED!
No boys, no alcohol, curfew...

[SCDem]

2. I really admire her

Before all this I could really care less about her... not thinking bad or good of her just not thinking much of her. But now I really respect her.

[ocean girl]

3. I agree - she handled this witch hunt with grace and class

Now, time for Kenny Boy to go! And Novak. And Rumsfeld. And the rest of the BFEE.

[kfc_snackers]

4. uuh shes a rich crimal n/t

[lasttrip]

9. almost pizza time. nt

[Misunderestimator]

10. What's a crimal?

[Lone Pawn]

31. Like a primal, only more c.

[Lavender Brown]

12. And you wasted your one and only post on her

Tsk, tsk.

[underpants]

17. FYI-$45,673

Before you leave you really should learn at least that fact

The Commission alleges that, during the morning of Dec. 27, 2001, Bacanovic instructed his assistant, Douglas Faneuil, to tell Stewart that Waksal and his daughter were selling all the ImClone stock held in their Merrill Lynch accounts. During a subsequent telephone call, Faneuil conveyed that information to Stewart, who promptly instructed Faneuil to sell all 3,928 shares of her ImClone stock. The next day, Dec. 28, 2001, ImClone announced that the FDA had decided not to accept ImClone's Erbitux application for filing. By the close of the next trading day, Monday, Dec. 31, 2001, the price of ImClone stock dropped 16% to $46 per share. By selling when she did, Stewart avoided losses of $45,673.

http://www.sec.gov/news/press/2003-69.htm

[lasttrip]

5. i hope she will continue to speak out

for prison reform since the spotlight will be on her for awhile. her above statements are also very encouraging. time will obviously tell.

[spunky]

6. I have one question. Do normal people get to go to work

while on house arrest? Or is that just a luxury for celeb jailbirds?

[lasttrip]

7. yes "normal" people also get to go to work. nt

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

11. Yes. House arrest generally means you leave only for work

[hollywood926]

29. Martha has gotten no special treatment whatsoever, except....

that she was able to leave just after midnight when most people are released around 8am. That's because most people don't have media and paparrazi waiting at their homes to greet them.

[mark414]

8. this pisses me off

why is is that we've got thousands of people stuck in the justice system going in and out with no help or hope and this rich bitch gets to come out and make even more money and be even more popular?

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[underpants]

16. FYI-$45,673

Before you leave you really should learn at least that fact

The Commission alleges that, during the morning of Dec. 27, 2001, Bacanovic instructed his assistant, Douglas Faneuil, to tell Stewart that Waksal and his daughter were selling all the ImClone stock held in their Merrill Lynch accounts. During a subsequent telephone call, Faneuil conveyed that information to Stewart, who promptly instructed Faneuil to sell all 3,928 shares of her ImClone stock. The next day, Dec. 28, 2001, ImClone announced that the FDA had decided not to accept ImClone's Erbitux application for filing. By the close of the next trading day, Monday, Dec. 31, 2001, the price of ImClone stock dropped 16% to $46 per share. By selling when she did, Stewart avoided losses of $45,673.

http://www.sec.gov/news/press/2003-69.htm

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

20. Gone. I wanted to tell him

he misspelled TEH. :silly:

[Beaverhausen]

25. God Bless the America?

at least he spelled criminal correctly.

[Lone Pawn]

30. Thanks for the clarification.

When people say "God bless America," I'm always confused--an America? or the America?

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

14. Sorry. The government's case against Stewart was a sham in the first place

While the thousands of people stuck in the justice system is a miscarriage of justice, that isn't Martha Stewart's fault. In my opinion, it is far worse that Michael Milken was convicted, pardoned and then got right back to work on manufacturing the California deregulation sham.

[radwriter0555]

33. HEY, how is KEN LAY DOING?

Hmmm.....

[lasttrip]

15. she did her time for her "crime".

i hope she champions prision reform so as to help those that get caught up in the system. i personally dont know her so i wont comment on her being a "bitch".

[progmom]

18. Being rich, even being a "bitch" isn't illegal.

Nor is being popular.

I understand what you're saying, but I think in this case she hasn't gotten a lot of special treatment because of her celebrity status.

[bleedingheart]

19. Big differences between Stewart and the thousands in the justice system

Before "lying" about a stock trade that the government isn't even sure is illegal....she....

was a model
put herself through college
became a stock broker...
settled into family life and then started a catering business...
then she started the "home life" business she has today...

She was successful on her merits not based on a crime she committed.

[Bridget Burke]

26. Ask Ken Lay.

He hasn't even seen the inside of a courtroom yet.

[hollywood926]

28. Why is she a bitch?

She's worked her whole life for what she has and she happens to have become famous in the process...people are interested in what she's doing. People do not happen to be as interested in what Joe Schmoe the Crack Dealer is doing after the end of his sentence.

I love it reading the rantings of woman-hating democrats. It puts things in perspective.

[progmom]

34. Hey - don't read too much into his post.

He isn't a woman hater, not by any stretch. Search for his other posts - he is normally a very considerate DU-er. We all have our hot-button issues, right? This happens to be his. We can disagree with him, but I don't think it's fair to label him.

[mark414]

36. yep you got me

because i don't like martha stewart i'm a woman hater

i'm busted, i admit it, sorry, won't let it happen again

she's a bitch because she's not a nice person. my cousin interned for her and only heard AND experienced horror stories. not a pleasant woman.

[DS1]

21. So, numerouns months after the Enron scandal, Martha Stewarts is

accused, tried, convicted, and has completed her sentence before Ken Lay is even indited?

:eyes:

[underpants]

22. Priorites man priorities

[progmom]

23. I just saw your sig line.

Oh that man bothers me.
Did he say that recently?

[underpants]

24. Yep

Hoepfully one of these links will work
http://www.paulsjusticepage.com/cjethics/5-penology/mumia.htm

As the political system is corrupt and subordinate to the interest of big corporations rather than the interest of people, so the justice system tends to be corrupt in defending this system against the innocence of common people. In this regard it is worth pondering the profound meaning of this statement by justice Antonin Scalia of the U.S. Supreme Court:
"Mere factual innocence is no reason not to carry out a death sentence properly reached."
http://www.ftlcomm.com/ensign/desantisArticles/2002_600/desantis678/republicans.html

http://www.giga-usa.com/quotes/authors/antonin_scalia_a001.htm

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

32. Early 1990's..the case was Herrera V Collins

[tjdee]

27. Ken Lay's trial isn't until 2006.

:grr:

I think it doesn't even start until March (I want to say May though).

[roguevalley]

35. well, I hope her nicing up was permanent and real. nothing worse

than to work for a fucker, male or female and she sure was one. I hope she changed and if she did, she owes it to the prisoners back in virginia.