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Sunday, June 08, 2003

Let's get our priorities straight fellas

 
Martha Stewart was charged with securities fraud as part of a nine-count criminal indictment Friday, following a long insider trading investigation. The charges handed down on Stewart and her Merrill Lynch broker, Peter Bacanovic, at a US federal court in Manhattan included securities fraud, conspiracy to obstruct justice, making false statements and perjury. However, there was no specific insider trading charge, which analysts had suggested would be difficult to prove. [read more...}

Can't prove it... hmmm. Guilty of making money while being female? Sounds like it. Carrying on about a celebrity's possible gain for several hundred thousand. Meanwhile the millions taken by Bush cronies, the millions of workers lives ruined by their actions... that goes unremarked except by liberals and oddballs..
Yes! We finally captured Martha Stewart. You know, with all the massive
and almost completely unpunished fraud perpetrated on the public by
companies like Enron, Global Crossing, and Tyco we finally got the ring
leader. Maybe now we can lower the nation's terror alert to periwinkle. --Jon Stewart, The Daily Show




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