Do you think she had inside information?

Conviction of Martha Stewart Forum

Did she have inside information?

I say "yes"

I say yes too. She has advisors that could have told her it was illegal. I think she knew what she was doing, and I think her advisors gave her inside information. You can't be in business that long and not know the ropes.

Agreed... she's been "playing" the stock market for years. She's no dummy.

An absolute, without a doubt, YES!

She knew what was going on!


Can you say BUSTED???

Won't her cell and cell mate just love what she does with to the 'joint!'
She will have it decorated up, and maybe she can whip up something yummie to eat with whatever she can!

Because she hasn't had her day in court, I'm very skittish about saying yes ... but ... skittishly ... YES !

IF she gets jail time her confinement will be at one of those white collar resort type of places and I hope they have her working in the gardens ... pitching the manure

Gee, obaf.... you wouldn't dislike her now would you?

I know one thing... I don't like her!

I think she knew.

Why do we bother to have trials nowadays? Why don't we just take a national poll and majority wins. Why waste all that taxpayer money? No one is going to change their minds anyway -- no such thing as "acquitted" in this day and age, nope it's "got off." Guess that's why the guy who spent 22 years on death row for a rape/murder he did not commit was on Greta Van Susteren tonite to tell his story.

Maybe Martha is guilty, but like every other accused, she deserves her day in court. Hopefully, she won't be convicted unless she truly is guilty.

My goodness... just because we're saying that we feel that she's done this, Marlene... we still feel that she deserves a fair trial. We never said that she didn't... or that we would want her to go to jail if she was found innocent.

Unfortunatley... it's human nature to feel one way, or another, over any given thing.

Marlene! There you are! I haven't seen you post lately and I thought you were on vacation or something.

Marlene, she isn't being tried for insider information. She's being tried for obstruction of the investigation. When you lie, there should be consequences to pay for it.

Quite frankly, I'm glad there is a crack down on corporate crime. I'm sick of all of it.

Kooka, I was thinking the same thing... that she hadn't been around.

I'll tell you what justice would be if she is guilty. That would be having the stocks she sold boost so high that it produces more profit than Martha anticipated when she first bought them. The buyer of the stocks would have the last laugh.

I don't know that Martha is guilty. I just believe she's smart enough to know better, and has enough advisors to know better. I don't believe she bypassed information from her advisors, and I bet she asked before she sold.

The public sees the same old, same old...... suspicion makes one guilty.

Yep, Martha is guilty of something...... U.S. Prosecutors KNOW they don't have inside trading violations, so they charge her with guilty of something....

Gotta find something but forgot about the original legal charge. The Prosecutors weren't doing Martha a favor by not filing "insider trading" violations, but simply lying. Oh, okay......pretty soon the Constitution will be eroded when the cops accuse you of some violations and you say..... "NO, I didn't." Then they can't proof you didn't but along the way they say.....you're guilty of lying.

Well, apparently people haven't had enough of Martha because they ran out to K-mart and bought her stuff. Our news reported on it, and people said they're going to support her and her products.

Personally, I hope people send a message to K-mart and tell them we aren't going to tolerate this corporate corruption, and either drop the line or we all go to Wal-mart

Oh wait.. I think we already go to Wal-mart don't we?

I agree KM179, those supporters buying her items at Kmart probably never bought stocks in the market and haven't got a clue about how it works. Martha was greedy, plain and simple. She's worth millions and saved herself a mere 50k with selling her stocks because of insider information. Now I hope she pays more than that for it because the little guys who had stock in that company lost much more, and probably didn't have the luxury of her financial portfolio to stand such a loss.

Kooka, I'm a Walmart customer too. In fact, they've closed all the Kmarts around here. I think there's maybe one left in Tampa and it's in North Tampa...pretty far for anyone in my area to make the trek for Martha's overpriced linens.

She should get the book thrown at her. 20 years I say
I mean really if they let her out on the street anything
could happen. She is a threat to everones safety.
who knows who she will murder, rape or mug next.

the whole thing is stupid...if your broker called you up and
said trump is dumping his stock and asked you what you
want him to do with your trump stock, what would you do?

I would say dump trump.

ok so she wasn't charged with that. she was charged with
covering it up....still it's nonsense

Ben,
I don't think the millions of stockholders in this country who constantly lose money in these sort of cases think its nonsense. Coporations make bogus projections, trick normal citizens into buying stock that isn't as firm as they believe it is, and then the CEOs bail out at the right time leaving the little people to lose the money. I don't think the martha stewart prosecution is bogus, i'm glad we caught an exec breaking the rules and trying to cover it up ... it's you and i who normally pay the price.
I'm also behind this conviction because Martha had the chance to plea it down to a fine and some other minor penalties. The only reason she is going to jail is because she thought she could get away with the whole thing. I have no sympathy for people who believe they are above the law.

Ditto jrkiv!