Can you name one of the charges Martha Stewart was convicted on?
In todays New York Times Martha Stewart is quoted, “I honestly don’t remember exactly what I was prosecuted for.”
Can anyone remember?
If you said insider trading, like most people think, you’re wrong. The real answer is lying to investigators and obstruction of Justice. What ever happened with whole that insider trading thing? Exactly nothing. There wasn’t enough evidence to pursue it so instead they charged Marta for lying about a crime they never proved she committed.
This Kafkaesque conviction was not for lying under oath, but one of the absurd Section 1001 convictions that make it a crime to “lie” to any federal official. You don’t have to be under oath or even be made aware of your rights for the law to apply.
Don’t you know it’s for your own good Citizen?
1 Comments:
Actually I think the law is so broad that a "false statement" is sufficient for prosecution. A mistake or a misstatement can be a false statement. The whole thing was bizarre. What exactly were the false statements? Does anyone know? Was the jury required to identify them? Going to prison for making false statements about one's reasons for legally selling stock--that is surreal.
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