Dave Smith > wrote:

She may have the last laugh.

While she was in prison she made 500 million from her new reality TV
show.

Perhaps crime does pay..........

> ScratchMonkey wrote:
>
> > "Fudge" > wrote in
> > :
> >
> > > Au Contraire.... Martha has been a sacrificial lamb. She only lied and
> > > stole 40K. There are Wall Street crooks out there that filched
> > > billions. Now, the gullible public can safely entrust their cash to
> > > Wall Street secure in the knowledge the guilty have been punished.
> >
> > A nice analysis of her "crime":
> >
> > http://harrybrowne.org/articles/MarthaStewart2.htm
> >
> > The real criminals are the federal prosecutors, making big names for
> > themselves.
>
> Harry Brown certainly has an interesting take on Martha's crime, and
> contrary to what he says, I think it is a crime. The western world's
> economy relies very heavily on the stock market, and the value of stocks and
> investments should have some credibility to it. Sure, it can be a bit of a
> crap shoot to invest in some companies. Sometimes you win and sometimes you
> lose. In Martha's case, as I understand it, she got some inside information
> that something had happened that was going to make the value of her stock
> plummet. Accordingly, she dumped it. If the information she had been privy
> to have been made public, she would have lost a considerable amount of
> money. Instead, she sold the stock and someone from whom that important
> information had been withheld lost money. She sold something in what is
> supposed to be an honest market place, knowing full well that it was worth
> much less.