Martha Stewart made $50,000 from her Imclone transaction and shes facing jail time
Although I'm a big advocate of killing and eating the rich as a general principal, I'm down with WrestlingFan's implication that Martha got railroaded. In brief, she's likely to do jail time for "lying" to FBI agents (not under oath) about an alleged crime that the government never bothered to charge her with. Except in the most hypothetical construct, no one was damaged by her actions. More importantly, I suspect for her, she also lost control of a company she spent most of her life building and that has been run on the up & up.
On the other hand, Lay and his posse actively & deliberately went about turning the company they controlled into a Ponzi scheme of artificial growth, manipulated the energy markets in Cali costing jobs and cash to those folks and went out of their way to encourage their employees and the investing public to keep putting their money into an entity that was collapsing from the inside so that they could keep sucking the cash out of the thing for a few more months. These MFers deserve to have ALL their assets stripped from them and to be forced to spend the rest of their lives working for minimum wage.
But as the late great Joe Strummer implied (as voiced in my sig quote) life isn't necessarily fair.
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