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- 03/06/04 N.Y. Affiliate Pulls Martha Stewart Show - NEW YORK - Martha Stewart's syndicated television show, "Martha Stewart Living," is being pulled from CBS's New York affiliate following the domestic maven's stock conviction. WCBS will pull the plug on the show as of Monday and other CBS stations may follow suit, The New York Times and the New York Post reported in Saturday editions...
- 03/05/04 Martha Stewart Convicted of All Counts - NEW YORK (AP) - Martha Stewart was convicted Friday of obstructing justice and lying to the government about a superbly timed stock sale, a devastating verdict that probably means prison for the woman who epitomizes meticulous homemaking and gracious living. The jury of eight women and four men deliberated three days before convicting Stewart of all counts against her. The charges carry up to 20 years in prison, but Stewart will most certainly get much less than that under federal sentencing guidelines....
- 03/05/04 Martha Stewart says she will appeal verdict - NEW YORK ?Martha Stewart said she plans to appeal Friday's jury verdict finding her guilty on all counts in a trial over a suspicious stock sale in which she was accused of lying to investigators. "I am obviously distressed by the jury's verdict but I continue to take comfort in knowing that I have done nothing wrong," she said in a letter posted on her personal Web site, marthatalks.com...
- 03/05/04 Stewart Conviction Likely to Hurt Company - The guilty verdict for Martha Stewart will badly damage her company, scaring more advertisers and perhaps readers and viewers away from her media business, industry experts said. Sales of her towels and other household goods may hold up better...
- 03/05/04 http://www.marthatalks.com/
- 03/05/04 Stewart Jurors Focus on Perjury Charge - NEW YORK (AP) - Jurors at the Martha Stewart stock trial finished a second day of deliberations Thursday after indicating that they were focused on a charge of perjury against the homemaking mogul's former stockbroker...
- 02/05/04 Witness in Stewart Case Feared Losing Job - NEW YORK - The star witness in the Martha Stewart trial testified Thursday that he believed he would lose his job unless he lied to back up the domestic stylist's version of why she dumped her ImClone Systems stock. Douglas Faneuil, a former Merrill Lynch & Co. assistant, made the remark under cross-examination by a lawyer for Stewart's former stockbroker. "I felt I would be fired if I didn't lie," he said...
- 02/03/04 Stewart sold stock after tip, broker's aide says - NEW YORK - In the most damaging testimony yet against Martha Stewart, a former Merrill Lynch assistant said Wednesday that the homemaking mogul ordered all her ImClone Systems stock sold after she learned the company founder was dumping his own shares. Douglas Faneuil, the government’s star witness, said he passed the tip from broker Peter Bacanovic to Stewart when she called on Dec. 27, 2001, on her way to a vacation in Mexico...
- 02/03/04 Stewart Witness Tells of Insider Info - The star witness against Martha Stewart testified on Tuesday that he was ordered to pass insider stock information to the lifestyle trendsetter and later lied to investigators probing her suspicious share trade. Douglas Faneuil -- the former assistant to Stewart's Merrill Lynch & Co. stockbroker Peter Bacanovic, who is also charged -- said he initially lied to investigators about telling Stewart that her friend Sam Waksal was dumping the shares in the company he founded, ImClone Systems Inc. "to cover up."
- 02/02/04 Martha Called ImClone On Sale Day - NEW YORK - Just minutes before Martha Stewart sold her stake in ImClone Systems on Dec. 27, 2001, the domestic diva now on trial for obstruction of justice called Samuel Waksal, then chief executive of ImClone. She asked to speak with him and when told he was unavailable, she told his assistant, "I need you to go find him."
- 01/28/04 Star Witness to Testify Against Martha Stewart - The star witness against Martha Stewart is expected to testify as soon as Thursday that his stock broker supervisor ordered him to pass a secret trading tip to the lifestyle trendsetter.
- 01/27/04 Prosecutor: Martha Lied - Martha Stewart lied to investigators and committed "serious federal crimes" by selling off nearly 4,000 shares of stock based on a tip no one else had, a prosecutor charged Tuesday. As opening statements got under way in federal court, Assistant U.S. Attorney Karen Patton Seymour told jurors that Stewart had lied to federal agents, and "multiplied that lie by feeding it to investors in her own company."
- 01/26/04 Jury Set for Stewart Stock Fraud Trial - NEW YORK (AP) - A jury of eight women and four men was chosen Monday to hear Martha Stewart's stock fraud trial. Lawyers for the government and defense were expected to present their opening statements beginning Tuesday. Six alternates - four men and two women - also were selected...
- 01/23/04 Martha Stewart Lawyers Say Jurors Are Confused - NEW YORK (Reuters) - The federal judge in the Martha Stewart case has agreed to correct jurors' misunderstanding that the lifestyle trendsetter is charged with insider trading -- a move her defense team hopes will bolster its case....
- 01/20/04 Lawyers Begin Picking Martha Stewart Jury - One by one, potential jurors took a seat across from Martha Stewart and answered questions from lawyers trying to decide which 12 will decide her fate in a stock-fraud trial. The juror questioning was conducted in secret Tuesday as the domestic style maven's trial began in earnest. About three dozen filed into a judge's chambers to answer questions, and more were expected Wednesday and the rest of the week...
- 01/20/04 Martha Stewart Repeats Not Guilty Plea - NEW YORK -- As the final stages of jury selection got under way in Martha Stewart's securities fraud trial in New York, she repeated her not guilty pleas in court in a barely audible voice. Stewart faces charges that she lied about the sale of her ImClone Systems shares...
- 01/20/04 Martha Stewart 'eager' to testify - NEW YORK -- The Martha Stewart show debuts Tuesday in Manhattan Federal Court, with the domestic goddess ready to take off the kitchen mitts and fight back on the witness stand...
- 01/20/04 Facts about Martha Stewart - AGE: 62., BIRTHDATE: Aug. 3, 1941., HOME TOWN: Nutley, N.J....
- 01/19/04 An open letter from Martha Stewart - Dear Friends: As we head into the new year and my trial begins, I am hopeful and optimistic that I will be exonerated and able once again to devote my full attention to developing and promoting the creative homekeeping ideas that so many loyal customers and supporters have come to rely on for inspiration in their own kitchens, gardens and craft rooms...
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