Civil Bear said:
helltopay1 said:
In addition, this wunderkind proves once again that, there is no correlation whatsoever between raw intelligence, maniacal work habits and sane and ethical behavior. Psychologists and behavioral profilers have always maintained that many, if not most serial killers have very high I.Q's. Elizabeth was not a serial killer but she used her brilliant mind to defraud customers and make life miserable for her employees. Jail time??Of course: Martha Stewart was jailed in essence for lying to investigators. lying???That's it??Most of us start lying when we are five years old. Some of the lies we tell are necessary to just survive. The poet, mr. Pope, had it right when he said that " an honest man was the noblest work of God. Everything else is leather and prunella."
I believe it was for lying to a grand jury.
Actually, there were 3 charges. From Wikipedia:
Stewart was found guilty in March 2004 of felony charges of conspiracy, obstruction of an agency proceeding, and making false statements to federal investigators, and was sentenced in July 2004 to serve a five-month term in a federal correctional facility and a two-year period of supervised release (to include five months of electronic monitoring).
That didn't even include the insider trading allegations, for which she paid around $200,000 in restitution and fines. Another case where the attempted cover up was worse than the initial crime. If she had owned up and paid back what she had saved by trading early, she probably wouldn't have served any time at all.
