January 21, 2004
Courtroom Style
Martha Stewart's defense team hopes to pick jurors as well as she picks apples at her Turkey Hill farm, but the Post leads with the most important information: That the Martha carried a $12,000 Hermes bag to court yesterday (the brown bag in the photo). The Daily News says the Birkin is worth $7,000, but $12,000 is much more imflmmatory. Can't wait for the fashion assessment in the new US Weekly!
Only two Martha Stewart fans stood outside the court yesterday (the organizer and founder of savemartha.com had hoped for 50), but the two were happily with a wave from Stewart. Newsday had an article that scared the bejesus of Gothamist about the diehard Martha Stewart fans, including quotes like "I believe she is, as they say, a voice crying in the desert. She is pointing people in the right direction, and that is why they don't like her. It makes the average American aware of their own cultural deficiencies." Cultural defiencies? Americans? What? What's trivial is trying to make even more money illegally and being an alleged horror to her employees.
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Please remember that she is not charged with insider trading. She is charged with lying/obfuscating and conspiring to lie/obfuscate in unsworn, unrecorded interviews with the FBI. Good luck, prosecutors.
She's also charged with fraudulently inflating her own company's stock prices by publicly declaring her innocence in a press release and via her lawyer in an interview with WSJ. Keep in mind that her stock prices dropped after both those things happened. More good luck for prosecutors.
I know someone who worked for her and they told me she was not very pleasent to work for. So it's not just rumors about that it's true.