Didn’t Martha Go to the Slammer for This?
Martha paid the price of ‘a well-timed stock sale’ and yet some two thousand companies manipulated the stock options they regularly granted to executives. The scam involved back-dating options.
The headline from 2004 read
NEW YORK (CNN/Money) - A jury found Martha Stewart guilty Friday on all four counts of obstructing justice and lying to investigators about a well-timed stock sale, and the former stockbroker turned style-setter could face years in jail.