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Going After Martha...
...course, this meant Christmas had come early for late-night funnymen such as Jay Leno and Conan O’Brien. (As a comedic target, New Jersey has been taking hits for far longer—indeed, since the days of Vaudeville—than Bill Clinton, Viagra and Martha Stewart.) Leno quipped that regardless of the Nets’ and Devils’ success, New Jersey’s most feared outfit was still the Sopranos. “According to a newspaper poll,” he added, “75 percent of New Jersey residents rate...
...Martha Stewart, it was a tough week. Her friend and former Imclone Chief Sam Waksal was sentenced to prison for insider trading. For us, keeping track of the growing roster of scandal-plagued corporate execs has become a dizzying task. Be honest: Did you even know that Freddie Mac was a company and not a government agency? A cheat sheet. --By Kate Novack...
...rays of 76 (!) other bats from Sosa's locker all turned up negative (though the inquiry did determine the cause of global deforestation), but Major League Baseball handed him an eight-game suspension. Sosa is appealing the decision. It was another blow in a week of tarnished icons, including Martha Stewart, the New York Times and tennis star Serena Williams, who was bounced from the French Open in the semifinals. Maybe she should have tried a corked racket...
...Waksal, who pleaded guilty to all charges, was also ordered to pay $3 million in fines. He had tipped off family and friends to sell ImClone shares a day before the company announced that its application to market a cancer drug was rejected. Waksal's friend, American lifestyle icon Martha Stewart, who sold her ImClone stock before the announcement, has been charged with securities fraud and obstruction of justice...