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...Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia went public amid great fanfare in 1999. But savvy investors have long worried about the proverbial question, "What happens if she gets run over by a bus?" The company is so dependent on her name, likeness and image that if they are not in good standing, the franchise is seriously degraded. After the verdict, shares of Stewart's company dropped nearly...
...Attorney David Kelley insisted that the government was not singling out Martha Stewart for prosecution to make an example of her in an era of spectacular corporate corruption. Take him at his word. But Stewart was no ordinary Jane who traded on inside information to make a quick buck. Her tabloid celebrity, her status as a walking, talking brand name, and her role as CEO of a publicly held corporation turned what would otherwise have been a simple case into a treacherous web of legal and corporate issues. And at almost every turn, she and her advisers made the wrong...
...resent her celebrity cheering section--sorry, Rosie--and the fact that her attorney, Robert Morvillo, never let her testify. That might have been proper legal strategy, but the jury had spent all that time in court with her and had never been properly introduced. That's not very Martha...
Bacanovic was on vacation in Florida on Dec. 27, but Douglas Faneuil, his assistant, relayed the message from Waksal to him, prompting Bacanovic, according to Faneuil, to exclaim, "Oh, my God, get Martha on the phone!" The amount of money at stake was trivial to someone as wealthy as Stewart, who had previously sold 20% of her ImClone holdings. Yet Martha is famously tightfisted and, as testimony showed, an extremely demanding client. She was traveling to a resort in Mexico with her friend Mariana Pasternak. But through a series of phone calls she learned what Waksal...
Since the ImClone troubles first surfaced, the company has made efforts to play down Stewart's role, cutting back on photos of her in its flagship publication, Martha Stewart Living. But the vast majority of the business is still plastered with the name Martha Stewart, and the efforts to branch out are late in coming...