Word: obstructionism
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At the heart of the case was a stock tip that, the government alleged, allowed Stewart, once worth $1 billion, to net a measly $45,000. Prosecutors never filed criminal insider-trading charges, though, and Stewart handed her tormentors a comparatively easy obstruction case when, as the jury decided last...
CHARGE DROPPED. AGAINST MARTHA STEWART; of securities fraud; in New York City. The judge said the charge--that Stewart deceived investors in her company by denying that she had engaged in insider trading of ImClone stock--was based on too little evidence for the jury to consider. After it hears...
If Friday's verdict by a Manhattan jury holds, Martha Stewart could soon be doing her homemaking in the proverbial big house. After deliberating for three days at the end of a five week trial, a jury found the icon of domestic taste guilty of conspiracy, obstruction of justice and...
“Was he fishing? No, but he wasn’t playing balls where there was obstruction,” Whitman added. “He was just taking the space in a way that Pat doesn’t.
It was Martha Stewart, in all her tarnished glory, who drew the news cameras, the spectators jockeying for good seats, the visit from Rosie O'Donnell. But it was the slight, soft-spoken 28-year-old Douglas Faneuil, in his plain gray suit and tie, who last week owned the...