Martha Stewart, founder and CEO of her own multimillion dollar corporation, Martha Stewart Living Omni media was indicted, on charges of lying to investigators, securities manipulation, and obstruction of justice. She was sentenced to five months in a West Virginia state woman’s prison and 5 months on house arrest. Originally it was said that Ms. Stewart was indicted on charges of insider trading, however obviously those charges could not be proven. After a year and a half investigation, she was indicted on totally different charges. Ms. Stewart’s stock broker at the time Mr. Bacanovic, who was employed at Merrill Lynch Investment Company, was also indicted on the same charges. Mr. Bacanovic had his assistant call and give Ms. Stewart non-public information about one of his companies other clients and how the stock in this particular company, Imclone biotech would be dropping the next day. After receiving this information Ms. Stewart authorized her stock broker to sell......

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Title: Martha Stewart
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