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March 02, 2004
i'm not guilty...i'm too damn smart!
okay, so let me get this straight, martha stewart cannot possibly be guilty of insider trading because she's too smart to have not gotten her story straight with her broker?
help me out here. the legal tactic being employed suggests that because she is so smart if she were really guilty, then the story concocted between her and her broker would have been so airtight that...well, she never would have been convicted in the first place?
this is despite the fact that two witnesses confirm that the conversation took place to dump the shares at $60, that emails were changed to cover up the details before investigators arrived at her office, and the broker's assistant ordered to tip off stewart has pleaded guilty to the offense himself.
clearly someone has an extraordinarily overblown sense of their own intelligence. or, more likely, assumes everyone else is extraordinarily stupid.
because a well-thrown dinner party with mini-quiches, salt butlers and matching outdoor furniture is clearly the mark of genius.
i'll bet she came up with this brilliant defense herself.
Posted by heidijanet at March 2, 2004 11:45 AM
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