Justice served on Martha Stewart
Martha Stewart was released from prison under house arrest on March 4, 2005.
At last, justice is served on a famous personality.
After all, Martha learned the hard way that she is not above the law, that despite her celebrity status, she has to pay for her illegal insider trading.
I hate to be too hard on her, seeing the disastrous effects her incarceration must have had on her own corporation, Martha Stewart Living. I mean, the fact she did hard time for illegally dumping shares of another company�s stock must have permanently damaged the public�s view of her company, resulting in its stock tumbling . . .
What�s that? The stock TRIPLED in value while she was in prison? She is now much wealthier than when she began her sentence? In fact, she is now a billionaire? Oh . . .
Well, that doesn�t change the fact that she is now a convicted felon. Unfair as it may be, the fact that someone did hard time in the joint has a very harsh effect on people�s perception of them afterward.
Sadly, Ms. Stewart likely will now have to remove herself from the limelight, the shame of appearing before the public being more than she, or anyone, could handle. . .
I�m sorry, could you repeat that? She will star in a revival of her daily homemaking show as well as her version of NBC’s The Apprentice while writing a magazine column and running her empire?
Er . . . well, crime doesn�t pay anyway. Just ask Martha, or any gangster rapper with an arrest record, or any movie star caught doing drugs, or . . . oh, never mind.
