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| 2004-07-16 |
| Domestic icon Martha Stewart moved one step closer to a drastically different lifestyle behind bars when the millionaire entrepreneur was sentenced Friday to five months in prison for a stock-trading scandal. "Gotta scrub these walls" "I'll be back," she promised afterward, speaking in a strong voice on the courthouse steps. "I'm not afraid. Not afraid whatsoever. I'm very sorry it had to come to this." "This is how best to arrange the prison food." She also was ordered to serve five months of home confinement for lying to federal investigators. Stewart, who was also fined $30,000, was spared an immediate trip to federal prison when U.S. District Court Judge Miriam Goldman Cedarbaum stayed her sentence pending appeal. "This is how you wash the bloodstains off the blaze-orange after the riot." In the courtroom, her voice was shaky as she appealed for a reduced sentence, asking the judge to "remember all the good I have done." "There. These bars are quite clean." "Today is a shameful day. It's shameful for me, for my family and for my company," she said. But outside the courthouse, Stewart was far more forceful and confident, complaining that a "small personal matter" was blown out of proportion and promising that she would not go quietly. |
| Posted by:Korora |
| #2 ... promising that she would not go quietly. [groan] |
| Posted by: Steve White 2004-07-16 2:53:43 PM |
| #1 asking the judge to "remember all the good I have done." For instance...? |
| Posted by: Raj 2004-07-16 12:59:56 PM |