From the strange highs to the arduous lows; from day one to day and beyond , this is the truth about Martha Stewart's time behind bars. Martha Stewart has been an American icon for decades; practically everyone with a kitchen knows her name. So just why did she end up in prison in the first place?
Well, it has to do with insider trading. In , a biopharmaceutical company called ImClone got itself into a bit of a hot spot when it failed to get FDA approval for a new experimental drug it was developing. One of the company's founders, Dr. Samuel Waksal, advised friends and family to sell their stock in the company, knowing its value would take a dive once the news became public. But things like this don't go unnoticed, and Stewart quickly came under investigation by the U.
Stewart was charged with securities fraud, obstruction of justice, and conspiracy, and the case went to trial in early No, Stewart actually went down for the conspiracy, obstruction of justice, and for lying to investigators — she had insisted that she had an agreement with her stock broker to sell shares if they dropped below a certain price.
Stewart was sentenced to five months in prison, five months of house arrest, and two years probation. Although Martha Stewart asked to be incarcerated in Connecticut or Florida, so her elderly mother could visit her , she was sentenced to carry out her term behind bars at FCP Alderson in West Virginia.
FCP Alderson was built in as the first federal prison for women, and employs a "reformatory" model of justice in which no barbed wire is used and the inmates are housed in so-called "cottages" that can house up to 60 other women. Inside, inmates are given access to email, a television room, library, hospital, chapel, education building, and a common area.
Inmates spend most of their time working, but they're also able to take part in apprenticeship programs for teacher assistants, cooks, electricians, and other similar professions. When they're not working, they're allowed to pretty much come and go as they please — as long as they sign out and explain where they're going, inmates are allowed to exit their cottages and walk around the grounds at any time after morning count and before 4 p.
Written by Evie Litwok, an ex-inmate at the prison, it sheds a different light on the prison in which Martha Stewart was incarcerated. Litwok's account of FPC Alderson is one of ill-fitting uniforms, backbreaking work, and prisons being frequently refused the opportunity to relax or socialize.
But that wasn't even the worst of it — not by a long shot. We were not allowed to read, do crossword puzzles, knit, play cards, or sleep. Litwok even shed some light on Stewart's own time at FPC Alderson, suggesting that the TV personality was singled out and humiliated by prison staff.
I suspect she was refused because this chore might have given her an inkling of pleasure within the miserable prison environment. She was instead assigned instead to the humiliating task of mopping the floors and cleaning the toilets of the warden and other higher-ups. In her criminal case, she was found guilty of conspiracy, obstruction of justice and lying to federal investigators in March The securities fraud charge related to boosting the stock of her own company was dismissed.
The conviction resulted in a five-month prison sentence, followed by five months of house arrest and two years of probation.
Stewart maintained she was innocent but was confined to the minimum security Alderson Federal Prison Camp, West Virginia in October Although it was difficult, Martha Stewart seemed to take the short prison sentence in her stride. She took a role at the prison as an informal liaison, trying to maintain good relations between the inmates and the authorities at the prison. Her five-month sentence ended in March of Stewart quickly snapped back into action, hosting television shows and writing two new books upon her release.
Martha Stewart 2. In December , Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia made the unexpected announcement that Stewart planned to revive her television program once she was out of prison. Prison officials might have been wary of Stewart being the center of a media lovefest upon her release, which could explain why her departure from Alderson took place at a.
Stewart seemed to pick up from where she left off, with new books, television appearances and merchandising deals — the ImClone scandal and her incarceration did not scratch her image.
The Last Laugh: The players in this strange story each moved beyond the scandal in interesting ways. Faneuil is a self-employed FileMaker developer based in New York City, with clients in manufacturing, real estate, fine arts, education and medicine. But he was forced to abdicate the CEO role when the company planned to go public because his conviction banned him from serving as an officer of a publicly-traded company.
He became chief of innovation while his brother Harlan took the chief executive role, but he left the company in February Stewart would occasionally speak publicly about her prison experience after being released, preferring not to dwell on that part of her life. But in a March Comedy Central roast of Justin Bieber, Stewart stole the show with a ribald monologue imagining the pop star in prison while spoofing her image of a domestic goddess in the slammer.
I made mine from a pintail comb and a pack of gum. I'll show you how later. It's so simple. I found Bubblicious works best and it's so much fun to say. Both the celebrities on the roast stage and the audience were convulsed as Stewart steamrolled her way through the monologue, unaware of the R-rated surprise she was about to unleash on them.
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