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11/29/2004 "This is a good website for news about Martha"

FORMER PROSECUTOR SAYS FEDS FOCUS ON BIG GAME HUNTS--

In the Martha Stewart case, this is the first time in history — that I know of, and I did the research on this — where they charged an individual with false statements, without her signing the statement or without a tape recording that she even made the statement. And not under oath."

"I keep an ever changing roster I call my Hail Mary list - a reminder to say prayers for people I know who are going through bad times. Right now, Martha is at the top of it." - Dominick Dunne, in this month's Vanity Fair

Diva Down
What the rest of us have to fear from the fall of Martha
Elizabeth Koch

So says Diane Lori Kleiman, a lawyer who worked for the federal government as well as the Queens District Attorney's office. "They absolutely look for these cases and they grab onto them. It isn't necessarily an issue of right and wrong. It's an issue of taking the case to trial and getting the publicity. That makes your career," she contends.

Diane Lori Kleiman, an attorney (and Fox News commentator) who has seen it from the inside, reveals for the first time an inside view of how and why it is that a person like Martha Stewart is sitting in prison today. Kudos to John Crudele at the NY Post has been on the story from the beginning. He has been asking he same nagging question as we: Why Martha? As events unfold, we are gradually learning the answers to that question.

Insider Trading on Capitol Hill? -- TMF
Few of us have probably ever looked forward with great anticipation to the publication of an article in a financial academic journal. But there's one appearing in the December issue of the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis that may make for gripping reading. It raises a troubling question: Are there financial shenanigans going on on Capitol Hill? Specifically, are (some) senators engaging in insider trading, acting on early knowledge they may have regarding what legislation will be passed when, which companies will be awarded big contracts, and which companies' drugs will be approved?

No more mail for Martha?
Alderson prison overwhelmed with thousands of letters...fans write to Martha's mom instead

DON'T WRITE MARTHA, JUST BUY! -- Page Six
MARTHA Stewart can't read all the fan mail that's coming to her in prison, but you can show the domestic diva some love by buying her products. That's what fans who write to inmate #55170-054 at the Federal Prison Camp in Alderson, W.Va., are being told in a return form-letter from Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia. "She's cut off from her mail," cried John Small, the operator of the SaveMartha.com Web site.

But Small's solution — to send letters to Stewart's mom, "Big Martha" Kostyra, at Turkey Hill in Connecticut — has other fans incensed. "Asking thousands to burden Martha's elderly mother with pieces of unwanted fan mail is beyond reproach," a reader e-mailed us. "To take it upon himself to add to Mrs. Kostyra's already compounded grief and agitation without permission from her or her family is unforgivable and lacks decent human respect. "

A spokeswoman for Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia said, "Martha is very touched by the enormous outpouring of support and sorry that she cannot respond directly."

Save Martha responds to these uninformed charges

Are fans who write to Martha's mother being cruel and insensitive? Are we, by suggesting that they do so? Evidently not, according to a spokesperson at MSO. After receiving a letter from the company last week which asks for people to stop writing to Martha in jail until she is released in the Spring, we thought it would be a nice idea to send holiday cards and letters to Big Martha. But a few readers evidently did not agree, and in fact became suddenly protective and upset, thinking this would put some kind of burden on Martha's 90 year old mother. And now the latest Martha mini-scandal is all over Page Six.

The very idea of Martha's mom getting post fan-letter stress disorder is completely ridiculous. As if SaveMartha would do anything to put any more of a burden on Martha or her family. We'd rather give up creme brulée forever. Having sat through six weeks of the trial and the sentencing hearing, having spent countless hours on this campaign to do whatever possible to help Martha and her company survive the most ridiculous scandal of all time, that would be the very last thing on our minds. But just like Martha, sometimes one cannot help but be a little bit misunderstood.

If you would like to write to Martha or her mother, we believe you are free to do so. But we will always inform you of any information that might help you make that decision more wisely. And if Big Martha wakes up one morning to a nice big pile of mail telling her how much we appreciate what her daughter Martha has done, then we plead guilty to the offense of warming a mother's heart while her daughter awaits freedom sometime in the Spring...

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