Publisher Gets Five Months in Prison
Just hitting the airwaves (via CNBC*): author and publisher Martha Stewart has been sentenced to five months’ prison time, two years of probation (including home confinement to just one home), and a comparatively modest fine.
The sentence was handed down moments ago in a New York federal court by U.S. District Court Judge Miriam Goldman Cedarbaum.
Earlier today, CNBC, citing an attorney for Stewart, reported the publisher planned to read a brief statement before her sentencing.
Peter Bacanovic, the former Merrill Lynch & Co. broker tried with Stewart, will be sentenced this afternoon at 2:30 p.m.
*CNBC-TV, not the web site. Rittenhouse beat every major web site with this post.
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