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Article: Mail Call; Martha Stewart: Criminal or Scapegoat?(Letter to the Editor)
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- Newsweek
- Article date:
- March 29, 2004
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Readers shared strong convictions on the Martha Stewart verdict, the subject of our March 15 cover story. Many thought that although Stewart may have used bad judgment, she did not commit any harm. "Stewart wasn't dealing drugs, gunrunning, driving thousands of employees out of work or robbing their retirement funds," one said. Others believed Stewart was merely a convenient scapegoat. "It's a shame that the standard for fair punishment of white-collar crimes was set by someone more likely to be wearing a smart pink blouse," said a reader. But not everyone had sympathy for the domestic diva. "For Martha Stewart, a former stockbroker herself, a billion-dollar empire wasn't ...
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