Case Study 2 Case: The Trial of Martha Stewart The Central Issue: Did Martha Stewart commit the crime of insider trading when she sold the ImClone shares? Recommended Course of Action: Martha Stewart did commit the crime of insider trading when she sold her shares for ImClone. She should’nt have sold her shares when she was told that the rate of ImClone’s shares is going to drop because it was an inside news that after FDA’s disapproval of the drug ImClone’s shares
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Martha Stewart Case 1. Martha Stewart is best known for embodying the American dream. She devoted most of her life to improving the quality of the home‚ emphasizing modesty and decorum over extravagance and luxury. She defied expectations as she went on to start her own catering business and expanded it into a media empire trading on the New York Stock Exchange. She was not only the founder of the company‚ she was its public face and chief spokeswoman. Martha Stewart and MSO are inextricably linked
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Martha Stewart went on trial on January 12‚ 2004 for conspiracy‚ obstruction of justice‚ securities fraud and making false statements in the stock trading scandal at ImClone Systems. Stewart’s sale of almost 4‚000 shares of stock in ImClone Systems created suspicions of insider trading. After investigating the matter‚ the federal prosecutors suspected that she deliberately tried to mislead their investigation. It is considered a Federal felony for someone to falsify or cover a material fact and to
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CHAPTER 7 – case study “The trial of Martha Stewart” question 1 (p.225) Did Martha Stewart commit the crime of insider trading when she sold her ImClone shares on December 27‚ 2001? I believe that Martha Stewart committed the crime of insider trading. In my opinion‚ this case study had enough information about Martha Stewart’s trial. There are facts supporting that she had important and significant information about ImClone shares that wasn’t available to the public at that time. First of all
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Scandals: Martha Stewart and the ImClone Insider Trading Deal A very famous scandal that has embedded ourselves in our history is the Martha Stewart scandal of 2003. Martha Stewart is a true success story of the American dream in effect. Starting as a housewife‚ Martha created her career by turning her previous business experience and career into a household name and an enterprise. Having established Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia‚ Inc. (MSO)‚ which handled everything from print to television
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insider trading‚ particularly the Martha Stewart insider trading case. I will also refer to other trading cases such as one that happened recently against Galleon Group‚ an invest firm in New York‚ which was charged for insider trading. In this paper‚ I will talk about how the media‚ particularly newspapers‚ depicts crimes associated with popular celebrities and compare it to how it depicts the same crime with a regular person. The Martha Stewart insider trading case was a popular news story that shook
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I love to cook‚ so finding and trying out a new recipe for me is great. When I have the time‚ I love to watch cooking shows on TV‚ so what comes to mind for me‚ is the Martha Stewart scandal in 2004. In 2001‚ Martha Stewart had received an inside tip from her stockbroker that her stock‚ ImClone Systems was going to fall‚ so she sold her almost 4‚000 shares in the company to avoid an almost $46‚000 loss‚ the next day the stock fell 16%. Over the next few months‚ Martha’s activies were being investigated
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On December 27 ‚ 2001 Martha Stewart‚ America’s beloved housewife‚ sold her shares of ImClone after she received specific inside information regarding the status of the companies business. A series of events led to an investigation‚ interviews‚ indictments‚ a trial & sentencing of Martha Stewart to 5 months in a minimum security prison camp and then 5 months of home confinement. Merril Lynch tipped off the Securities & Exchange commission to report the possibility of insider trading on
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Martha Stewert is the owner of Omnimedia which handles her show‚ clothing line etc. What she did was owned a large sum of stock in a biotechnology firm (ImClone) and was chums with them. She was tipped off that one of the things they researched did not pan out. The spending on the project would not yeild any sales so the expected companies profits would never be. This is a bad thing if you own the stock the way Martha Stewart did. The illegal part was that she was told that the company was not doing
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Martha Stewart: Lemons into Lemonade Before one can make an informed decision as to whether Martha Stewart’s handled the incident responsibly or whether or not her actions were moral or immoral‚ one must first understand the basics of ethics and understand whose rights are involved and how they were affected. Then one must also examine who will be helped and who will be hurt by her actions and then make a decision based on the information and personal values as they relate to the issue. Martha
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