Mostly Martha's Rap Sheet

[Cindy C.]

Melcarlos wrote:

> 'Cept you know what...compared to what's been going on the past 
> several years, what did she do REALLY?
> There is a fantastic columun in our local paper this AM about just 
> that. 

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I checked out the article, but I don't think I'm persuaded that 
Martha is being railroaded.

The article said:

"We're not even indicting her for alleged insider trading. Basically, 
we're indicting her because she had the gall to keep insisting she 
was innocent after the government set its sights on her."

I dunno.  I mean, she didn't have to insist on her innocence at all, 
really.  She could have asserted her 5th amendment rights, I would 
think.  

Her problem isn't that she insisted she was innocent.  It seems that 
when you know the government is investigating you, you call another 
witness/potential defendant, you go to lunch and cook up a cockin' 
bull story to throw the feds off your scent, go back to your 
respective offices and tamper with documents you know to be relevant 
to the allegations, taking care to try to match the original blue 
ink  . . . 

. . . you're a crook!  That it was only $45,000 doesn't sway me 
because, well, we toss people in jail every day for offenses that net 
them far, far less.  

Cindy -- who likes prosecutors to throw the book at white collar 
criminals