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Martha Stewart Is Found Guilty of Four Counts on Covering Up Stock Sale.

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, March, 2004

By Christopher Rowland, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Mar. 6--NEW YORK -- Martha Stewart, who turned the art of gracious living into a media empire, was convicted yesterday in US District Court on all counts relating to a conspiracy to cover up her sale of $228,000 worth of stock based on an inside tip. ADVERTISEMENT

The 62-year-old former chairwoman and chief executive of Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia Inc. appeared composed as the guilty verdicts on two counts of lying to investigators and single counts of conspiracy and obstruction of justice were read aloud in court. Juror Chappell Hartridge, a computer technician from the Bronx, who moments before had convicted her, said the jurors were convinced of Stewart's guilt...

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