A Diva in Distress
Newsweek, February, 2004 by Barney Gimbel and Keith Naughton
It had been almost three hours since the last break in the Martha Stewart trial. The marbled federal courtroom in Manhattan was stuffy and the jurors were restless. The prosecution's star witness, Douglas Faneuil, had just given potentially damning testimony against Stewart and her stockbroker, Peter Bacanovic. And now the best defense lawyers money can buy were ready to carve up Bacanovic's former assistant. But the slight 28-year-old was no easy prey. He cleverly sidestepped their land mines. He even praised Bacanovic as "the best boss I ever had," while implicating him and Stewart in a conspiracy to cover up her suspicious ImClone stock sale. Bacanovic's lawyer, David Apfel, tried to paint Faneuil as the real liar. But Faneuil deftly deflected Apfel and put the blame back on...
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