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  • Martha Stewart turned herself in to Alderson Prison Camp, W. Va.
  • The Federal Bureau of Prisons says she arrived around 6:15 a.m. on Oct. 8.
  • Statements attributed to her are posted at www.marthatalks.com
  • After a week at the camp, Stewart posted on her Web site that she is adjusting well to the prison and described it as \"like an old-fashioned college campus — without the freedom, of course.\"
  • She also wrote \"The camp is fine; it is pretty much what I anticipated.\" \"The best news — everyone is nice — both the officials and my fellow inmates. I have adjusted and am very busy.\"
  • In addition, she wrote \"Your goodwill and best wishes will get me through this next chapter in my life.\"
  • Stewart was released from prison at 12:30 a.m. on March 4, 2005."; MarthaFacts_0503[i++] = new Array("","Sentencing","","","","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", ""); MarthaFacts_0503[i-1].body = "
  • Stewart was sentenced in July to five months in prison and five months of home confinement for lying about a stock sale.
  • She’s also been fined $30,000.
  • Stewart announced she wants to serve her time as soon as possible, even as her lawyers pursue an appeal of her conviction.
  • Stewart said she made the decision because her business and her personal life could not be put on hold for the many months it would take for the appeal to make its way to court.

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  • Stewart was found guilty on March 5, 2004 of four counts: conspiracy, obstruction and two counts of making false statements.
  • Those charges are all tied to charges Stewart lied to cover up why she sold some stock.
  • She was not charged with insider trading.
  • The sale in question happened on Dec. 27, 2001. That’s when Stewart sold 3,928 shares of stock in the biotechnology-drug company ImClone Systems.
  • Stewart saved a total of $51,000 by selling her ImClone stock when she did.
  • One day earlier the company’s founder, Sam Waksal, found out a major cancer drug would not be approved by the Food and Drug Administration. He tipped his daughter to sell her stocks and he then tried to sell his own.
  • Prosecutors allege Martha Stewart’s stock broker -- Peter Bacanovic -- ordered an assistant to tip her about Waksal’s moves.
  • They say she later lied to investigators about getting such a tip.
  • Stewart insists she had a standing order to sell her ImClone stock once it dipped below $60 a share. It now trades around $80.
  • She has consistently maintained that she did nothing wrong."; // END editorial data