.. it's doubtful she would get any more than 1 to 2 years
I really hope that there is some way that she can avoid prison....maybe an enormous fine, house arrest, and lots of community service time? As a taxpayer, I really don't want to pay to keep Martha Stewart in jail...I don't think she is a threat to society. I'm sorry that she didn't accept a plea bargain.
I don't know if you've read any of Olivia Goldsmith's books..."The First Wives Club" author. She wrote a book called "Pen Pals" that was about a woman who thought she was "taking the heat" for insider's trading and helping her boss(she was innocent), and thought she was going to a "country club type" of prison. IMO an interesting book about life inside a woman's prison, that was originally intended to be a comedy...but ended up being more about the need for prison reform. Olivia Goldsmith must have done extensive research for this book, and I think she eventually became an advocate for prison reform.
From the Amazon review of the book:
"An old hand at the hell-hath-no-fury revenge novel, Goldsmith sets her latest humorous caper in an unlikely location behind bars. When "Wall Street showboater" Jennifer Spencer agreed to "take the heat" for her boss's insider trading, she thought at worst she'd be sent to some country club prison for white collar ladies. At the very least, Tom Branson, "the sharpest (and most handsome) young counsel on the Street" (as well as her "beloved fiance") would arrange for special treatment and an expedited appeal that would have her back in her posh office within days. But once the gate is locked at Jennings Correctional Facility, Jennifer realizes that her boss, and somehow even Tom, have abandoned her to serve the full three to five years in a "battleship pink" hellhole. In earlier novels, Goldsmith (The First Wives Club, etc.) embraced her heroines' consumerism with wicked glee; here, she strains to teach Jennifer "values, co-operation, and probably some humility" at the hands of an implausibly benevolent warden and some noble, wholesome inmates. Assigned to the "crew" of Movita Watson, the sassy "queen bee" of Jennings, Jennifer is persuaded to use her Wall Street smarts to help fight the privatization of Jennings and get back at the "yellow rat bastards" who put her there. The revenge scheme is amusingly intricate, but it doesn't jibe with the desperate, tragic air of the prison setting or the frequent didactic speeches about rehabilitation. Even Goldsmith's famous ear for dishy girl talk is lacking here, as the inmates (particularly Movita) speak a highfalutin jailhouse jive that wavers dangerously in tone. After Diana Brooks aided the prosecution at the Sotheby's trial, it's no longer funny when a woman is urged to take the rap for her boss." |
