Securities and Exchange Commission and U. Attorney probe of trading in the shares of ImClone Systems resulted in a widely publicized criminal case, which resulted in prison terms for media celebrity Martha Stewart , ImClone chief executive officer Samuel D. Waksal and Stewart's broker at Merrill Lynch , Peter Bacanovic. ImClone's stock price dropped sharply at the end of when its drug Erbitux , an experimental monoclonal antibody , failed to get the expected Food and Drug Administration FDA approval.

It was later revealed by the U. Securities and Exchange Commission that prior to the announcement after the close of trading on December 28 of the FDA's decision, numerous executives sold their stock. Waksal , was arrested in on insider trading charges for instructing friends and family to sell their stock, and attempting to sell his own. Four other executives sold shares in the following weeks as well. Later, founder Waksal pleaded guilty to various charges, including securities fraud , and on June 10, , was sentenced to seven years and three months in prison.

Martha Stewart , the founder of Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia , also became embroiled in the scandal after it emerged that her broker, Peter Bacanovic, tipped her off that ImClone was about to drop. Stewart's involvement would have never come to light had Doug Faneuil, Bacanovic's assistant, not disclosed it to investigators. Ultimately a new clinical trial and FDA filing prepared by ImClone's partner Merck KGaA "German Merck" not to be confused with the U.

A Congressional hearing on improprieties at ImClone, held in October , unveiled a culture of corruption dating back to This was the year that ImClone CEO Waksal first forged the signature of the company's general counsel John Landes one of the three original employees of the company for financial gain.

Nonetheless, Landes defended Waksal's illegal actions at the hearings before the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, portraying the forgery as "a good-faith misunderstanding". The subcommittee's chairman, Jim Greenwood of Pennsylvania , replied, "My children know better than that, Mr. Instead, testimony revealed that they initiated their own internal investigation, which was never concluded.

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The decades-long tolerance for Waksal's fraud, starting from the company's earliest days, provoked Congressman Peter Deutsch of Florida to refer to the ongoing misconduct as "wacky". The FDA's February announcement of approval for use of Erbitux for treatment of colorectal cancer reported that conclusions were drawn from a trial involving patients, of which When used in conjunction with a standard treatment irinotecan, In January , the company was put up for sale but failed to find any buyers, likely because Erbitux by that time faced significant competition in the medical marketplace.

ImClone directors withdrew the sale of the company in mid In April , Eli Lilly and Company purchased ImClone Systems Inc. Waksal was arrested June 12, on charges of conspiring to commit insider trading. On October 15, he pleaded guilty to charges of securities fraud , bank fraud , obstruction of justice , and perjury.

The art included works by Mark Rothko , Richard Serra , Roy Lichtenstein , and Willem de Kooning , purchased between June and October He did not pay the necessary taxes at the time of purchase, but paid in fall Waksal was released in On June 4, , a federal grand jury in Manhattan indicted Stewart and her former broker, Peter Bacanovic on nine criminal counts.

The charges included securities fraud, obstruction of justice , and conspiracy. Stewart resigned as CEO and chairman of Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia on the same day she was indicted, but remained on the company's board. The day after her indictment, Stewart took out a full-page advertisement in USA Today and launched a website with an open letter of defense "to my friends and loyal supporters.

The government's attempt to criminalize these actions makes no sense to me I am confident I will be exonerated of these baseless charges. On the day she was indicted, the U. Stewart's trial was initially set for January 12, , at the request of her lawyers who said they needed more time to analyze the evidence. The trial eventually began on January 20 in New York City presided over by U.

District Judge Miriam Goldman Cedarbaum.

The judge found that "no reasonable juror can find beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant lied for the purpose of influencing the market for the securities of her own company. The jury deliberated for three days following the five-week trial before reaching its verdict. On March 5, , Stewart was found guilty by a jury of eight women and four men on all four remaining counts against her: Following Stewart's conviction, a message was posted on her website, reading, in part, "I am obviously distressed by the jury's verdict but I continue to take comfort in knowing that I have the confidence and enduring support of my family and friends.

I will appeal the verdict and continue to fight to clear my name. I believe in the fairness of the judicial system and remain confident that I will ultimately prevail.

On July 8, a motion for a new trial was denied and sentencing was set for July Martha Stewart and Peter Bacanovic were each sentenced to five months in prison, five months of home confinement, and two years probation for lying about a stock sale, conspiracy, and obstruction of justice.

The judge stayed the sentence while they prepared their appeals. On September 15, , accompanied by her lawyers and members of the board of directors of Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, Stewart held a press conference to announce her decision to begin serving her sentence as soon as possible while vowing to continue ahead with her appeal.

On September 21, she was ordered by US District Judge Miriam Cedarbaum to surrender by October 8 to begin her sentence. On September 29, the Federal Bureau of Prisons announced that Stewart would serve her sentence at the federal prison camp near Alderson, West Virginia , denying her request to serve it at the federal prison in Danbury, Connecticut. Stewart, who said her prison nickname was "M. Diddy", [15] reportedly got along quite well with her fellow inmates and kept herself busy with assigned cleaning tasks.

She was released on March 4, at After being released from Alderson, Stewart began to serve her home confinement at her estate in Bedford, New York. During the confinement she was permitted to leave her property for up to 48 hours a week to conduct business, but was required to wear an electronic ankle monitor to monitor her location at all times.

On January 6, , a Federal Appeals court denied Stewart's appeal and upheld the jury's verdict. On March 8, , Viacom pulled Martha Stewart Living from its CBS and UPN affiliates, after having moved the show during Stewart's trial from prime daytime timeslots into less desirable early-morning slots e. Stewart had already resigned from the boards of The New York Stock Exchange and Revlon Cosmetics. On May 21, , Larry Stewart no relation , a United States Secret Service lab director who testified for the government against Martha Stewart, was charged with two counts of perjury.

Stock in Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia jumped as much as 23 percent on the news. The charges arose when Susan Fortunato, a Secret Service co-worker, complained that she had in fact done the analysis and that it had never been examined by Stewart. Although the jury at the perjury trial felt that Larry Stewart had taken unfair credit for the work done, it did not amount to perjury and he was found not guilty on October 5, The jury had trouble believing Fortunato, feeling that she had an axe to grind with Stewart.

In October , Stewart was informed that due to her status as a convicted felon in the United States, she was inadmissible for entry into Canada under the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act.

Stewart had planned to attend the Windsor Pumpkin Regatta in Nova Scotia. Within two days of the story's breaking, then Canadian Minister of Citizenship and Immigration Joe Volpe granted Stewart a temporary resident permit, thereby allowing her to temporarily enter Canada.

In June, , the UK Border Agency , operational since 1 April with new rules to safeguard British borders, refused to grant her a visa to enter the United Kingdom , because of her criminal conviction for obstructing justice. She had been planning to speak at the Royal Academy on fashion and leisure industry matters.

In August, , the Securities and Exchange Commission announced that it had agreed to settle the related civil case against Stewart. Under the settlement, Stewart agreed to a five-year bar from serving as a director, or as the CEO, CFO or other officer roles in which she would be responsible for preparing, auditing, or disclosing financial results , of any public company. Behind Bars , based on her time in prison, starred Cybill Shepherd as Stewart and was aired by CBS in September A previous movie, Martha, Inc.: The Story of Martha Stewart , also starring Shepherd, had been aired by NBC in From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

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