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Martha Stewart, the Merrill Lynch Assistant, and the Allowable Inferences of Implausible Testimony
When viewers tune into VH1's Martha & Snoop's Potluck Dinner Party these days, most may not know (or have forgotten) that Martha Stewart served five months in prison for lying to federal investigators. The case involved Stewart's sale of 3,928 ImClone shares on December 27, 2001. That day Stewart's broker, Peter Bacanovic of Merrill Lynch, was on vacation when he received a call from his assistant, Douglas Faneuil. Faneuil told him that Sam Waksal, the chairman of ImCone (and a Merrill Lynch cli...
David Sugden
Dave is a business trial lawyer who is an ABOTA member and has been recognized from 2020 - 2023 as one of the “Top 50 Super Lawyers in Orange County,” and previously recognized by California’s Daily Journal as one of “California’s 20 Top Attorneys Under 40”.
He has represented business entities both as a plaintiff and defendant throughout the country.
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