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STEWART RELYING ON PEOPLE SHE PAYS TO TESTIFY IN HER DEFENSE
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NEW
YORK – Martha Stewart's defense team began
its counterattack on the prosecution's case today,
calling an unbiased witness beyond repute –
Stewart's friend and business manager, Heidi DeLuca.
DeLuca
assured jurors that, although her job depended on
Stewart's acquittal, her boss "really was 100%
innocent."
"Even before I received my $300,000 'performance
bonus,' I would've testified that Martha had an
pre-existing agreement to sell her ImClone stock,"
DeLuca told the packed courtroom. "But
now I'm going to testify like I believe it."
DeLuca also undermined the government's case by
claiming that her boss would never have broken the
law for such a small amount. "Martha
was worth more than $500 million dollars.
Why would she risk everything for another hundred
thousand?"
"She'd have to be an arrogant, conniving bitch
who thought she was better than everybody else,"
DeLuca surmised. "Like someone who'd
start a K-Mart clothing line even though she wouldn't
be caught dead shopping there. Umm, well,
never mind."
After moving to strike DeLuca's previous comment,
defense attorneys promised jurors that DeLuca was
merely the first of dozens of self-interested witnesses
who would come forward to support Stewart's version
of the facts.
"Who are you going to believe?" Stewart’s
attorney Robert Morvillo asked the jury. "Martha's
closest friends and family, or the same government
that told you Iraq had tons of weapons of mass destruction?"
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