re: Martha Stewart on ethics,
the only thing that Martha did that was actually illegal was lie to the investigators regarding her conversation with her stockbroker.
- one can also blame her lawyers for not preparing her properly.
both Bush W. and Cheney also sold stocks with insider knowledge before they tanked.
Im not defending Martha's illadvised actions, but unlike most of the fat cat CEOs of Enron WOrldCom Ken Lay and the like, Martha built her company from the ground up -starting out with a catering business.

Most of the other bigwig CEOs took credit when the times were good
and blamed the economy when they were bad, all the while helping themselves to multi-millions in unexpensed stock options, while cooking the books.