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wednesday, february 11, 2004
Assistant testifies in Stewart trial
The Associated Press
NEW YORK—With an investigation looming, Martha Stewart sat down at her assistant's computer and altered a record of a message left by her stockbroker about ImClone Systems stock, the assistant testified yesterday.
Stewart immediately stood up and ordered the message restored to its original wording, Ann Armstrong said.
Prosecutors hope the testimony will bolster the essential point of their case — that Stewart tried to cover her tracks after she dumped her ImClone shares in December 2001.
In hopes of convincing jurors Stewart lied about the sale, the government followed Armstrong's testimony with that of a government investigator who said Stewart later claimed not to recall seeing the message at all.
The original message read: "Peter Bacanovic thinks ImClone is going to start trading downward." It reflected a call by Bacanovic on Dec. 27, 2001, the day Stewart sold her 3,928 shares in the company.
Armstrong testified Stewart saw the message about a month later, on Jan. 31, 2002, and replaced it with the words: "Peter Bacovic re elmclone."
Armstrong told jurors she was "startled" by Stewart's conduct, and that she had never before altered a message in the log, which Armstrong maintains at Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia. Stewart's media company.
"She instantly stood up, still standing at my desk, and told me to put it back to the way it was," the assistant testified at Stewart's stock-fraud trial in federal court.
Several days later, Stewart claimed she did not recall any record of Bacanovic's message from the day of the sale, according to Helene Glotzer, a Securities and Exchange Commission lawyer.
Glotzer testified that Stewart also said she did not recall hearing that ImClone founder Sam Waksal and his family were trying to dump ImClone stock. Stewart also said she sold her ImClone stock in a call with Bacanovic, Glotzer said. His assistant, Douglas Faneuil, handled the sale.
500-pound bomb kills 50 in Iraq
The Associated Press
ISKANDARIYAH, Iraq — A truck packed with an estimated 500 pounds of explosives blew up yesterday morning at a police station south of Baghdad. A hospital official said at least 50 people were killed and 50 others wounded.
U. S. officials in Baghdad reported 35 dead and 75 wounded but said those figures could be low since Iraqi authorities were handling the investigation.
Kimmitt, deputy operations chief, said it was too early to say who was responsible and that it was unclear whether the blast was triggered by a suicide driver.
Lt. Col. Abdul Rahim Saleh the local Iraqi police commander, said the attack was a suicide operation, carried out by a driver who detonated a red pickup as it passed the station.
Lt. Gen. Ahmed Kadhum Ibrahim, Iraqi policeman, said in Baghdad the engine number of the vehicle used in the attack indicated it used to belong to a former intelligence officer in Saddam Hussein's regime.
In Baghdad, Brig. Gen. Mark
The police opened fire in the air to disperse dozens of angry residents who stormed the site after hearing rumors the blast was caused by an American rocket. "No, no to America! The police are traitors; not Sunnis, not Shilites! This crime was by the Americans!" the crowd shouted before leaving.
Bishop denies charge
The Associated Press
PHOENIX — Bishop Thomas O'Brien conceded during his hit-and-run trial yesterday that he asked about getting his windshield fixed even though he knew police were investigating whether the car had been involved in a deadly accident.
"I was interested in getting the windshield fixed at some time," the Roman Catholic clergyman said in his second day on the witness stand. "There is no way I would have gotten that windshield fixed that day."
A diocesan secretary testified earlier that O'Brien called her about the windshield, which was smashed when O'Brien's car hit a pedestrian, the Monday after the weekend accident. She said she thought O'Brien wanted it fixed the same day.
But O'Brien said the secretary might have misunderstood him.
The bishop has said he initially thought has car had been hit by a rock or a dog. Prosecutors have argued that O'Brien knew or should have known that he hit a pedestrian on the night of June 14.
The 68-year-old bishop is accused of leaving the scene of an accident that killed Jim Reed. If convicted, O'Brien could get nearly four years in prison.
His arrest ended his 21-year career as head of the Phoenix Diocese. The accident occurred less than two weeks after prosecutors announced O'Brien had struck a deal to avoid indictment on obstruction charges for protecting child-molesting priests.
The bishop was told by a diocesan official, Monsignor Dale Fushek, the day after the accident that police were concerned the car might have been involved in a fatal accident, but O'Brien did not speak to police until the next day. Monday.
"All this time had elapsed and police had still not contacted me," O'Brien said. "That led me to believe what happened Saturday night did not involve me."
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