Martha Stewart
>> it was one of those cases where you could see the things the jury considered in reaching its verdict on martha stewart and peter bacanovic and rejected the testimony and charges that% -related to the evidence about which larry stewart testified so it had no impact and the judge, i think, fairly and properly ruled on that.
>> certainly it had a public relations impact that must not have made you very happy.
>> i'm not really in the public relations business. obviously, there's an aspect of law enforcement that is public relations because it's important for the public to know what we're doing, it's important for the public to know what type of conduct will be tolerated and not. and i think it's very important for the public to know that, really, our judicial system has to be completely sterile of any sort of misconduct.
>> what about, again, take another case, hollinger and conrad black. i gather hollinger has put out an internal 500-page report investigating alleged improprieties there. is that the kind of thing that the company would bring to your attention or that would come to your attention?
>> the hollinger case is not one with which i'm personally familiar but i can speak generally about companies self reporting and obviously that's something we think is very important for how we proceed in any corporate fraud investigation, and the self reporting has increased over time, which i think is a very, very good barometer of how i think good corporate citizenship is on the rise on some level.
>> the influence of organized crime, traditional mafia families on wall street, dealing particularly in penny stocks, has anything developed in that area recently?
>> you know, the timing that first came out was 1997 when we first brought the largest case of the mob's involvement on wall street really exploiting the over indulgent penny stock market and doing a lot of pump-and-dump schemes and i think the impact our cases had and that was not the only one, first of several, really had an impact on the mob and what i'd say that they're completely out of the market ? no, but certainly in no way, shape or form are they involved to the degree we saw back then. but in short answer, is the mob out? no. where there's a buck to be made, you'll find the mob.
>> let's talk about terrorism. you've been one of the key terrorist prosecutors. where do you see the fight against terrorism at the moment?
>> if a guy is associated with the mob or a member of the mob and he does so much as commit a traffic violation, we're going to prosecute him and make it as hard as possible to operate because as much as he can live within his ability to operate, you're going to take a swipe at organized crime and that's the approach we're taking with terrorism. to go back and look, what is it that are the types of activities that are likely to facilitate a terrorist-in-waiting. and you look at immigration fraud, credit card fraud, you look i at identity theft and those are the types of things where you're going to find that you stir up activity there and prosecute those crimes, it makes it much more difficult for terrorists or people who would engage in terrorist activities to be mobile and facilitate the crime that they may be considering or planning with their confederates.
>> kelley says the capture of terrorists overseas may lead to new cases here and he says that if osama bin laden is caught, he is already under indictment in new york.
>> two days ago we heard from the "new york daily news" that mark burnet and martha stewart might be teaming up to do tv programming, he, of course, famous for the creation of "survival" and now the company is stating that the two will link up. and they say now that we're able to anticipate her return, the collaboration will bring excitement and surprise to their original how-to programming and also interesting, they've issued mark burnett a warrant to buy 2.5 million shares at $12.59. the stock just about at $15 right now.
>> he obviously thinks she has ingredients to be the ultimate survivor. her sentence allows her to work 48 hours a week for the five months she's at home. maybe she's allowed to make the tv program while she's serving her prison time. their tv studios are in westport, connecticut, and she's in danbury in the home arrest portion of it.
>> she'll do it in the backyard.
>> the spring planting, how-to programming, the ultimate survivor.
>> and maybe beating the average 12 to 25 cents per hour wage for a prisoner.
