STAR WITNESS.(The Talk of the Town)(Douglas Faneuil at the Martha Stewart trial)

Publication: The New Yorker

Publication Date: 16-FEB-04

Bookmark this article Print this article Link to this article Email this article Digg It! Add to del.icio.us RSS

COPYRIGHT 2004 All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of The Condé Nast Publications Inc.

From 2003, Jeffrey Toobin on Martha Stewart and her legal woes

As crime scenes go, the Merrill Lynch branch office in Rockefeller Center seems to lack a certain grit. This is where Martha Stewart's infamous sale of nearly four thousand shares of ImClone stock was processed, on December 27, 2001, and it was the focus of much testimony at her trial last week. An administrator named Julia Monaghan handled the unique managerial challenges of the branch. It was her job, she testified, to deal with everything from chronic lateness to "somebody wearing too much perfume."

Plenty of crimes take place in offices, of course, but Monaghan--a crisply tailored woman with a bit of an outerborough brogue--seems to have played den mother as much as universe master. After the Securities and Exchange Commission first questioned Douglas Faneuil, the former...

Read the full article for free courtesy of your local library.