· martha stewart s fellow prison inmates are offering some insight into her time in prison back in the early aughts, after she was accused of insider trading. She called her incarceration horrifying and said it was not a growth experience, but a very, very awful thing. · after a highly publicized trial in 2004, stewart was found guilty of charges including conspiracy and obstruction of justice, resulting in a five-month prison sentence and two years of probation. · in the early 2000s, however, stewart made headlines for something very different — an insider trading scandal that landed her in federal prison for five months. Stewart , 83, did not mince. · martha stewart served five months in a minimum-security prison camp for financial crimes in 2004. · martha stewart was convicted of obstruction of justice and securities fraud in 2004 and spent five months in a federal prison in west virginia. · new details about martha stewart s stint in prison have emerged, and her time behind bars was anything but pleasant. Learn about her conviction, her living conditions, her work, and her comeback after prison. Cutler included interviews, archival footage, and stewarts private letters. Netflixs documentary martha tells her story, and director r. j. · martha stewart served five months in prison for lying to investigators about a stock trade in imclone systems, a biopharmaceutical company. Learn the details of her trial, conviction and comeback in a new cnn miniseries.
