Martha Stewart Says “Idiot” Prosecutors in 2004 Conviction “Should Have Been Put In a Cuisinart and Turned on High”

Published Oct. 30, 2024, 8:30 a.m. ET

Martha Stewart doesn’t mince words erstwhile asked astir her felony condemnation in Martha, a caller Netflix documentary that began streaming today—but she does make it clear she’d for illustration to mince nan FBI officials who pursued nan case.

“Those prosecutors should person been put successful a Cuisinart and turned connected high,” Stewart says firmly, erstwhile asked astir her 2004 tribunal case. You get nan consciousness this isn’t nan first clip she’s uttered that peculiar sentence.

Directed by R.J. Cutler, Martha walks viewers done nan life and profession of nan 83-year-old businesswoman, from her childhood, to her successful homemaking guides, to her to billion-dollar company, and, finally, to her infamous incarceration. In nan early 2000s, Stewart and different labor of Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia were successful investigated by nan FBI for insider trading. Though Stewart was not personally charged pinch insider trading, successful 2004 she was recovered guilty connected 4 counts of obstructing justness and lying to investigators. Former FBI head James Comey led nan complaint connected nan prosecution. (Comey was fired from nan bureau by erstwhile president Donald Trump in 2017.)

According to Stewart, Comey unfairly pursued her because of her fame, successful bid to make nan FBI look arsenic though it was doing thing astir white-collar crime.

“It was truthful horrifying to maine that I had to spell done that to beryllium a trophy for these idiots successful nan U.S. Attorney’s Office,” Stewart says successful nan documentary. “I was a trophy. A salient woman, nan first billionaire female successful America: ‘We sewage her.'”

James Comey (L), U.S. lawyer for nan FBI’s South District, discusses nan charges being brought up connected Martha Stewart successful 2003. Photo: Monika Graff/Getty Images

Last month, Stewart blasted director R.J. Cutler for including a talking caput question and reply pinch Comey successful his documentary. “Comey says, ‘Oh, she’s going to jailhouse because she lied, not because she committed a crime’—some crap,” Stewart told The Daily Beast. “And [Cutler doesn’t put] underneath, ‘Comey was fired for lying.'”

No question and reply pinch Comey appears successful nan last trim of nan documentary, truthful possibly Stewart sewage her wish. That said, Cutler does see archived footage of Comey announcing Stewart’s indictment—so possibly that’s nan infinitesimal Stewart was referring to.

After her conviction, Stewart was sentenced to 5 months successful national prison, and a 2 years play of supervised release, including 5 months pinch an ankle bracelet. The past 3rd of nan documentary is mostly dedicated to Stewart’s clip down bars, including excerpts from nan diary she kept while there. She even, astatine 1 point, was taken to solitary confinement for rubbing an officer.

“I was dragged to solitary for rubbing an officer. No nutrient aliases h2o for a day,” Stewart says. “This was Camp Cupcake, remember? That was nan nickname. Camp Cupcake. It was not a cupcake.”