[Decolliber]

Gives me an idea for a new HBO series - a female version of Oz. Martha would be one of the white gang leaders (a female Shilinger, or whatever his name is).

More seriously, I do think she was treated harshly - because she is rich, female and (by reputation) not very nice, or least very arrogant. People love to hate her for the same reason they love to hate Bill Gates. Why do Americans have this ambivalence about financially successful people?

And remember that George Bush the Younger dumped all the shares in his own oil company before it went bankrupt, and never got prosecuted. And what about Cheney getting his pals at Haliburton the Iraq contracts? Surely these sorts of things are far more damaging to society than Martha avoiding some capital losses.