Douglas Faneuil, an assistant to Martha Stewart's stockbroker, listens to his attorney, Marc Powers, outside federal court in New York last October after Faneuil pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge that he was paid to keep secret information allegedly given to Stewart about ImClone Systems Inc. (AP file photo / October 2, 2002) |
NEW YORK—
Here are the texts of e-mails sent by Douglas Faneuil to a friend. The e-mails were introduced as evidence Thursday in the trial of Martha Stewart and her former stockbroker, Peter Bacanovic.The defense intends to portray Faneuil as fixated with Stewart or out to get her. The e-mails were written before the well-timed stock trade that led to charges against Stewart and Bacanovic.
E-mail from Faneuil to a friend on Oct. 23, 2001:
Subj: "I just spoke to MARTHA!"
"I have never, ever been treated so rudely by a stranger on the telephone. She actually hung up on me! And she had the nerve -- the NERVE -- the [sic] mention the layoffs in her anger. She said, 'Do you know who the hell is answering your phones? You call and you know what he sounds like? He sounds like this.' And then she made the most ridiculous sound I've heard coming from an adult in quite some time, kind of like a lion roaring underwater. I laughed; I thought she was joking. And then she yelled ... 'Merrill Lynch is laying off ten thousand employees because of people like that idiot!' And then she hung up."
E-mail from Faneuil to a friend on Oct. 26, 2001:
"Martha yelled at me again today, but I snapped in her face and she actually backed down! Baby put Ms. Martha in her place."
