Letter: Will Frist get Martha’s treatment?

Wednesday, Oct. 12, 2005 | 8:17 a.m.

Will Frist get Martha's treatment?

I keep wondering if the Justice Department is going to pursue Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist with the same intensity and vehemence as it did with Martha Stewart.

From what I read in the papers and on the Internet there are many similarities in their cases. They both bailed out of their investments just before the investment tanked. Both claimed that they were not privy to any insider information and it really was just a brilliant stroke of luck.

No way would the Justice Department buy that from Martha and she was summarily treated like a dangerous felon. She did the crime and they made sure that the public was protected by seeing that she did the time -- in spades in fact. She drifted a little too far than her house arrest boundary and her location monitor sounded the alarm and she had some extra time tacked on.

I hope that Senator Frist is not treated as harshly as "Malicious Martha." How would that look on his resume if indeed he is a GOP candidate in the next presidential election?

Joseph J. Carbone Las Vegas