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Martha serves up whopper of expense report

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NEW YORK, Nov. 10 (UPI) -- Martha Stewart, serving time in a West Virginia prison for lying about a stock trade, has served up an expense report that is no small potatoes.

The head of Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia wants the company she founded to pay her $3.7 million to help with her legal bills, CNN reported Wednesday.

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Stewart, convicted this year for lying to investigators and obstructing justice in the 2001 sale of ImClone Systems stock, and her company have agreed in principle to submit the question of whether she is entitled to the money to an independent expert on Delaware law, where the company is incorporated.

The company she founded and still controls by her majority shareholder status said that, if she is entitled to the money, the payment would be covered under its directors' and officers' insurance coverage, and not taken from company funds.

Stewart is serving a five-month sentence at a minimum security federal prison in West Virginia and then will do five months of home detention once she is released.

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