Witness in Stewart Trial Dies of Heart Attack
Jeremiah Gutman, the former lawyer for Douglas Faneuil, the government’s main witness in the Martha Stewart trial, died of a heart attack Wednesday, two days after he was summoned to the witness stand by the defense.
He was 80. Gutman was “on his way to work and died after a heart attack at the train station in Hastings-on-Hudson,” N.Y., his secretary, Aminah Abdallah, said.
Stewart’s codefendant and former Merrill Lynch & Co. broker, Peter Bacanovic, called Gutman as a witness in an effort to discredit testimony given by Faneuil.
* The judge overseeing the trial granted a request by the media to release the names of jurors when they deliver their verdict. A federal appeals court had ruled that U.S. District Judge Miram Goldman Cedarbaum was wrong to bar reporters and the public from watching jury selection last month.
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