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Minding Your Business: Sam's Cell
Aired July 23, 2003 - 07:47 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
BILL HEMMER, CNN ANCHOR: Later today, Sam Waksal starts his prison sentence. What is his new home look like?
Andy Serwer has been looking into that and checks in now "Minding Your Business."
How goes it?
ANDY SERWER, "FORTUNE" MAGAZINE: I'm doing just fine. Those new prison digs?
HEMMER: Yes.
SERWER: Rather spartan. We're going to take a look at them. We have some pictures of Sam Waksal, of course, the founder of ImClone Systems, starting up. This is the jail, the Schuylkill correctional facility in Minersville, PA. Do you see those flower beds, you guys?
HEMMER: Yes.
SERWER: He's going to be working them. He's going to be weeding.
SOLEDAD O'BRIEN, CNN ANCHOR: They dont look very big.
SERWER: He's going to be weeding. You're right. Maybe he can plant some more flowers. You're right, Soledad.
Now, that is what his bed, his sleeping area will look like. We don't know if that's actually the one he's going to be in. I don't know if he'll be lucky enough to get No. 7, but you see those little numbers there. A little bit different from his Soho (ph) loft. I don't know. Do we have those pictures of him leaving? Here we go. This is footage of him leaving his apartment in Soho (ph) and getting into that wheel and going -- I mean, do you drive yourself to jail? I mean, that's a question, right, if you're (UNINTELLIGIBLE).
BILL HEMMER, CNN ANCHOR: You were talking yesterday about some of the perks he was getting, too.
SERWER: Well, he gets 300...
HEMMER: Perks in a way.
SERWER: Yes, 300 minutes of phone time, and they do have a basketball court, a little baseball diamond, a rec room. I mean, this isn't one of these things, these prisons, country clubs are not. And, you know, people would say -- you know, some people would say they aren't and some people say they are. I mean, they're certainly a lot cushier than Sing Sing, I'll tell you that.
O'BRIEN: The picture of the beds, it doesnt like it's enclosed at all. Is that just because of the way the picture is taken? Or is it really like an open dorm?
SERWER: No, it is an open dorm like that. I mean, I was sort of surprised. It had a little bit of a wall actually. I mean, there is a little bit...
O'BRIEN: But it's only a half wall.
SERWER: There is a half wall. There's a little bit of privacy, but not a whole lot.
O'BRIEN: That's really minimum security, isn't it?
SERWER: Well, I mean, there is a door. But, you know, it is a barracks-like kind of deal, isn't it?
O'BRIEN: Yes, maybe it's just the angle of the picture.
SERWER: Right, there you go, yes.
HEMMER: Lucky No. 7.
SERWER: We can peek over the top if that's what you're driving at, definitely.
HEMMER: Hey, other than Sam Waksal, there's news about Martha Stewart. What gives there?
SERWER: Well, an interesting survey just out today showing that consumers may be not, you know, so nice to her in terms of wanting to buy her stuff. I mean, a real erosion here in terms of her popularity, in terms of people wanting to buy products. Twenty-eight percent of those surveyed said they're less likely to buy her wares now as opposed to last year when it was 17 percent. It really shows that people -- you know, that she's not the Teflon devo that people said she was going to be, that this stuff really does matter, and people don't like it. They don't like this criminal stuff or the accessions of.
O'BRIEN: It will be interesting to see how much that number goes down as this whole entire thing goes along.
SERWER: Yes, absolutely.
O'BRIEN: Thank you, Andy.
HEMMER: Thank you, Andy.
SERWER: OK.
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Aired July 23, 2003 - 07:47 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
BILL HEMMER, CNN ANCHOR: Later today, Sam Waksal starts his prison sentence. What is his new home look like?
Andy Serwer has been looking into that and checks in now "Minding Your Business."
How goes it?
ANDY SERWER, "FORTUNE" MAGAZINE: I'm doing just fine. Those new prison digs?
HEMMER: Yes.
SERWER: Rather spartan. We're going to take a look at them. We have some pictures of Sam Waksal, of course, the founder of ImClone Systems, starting up. This is the jail, the Schuylkill correctional facility in Minersville, PA. Do you see those flower beds, you guys?
HEMMER: Yes.
SERWER: He's going to be working them. He's going to be weeding.
SOLEDAD O'BRIEN, CNN ANCHOR: They dont look very big.
SERWER: He's going to be weeding. You're right. Maybe he can plant some more flowers. You're right, Soledad.
Now, that is what his bed, his sleeping area will look like. We don't know if that's actually the one he's going to be in. I don't know if he'll be lucky enough to get No. 7, but you see those little numbers there. A little bit different from his Soho (ph) loft. I don't know. Do we have those pictures of him leaving? Here we go. This is footage of him leaving his apartment in Soho (ph) and getting into that wheel and going -- I mean, do you drive yourself to jail? I mean, that's a question, right, if you're (UNINTELLIGIBLE).
BILL HEMMER, CNN ANCHOR: You were talking yesterday about some of the perks he was getting, too.
SERWER: Well, he gets 300...
HEMMER: Perks in a way.
SERWER: Yes, 300 minutes of phone time, and they do have a basketball court, a little baseball diamond, a rec room. I mean, this isn't one of these things, these prisons, country clubs are not. And, you know, people would say -- you know, some people would say they aren't and some people say they are. I mean, they're certainly a lot cushier than Sing Sing, I'll tell you that.
O'BRIEN: The picture of the beds, it doesnt like it's enclosed at all. Is that just because of the way the picture is taken? Or is it really like an open dorm?
SERWER: No, it is an open dorm like that. I mean, I was sort of surprised. It had a little bit of a wall actually. I mean, there is a little bit...
O'BRIEN: But it's only a half wall.
SERWER: There is a half wall. There's a little bit of privacy, but not a whole lot.
O'BRIEN: That's really minimum security, isn't it?
SERWER: Well, I mean, there is a door. But, you know, it is a barracks-like kind of deal, isn't it?
O'BRIEN: Yes, maybe it's just the angle of the picture.
SERWER: Right, there you go, yes.
HEMMER: Lucky No. 7.
SERWER: We can peek over the top if that's what you're driving at, definitely.
HEMMER: Hey, other than Sam Waksal, there's news about Martha Stewart. What gives there?
SERWER: Well, an interesting survey just out today showing that consumers may be not, you know, so nice to her in terms of wanting to buy her stuff. I mean, a real erosion here in terms of her popularity, in terms of people wanting to buy products. Twenty-eight percent of those surveyed said they're less likely to buy her wares now as opposed to last year when it was 17 percent. It really shows that people -- you know, that she's not the Teflon devo that people said she was going to be, that this stuff really does matter, and people don't like it. They don't like this criminal stuff or the accessions of.
O'BRIEN: It will be interesting to see how much that number goes down as this whole entire thing goes along.
SERWER: Yes, absolutely.
O'BRIEN: Thank you, Andy.
HEMMER: Thank you, Andy.
SERWER: OK.
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