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  • #61
    Here's the Smoking Gun's filing on this case...

    MARCH 7--Federal prosecutors want to gag an indicted former Washington, D.C. madam who has recently threatened to go public with details about her former customers. In a motion filed Monday in U.S. Di


    Feds Seek To Gag D.C. Madam
    Prosecutors fear leak of sensitive client, escort information

    MARCH 7--Federal prosecutors want to gag an indicted former Washington, D.C. madam who has recently threatened to go public with details about her former customers. In a motion filed Monday in U.S. District Court, investigators are seeking a protective order covering discovery material to be provided to Deborah Palfrey and her lawyers. Palfrey, 50, was indicted last week on racketeering and money laundering charges stemming from her operation of the Pamela Martin & Associates escort service, which closed last summer after 13 years in business. In their motion, a copy of which you'll find below, government lawyers claim that some discovery documents contain "personal information" about Palfrey's former johns and prostitutes that is "sensitive." The prosecution filing does not detail the nature of this confidential information, though the identity of Palfrey's D.C. customers would surely be cloaked if the protective order was signed by Judge Gladys Kessler. According to the prosecution motion, while Palfrey and her lawyers would be able to use the discovery material to help prepare a defense, they would not be allowed to disclose the documents to anyone else (nor use the material for any other purposes). Palfrey, whose assets were frozen late last year, has recently floated the idea of selling her escort business's phone records. She has also "made statements that could be considered veiled threats to cause embarrassment to former customers and employees," according to the motion. In connection with an asset forfeiture action, Palfrey has sought to depose political consultant Dick Morris, who she has identified as a former escort service client. While no clients are identified in Palfrey's five-count indictment, the charging document indicates that 14 former associates testified before the grand jury that indicted her. Palfrey was previously convicted of operating a prostitution business in California and spent 18 months in prison (where the above mug shot was snapped). Before closing her business, Palfrey operated a web site touting Pamela Martin & Associates as "the best adult agency around," claiming that it had an "ongoing repeat clientele rate of 65-75%." Palfrey's site also advertised for escorts. Prospective hookers, she noted, had to be at least 23 years old with two or more years of college. And her $275-an-appointment employees had to be "weight proportionate to height." (5 pages)
    I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891

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    • #62
      The latest from the WaPo...

      Interesting twists and turns!

      The Washington Sex Scandal That Wasn't?
      Escort Client Numbers Could Have a Taker, but Might Not Add Up to Much

      By Paul Duggan
      Washington Post Staff Writer
      Wednesday, March 14, 2007; B01

      Guess what.

      Change of plans.

      Deborah Jeane Palfrey's client phone numbers aren't up for auction anymore -- at least according to her lawyer.

      The alleged Washington call-girl madam, recently indicted on federal racketeering charges, has decided she wouldn't feel right doing business with some gossipy media outfit that pays for sleaze, her attorney said yesterday.

      So it is possible that the nation's capital will not become embroiled in a raging sex scandal after all. Not right away, anyhow.

      Sorry.

      Oh, she had offers, said the lawyer, Montgomery Blair Sibley. Big-money bids. But it turned out that her conscience wouldn't allow her to truck with journalistic bottom-feeders, Sibley said. Instead, he said, Palfrey will give up her 46 pounds of records for free -- about 10,000 phone numbers dating to 1993 -- for "judicious use" by "a responsible news entity."

      The recipient: "One of the most reputable and respected investigative news organizations in the country," Palfrey told WTOP radio in an e-mail Monday.

      She didn't say who. It wasn't The Washington Post. (Rats!)

      Palfrey's goal, Sibley said, is to track down as many men as she can who used her "legal, high-end erotic fantasy service" and ask them to testify on her behalf -- to rebut the prostitution allegations, to say that they merely indulged in pricey sexual game-playing with Palfrey's female employees, not actual sex.

      Yet just last week, after a court appearance in the District, Palfrey, 50, reiterated a threat she had been making for months. To defray her legal expenses, she said, she planned to peddle the phone numbers of her well-to-do former clients to the highest bidder. She envisioned selling them to a scandal-mongering outfit, one that would research the numbers, find out who they belonged to and publicize the names.

      Although Palfrey "does have a particular recollection of some individuals," Sibley said, her records are mainly just the numbers. And she "lacks the resources" to "thoroughly mine the records" to connect those numbers to names, he said. That's where the "reputable and respected investigative news" outlet comes in.

      Follow along now.

      Palfrey, who employed college-educated women, mostly in their mid-20s, says that as far she knew, her employees and clients engaged in legal sex play -- at $275 per 90-minute session -- in the men's homes or hotel rooms. Her firm, Pamela Martin & Associates, was in business from 1993 until last year. If the women performed sex acts for the money, Palfrey says, they are to blame, not her.

      She wants to find men who will testify that when they called Palfrey's firm to arrange dates, there was no discussion of prostitution, Sibley said.

      In return for the phone numbers, Sibley said, the unidentified reputable media organization has agreed to supply Palfrey with any names it comes up with. And it has agreed to be selective about publicizing them, to refrain from publicly disclosing the names in an indiscriminate, wholesale fashion.

      What about the sex scandal that Palfrey kept promising?

      "I believe that if this news organization identifies people of significance who used the escort service and it decides to make judicious use of those names," Sibley said, "then there may be some social ramifications."

      So that's a yes on the scandal?

      "If you want to call it a scandal, you can. But I think potentially it speaks more to the hypocrisy of the Beltway community."
      I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891

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      • #63
        What does it say about the media that a whore wouldn't feel right being associated with them?
        I make no bones about my moral support for [terrorist] organizations. - chegitz guevara
        For those who aspire to live in a high cost, high tax, big government place, our nation and the world offers plenty of options. Vermont, Canada and Venezuela all offer you the opportunity to live in the socialist, big government paradise you long for. –Senator Rubio

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        • #64
          Hey, she's not a whore!!

          She's a whoremaster.
          "I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure." - Clarence Darrow
          "I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it." - Mark Twain

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          • #65
            Her girls only do sexual games, not sex!

            Look at her more like a D&D dungeonmaster.
            I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891

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            • #66

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              • #67
                Originally posted by DanS
                Look at her more like a D&D dungeonmaster.
                S&M?
                I make no bones about my moral support for [terrorist] organizations. - chegitz guevara
                For those who aspire to live in a high cost, high tax, big government place, our nation and the world offers plenty of options. Vermont, Canada and Venezuela all offer you the opportunity to live in the socialist, big government paradise you long for. –Senator Rubio

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                • #68
                  New class: Madame

                  Armor restrictions: leather armor only

                  Weapons: whips, chains, knives. No bludgeoning weapons, swords or polearms

                  ...

                  Ok, that was half-assed, but it's been a long time since I played any sort of RPG.

                  -Arrian
                  grog want tank...Grog Want Tank... GROG WANT TANK!

                  The trick isn't to break some eggs to make an omelette, it's convincing the eggs to break themselves in order to aspire to omelettehood.

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                  • #69
                    Originally posted by DinoDoc
                    What does it say about the media that a whore wouldn't feel right being associated with them?


                    Whats worse associating with media or associating with known lawyers and lawmakers?
                    "Just puttin on the foil" - Jeff Hanson

                    “In a democracy, I realize you don’t need to talk to the top leader to know how the country feels. When I go to a dictatorship, I only have to talk to one person and that’s the dictator, because he speaks for all the people.” - Jimmy Carter

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                    • #70
                      Lawyers, politicians and reporters... quite possibly the most despised professions on the planet. Hey, at least a whore's clients enjoy the transaction...

                      -Arrian
                      grog want tank...Grog Want Tank... GROG WANT TANK!

                      The trick isn't to break some eggs to make an omelette, it's convincing the eggs to break themselves in order to aspire to omelettehood.

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                      • #71
                        Lawyers

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                        • #72
                          Originally posted by Arrian
                          Lawyers, politicians and reporters... quite possibly the most despised professions on the planet. Hey, at least a whore's clients enjoy the transaction...

                          -Arrian
                          My avatar resents that
                          "A person cannot approach the divine by reaching beyond the human. To become human, is what this individual person, has been created for.” Martin Buber

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                          • #73
                            sounds like she didn't get any serious takers for her list, so she makes some **** up about the media being scumbags.

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                            • #74
                              Originally posted by Arrian
                              Lawyers, politicians and reporters... quite possibly the most despised professions on the planet. Hey, at least a whore's clients enjoy the transaction...

                              -Arrian
                              This story may involve them all!
                              I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891

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                              • #75
                                Hand off!!!

                                Lawyer: News Outlet Has Escort List
                                Mar 16 06:54 PM US/Eastern
                                Associated Press Writer
                                Associated Press Writer

                                WASHINGTON (AP) - A federal judge ruled Friday that a former escort service owner cannot sell phone records and other documents that could be used to publicly identify thousands of her clients.

                                Deborah Jeane Palfrey, 50, has said she planned to sell the list of up to 15,000 client phone numbers and other records to a news organization to help raise money for her defense. The alleged "D.C. Madam" ran Pamela Martin and Associates, an upscale escort service in the Washington area, for 13 years before it closed in August.

                                Palfrey's civil attorney, Montgomery Blair Sibley, said Friday he does not believe the judge's order bars him from distributing copies of the phone records for free.

                                In any event, Sibley said it's a moot point because he has already given copies of the records to an undisclosed news organization. Sibley said the original records are preserved and nothing he has done will prevent prosecutors from inspecting all the materials.

                                Federal prosecutors allege that Palfrey ran a prostitution ring that yielded $2 million in assets, including cash and homes. In October, the federal government froze the assets after a 2 1/2-year investigation by the Internal Revenue Service. Palfrey is suing to have the assets returned.

                                U.S. District Judge Gladys Kessler issued a restraining order against Palfrey on Friday and ordered her not to sell any company records or assets. She set a hearing on the issue for Monday.

                                Sibley has said there were a dozen serious bidders for the 40 pounds of phone records. The bidders ranged from "checkbook journalists to the gold standard of American journalism," Sibley said. Attorneys for people who fear their names will become public have also been after the records, he said.
                                I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891

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