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Feds Seek To Gag D.C. Madam, hmm ...

My wife sent me this little diddy from over at The Smoking Gun.

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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."

You can read the 5-page motion for a Protective Order here.
This could be very interesting, a damn lot more interesting than the Libby circus. It's also interesting to note that the span of her business coincides with the length of time the Republicans controlled Congress, go figure.

I want to know how many politico big wigs will get swept up in this if she manages to go public. Could her information clean the halls of Congress?

Inquiring minds want to know.

Any guesses who her repeat customers are???
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Re: Feds Seek To Gag D.C. Madam, hmm ...

I think they want to gag the Madam because, well, they'd "gagged" the Madam in the past...
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I think they want to gag the Madam because, well, they'd "gagged" the Madam in the past...
I thought this sounded familiar ...
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Re: Feds Seek To Gag D.C. Madam, hmm ...

Interesting that they have confiscated all her moneys and property so she want's to sell her little black list to get enough money to defend herself. So they want to stop her.

Suppose there are people in that little Book that they don't want known???

It's a REAL shame that the oldest profession rears it's little head in Washington, isn't it? "NOT"
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Re: Feds Seek To Gag D.C. Madam, hmm ...

Bad for the Democrats if she used women as escorts, bad for the Republicans if she pimped little boys.
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Bad for the Democrats if she used women as escorts, bad for the Republicans if she pimped little boys.
Ooooh, that's so wrong
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Re: Feds Seek To Gag D.C. Madam, hmm ...

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Bad for the Democrats if she used women as escorts, bad for the Republicans if she pimped little boys.
Forgot that the DEMOCRATIC VA senator (I think his name is Webb) wrote a story where a man gets a little boys penis put in his mouth? The guy is a sick phuck in my book. I cannot and will not ever be able to see the reasoning behind writing such a sick thing.
And don't forget that the far leftist organization called the ACLU has defended NAMBLA.

Of course, if she pimped animals, that would be bad for Democrats (but not as bad as pimping little boys).

Finally, I also find it interesting that the Feds want to gag her. I hope she spills the beans and let the chips fall where they may.


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Re: Feds Seek To Gag D.C. Madam, hmm ...

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Forgot that the DEMOCRATIC VA senator (I think his name is Webb) wrote a story where a man gets a little boys penis put in his mouth? The guy is a sick phuck in my book. I cannot and will not ever be able to see the reasoning behind writing such a sick thing.
Link please.

Perhaps you are thinking of Libby/O'Reilly/Mrs Cheney and their erotic books about child molesting, sex with animals and lesbian sex.

Webb wrote the story and produced the movie Rules Of Engagement which starred Tommy Lee Jones and Samuel L Jackson. It's a war movie and has no little boys or penises involved.

Not that any of this has anything to do with the topic of this thread.

I think the madams little black book should be made public, and she should be allowed to sell whatever she needs to to pay for her defense.

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Re: Feds Seek To Gag D.C. Madam, hmm ...

WAIT! I thought sex was private? I thought it didn't matter what people did sexually.
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Re: Feds Seek To Gag D.C. Madam, hmm ...

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Link please.

http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/arc...s_dirty_books/

A related link: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/james-...r_b_32600.html

Just do a search for yourself in Google or Yahoo for "james webb" AND penis. You'll find a lot of links. Interesting that I couldn't find anything about this in any of the major news media (although I didn't look as hard as I could).


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Perhaps you are thinking of Libby/O'Reilly/Mrs Cheney and their erotic books about child molesting, sex with animals and lesbian sex.
No, I'm thinking of liberals who live in blue states and who like sex with animals. For example:
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/htm..._horse15m.html


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Webb wrote the story and produced the movie Rules Of Engagement which starred Tommy Lee Jones and Samuel L Jackson. It's a war movie and has no little boys or penises involved.

Not that any of this has anything to do with the topic of this thread.
No it doesn't but I couldn't let Goob's stupid comment go unchallenged nor could I resist the opportunity to eductate Goober. And if I keep educating him, some day he'll change his name to something like Einstein or Kramer1.

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I think the madams little black book should be made public, and she should be allowed to sell whatever she needs to to pay for her defense.
I agree. And I don't care if most of the names in the book are of Republicans.

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Link please.

Perhaps you are thinking of Libby/O'Reilly/Mrs Cheney and their erotic books about child molesting, sex with animals and lesbian sex.

Webb wrote the story and produced the movie Rules Of Engagement which starred Tommy Lee Jones and Samuel L Jackson. It's a war movie and has no little boys or penises involved.

Not that any of this has anything to do with the topic of this thread.

I think the madams little black book should be made public, and she should be allowed to sell whatever she needs to to pay for her defense.
Then maybe the D.C. hotshots shouldn't have touched her ASSetts.
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Link please.

Perhaps you are thinking of Libby/O'Reilly/Mrs Cheney and their erotic books about child molesting, sex with animals and lesbian sex.

Webb wrote the story and produced the movie Rules Of Engagement which starred Tommy Lee Jones and Samuel L Jackson. It's a war movie and has no little boys or penises involved.

Not that any of this has anything to do with the topic of this thread.

I think the madams little black book should be made public, and she should be allowed to sell whatever she needs to to pay for her defense.
No link, but apparently you missed it. Webb and his opponent were in a literary battle,his book, vs the book written by his opponent's sister. but web won the seat. He was showing this opponent was a vicious wife beater, and his opponent brought out this story. It is factual. and he did use, as an excuse, that his book was Fiction. Where the other book wasn't.
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Then maybe the D.C. hotshots shouldn't have touched her ASSetts.
HEH HEH Well said
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Re: Feds Seek To Gag D.C. Madam, hmm ...

I don't think we would have heard of this issue, if the federal government didn't overstep its authority to prohibit private transactions between consenting adults.
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No it doesn't but I couldn't let Goob's stupid comment go unchallenged nor could I resist the opportunity to eductate Goober. And if I keep educating him, some day he'll change his name to something like Einstein or Kramer1.
I was thinking that when these scandals happen in Washington, it's usually Republicans that get caught with the little boys.

The Child Prostitution Sex Ring Involving the Bush Whitehouse

Franklin Coverup Scandal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Johnny Gosch History


I mean, wasn't that why they were so disgusted at Clinton, because he had sex with an icky girl.............
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