The DC madam with a novel defense strategy recently had the hold on her client list lifted, and she has already claimed another scalp. Sen. David Vitter (R-La.) apologized last night after his telephone number appeared in the phone records of the woman dubbed the “D.C. Madam,” making him the first member of Congress to …
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
Republicans are so funny, what with their family values and everything: U.S. Sen. David Vitter can use campaign funds to pay some legal costs from his involvement in an escort service scandal, according to a draft opinion prepared for the Federal Election Commission. The commission is scheduled to take up the issue Thursday, when it …
RIP: DC Madam
Deborah Jean Palfrey has apparently hanged herself.
Double Standards
This seems unfair: A Navy supply officer and former Naval Academy instructor testified Thursday that she moonlighted as a prostitute for the D.C. Madam, a California woman accused of running an escort service that prosecutors say netted her several million dollars over a 13-year period. Lt. Cmdr. Rebecca Dickinson told federal prosecutors at U.S. District …
God Does Not Love Me This Much
Please disregard the Palfrey-related rumors floating around Washington. They’re probably bogus. But if true, I cannot tell you what lengths I will go to avoid reading the Starr Report about it. Seriously. If Wolf Blitzer has a celebrity panel talking about distinguishing marks I might put a brick through my teevee.
There’s That Name Again
Atrios: Just caught Juan Williams on NPR discussing the cocktail party chatter – apparently it does exist! – about the “DC Madam” story. He says the chatter is that the direction the story is likely to go in is going to be Abramoff like in that it’ll come out that escort services were handed out …
The Jack Abramoff Of Sex
For whatever reason the newsreading public loves them a sex scandal. Maybe illicit sex is easier to understand than white collar crime (to illustrate, please write down what exactly Jack Abramoff did wrong. you have five minutes). It could have to do with that extra dose of personal humiliation. It probably owes more than we …