Posted on 07/05/2007 10:38:05 PM PDT by leadpenny
53 minutes ago
WASHINGTON - A woman accused of running a prostitution ring in the nation's capital is free to distribute thousands of pages of phone records after a federal judge lifted a restraining order on Thursday.
U.S. District Court Judge Gladys Kessler's order granted the request of Deborah Jeane Palfrey, 51, of Vallejo, Calif., to quash restrictions by government prosecutors that prohibited her from giving away the list.
"As a result, Jeane has determined to release those records under certain conditions to qualified individuals or organizations," wrote her attorney, Montgomery Blair Sibley, in an e-mail.
Palfrey and her attorney have said the list contains up to 15,000 names and could shake up Washington by revealing high-profile individuals.
Prosecutors had won two temporary restraining orders to prevent her from distributing the list, first to preserve its availability, and then to prevent the harassment of potential witnesses through its distribution.
But prosecutors' arguments did not hold up, the judge ruled. The availability of the list is not in jeopardy and it was not seized or listed with her other assets that were subject to forfeiture, Kessler wrote.
Freezing "the personal property of an individual, not yet convicted of any crime" would be an extraordinary step, the requirements of which government prosecutors failed to satisfy, the judge wrote.
Palfrey is facing federal racketeering and conspiracy charges for running what she says was a legal escort service. Prosecutors say the business netted more than $2 million from 1993 to 2006.
Should we care?
We?
Depends on what you have in your pocket?
If she only releases names from the right side of the aisle, yes.
I for one am very interested.
Prostitution is against the law. I’m not a straight libertarian and I see both porn and whores as ruining good men. When the good men are ruined, everything socially goes downhill.
I’d like to know who’s in the prostitution trap, because I don’t want them in power.
She won't. She'll sell names to bidders, NBC, ABC, CNN, CBS, etc......... they'll release nomes on the right.
ABC Disney News isn’t going to be happy. They cheered when they got to leak a low level member of the Bush Administration. Now the floodgates open (they’ve held their own copy of the list but played partisan politics and said the “rest” were a bunch of “nobodies”).
Should be published on the internet so wives and girfriends of all these dogs in DC can look at the list. Time for a major house cleaning in washington. If thisn helps to get rid of the scum then lets use it.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1859586/posts
D.C. madam vows to release records (Threatens White House)
Times-Herald ^ | 07/01/2007 | MATTHIAS GAFNI
Posted on 07/02/2007 10:12:17 AM EDT by tlb
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1799966/posts
Alleged Vallejo madam agrees to share phone records (Washington, DC Clients)
San Francisco Chronicle ^ | March 12, 2007 | Henry K. Lee
Posted on 03/13/2007 5:07:11 AM EDT by tlb
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1802181/posts
Judge: Accused ‘D.C. Madam’ can’t sell records
Associated Press ^ | Friday, March 16, 2007 | A/P
Posted on 03/16/2007 9:36:29 PM EDT by mmanager
Ruh Roh guys ... you’re screwed .... er, ... I mean .... ne’er mind.
Washington D.C. : 78 square miles, surrounded by reality.
Now THAT would be worth a few furious E-Mails if it is determined that there were more than a few somebodies on the list! There are going to be two sets of names uncovered - the clients AND the providers!
Of course we should. Our favorite politicians may be on her list.
I can't wait to see how many congress critters get busted. I'm sure there will be some nervous politicians in DC tomorrow. LOL
Dear Jeane:
Please misspell my name.
For some reason lefty blogs have been spreading a rumor that Cheney might be involved in this.
It all depends upon your definition of a good man.
I’m sure the moonbats blame Cheney for the black plague too, so claiming he’s on the list isn’t too far of a stretch for them.
Only because they might have paid Cheney to sire quality offspring :)
/ sarcasm
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