Posted on 03/09/2007 10:52:03 AM PST by Zakeet
The so-called "Beltway Madam" pleaded not guilty to federal racketeering and money laundering charges in federal court Friday.
Prosecutors say Deborah Jean Palfrey, 50, ran a call-girl service in the Washington, D.C. area for 13 years, taking appointments from her California home and dispatching women to luxury hotels in Washington and Baltimore. They say the service promoted prostitution.
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Palfrey, who was indicted last week, is threatening to release her little black book of 10,000 clients on the Internet to pay for her defense.
She writes on her Web site that "consideration is being given to selling the entire 46 pounds of detailed and itemized phone records for the 13-year period, to raise the requisite defense funds."
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Not only is Palfrey threatening to expose, embarrass and possibly subpoena clients, but she's taking a combative tone with prosecutors. On her Web site, she admits e-mailing them and promising to make the legal situation "long and unpleasant."
Palfrey claims her business, which she calls an adult fantasy firm, is completely legitimate and provided services that are legal — like erotic dancing — across the spectrum of adult sexual behavior.
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Why did she weigh it?
I'd bet that she sells many of them one at a time.
Probably because measuring phone records by poundage gives guilty imaginations more fodder. Saying "I'll release the last 10 years of phone records" is just a number. Saying "I have 50 pounds of paper with details" makes people "see" that pile of paper in their mind, and start imagining what's on those pages.
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