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Lawyer: News Outlet Has Escort List(Palfrey's List)
AP ^ | Mar 16 | AP Writer

Posted on 03/19/2007 9:32:20 AM PDT by tcrlaf

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

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: corruption; dcmadam; hookers; palfrey; pamelamartin; vitter
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To: tcrlaf; Alamo-Girl
She operated 13 years, and from what I've read elsewhere, specialized in LESBIANS?

Hmmm. Just about the time Mary Caitrin Mahoney took her place as one of Bill Clinton's first crop of White House interns.

21 posted on 03/19/2007 9:48:20 AM PDT by archy (Et Thybrim multo spumantem sanguine cerno. [from Virgil's *Aeneid*.])
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To: Dante3
MSM sure has acted timid regarding this list. Since at least one news outlet has the names, how come nothing has been reported?

My guess: Because both Pubbies and 'Rats are on the list and there's a MAD strategy underway, in other words if the Pubbies fink on the 'Rats, the 'Rats will fink on the Pubbies. Betcha there are some journos on the list as well.

Somebody's got to get their mitts on that list and let it ALL hang out.

22 posted on 03/19/2007 9:48:22 AM PDT by mewzilla (Property must be secured or liberty cannot exist. John Adams)
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To: mewzilla
And since there's probably a lot of fodder for blackmail in that list, it's a national security concern as well.

And another reason why character counts.

23 posted on 03/19/2007 9:49:26 AM PDT by mewzilla (Property must be secured or liberty cannot exist. John Adams)
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To: navyguy
50 bucks says Cold Cash Jefferson is on that list.

100 says Joe Scarborough would give away his banjo to get off that list.

24 posted on 03/19/2007 9:49:59 AM PDT by fruitintheroom
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To: Dante3

" MSM sure has acted timid regarding this list '

Perhaps some of the MSM are on the list.


25 posted on 03/19/2007 9:50:33 AM PDT by Wild Irish Rogue
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To: tcrlaf

Rather than "who is on the list?", a bigger question to me is what did she do after 13 years to get shut down? Her business was certaily known to many of the DC elite and she was most likely "allowed" to operate.


26 posted on 03/19/2007 9:51:52 AM PDT by NorthFlaRebel
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To: Dante3
MSM sure has acted timid regarding this list. Since at least one news outlet has the names, how come nothing has been reported?

For good reason probably 95% of the names (with telephone numbers) belong to democ'Rats and their enablers in the liberal MSM.

27 posted on 03/19/2007 9:52:57 AM PDT by BluH2o
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To: tcrlaf
If it was bought by The New York Times, you can be sure it will disappear down Orwell's "Memory Hole", lost forever...

Not necessarily. Though expect the names of some NYT staffers and managers to disappear from it.


28 posted on 03/19/2007 9:53:28 AM PDT by archy (Et Thybrim multo spumantem sanguine cerno. [from Virgil's *Aeneid*.])
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To: Larry Lucido

LOL!....ewwwwww.


29 posted on 03/19/2007 9:56:09 AM PDT by Suzy Quzy
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To: tcrlaf

Let the extortion continue.


30 posted on 03/19/2007 9:56:41 AM PDT by Fester Chugabrew
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To: Wild Irish Rogue
"Perhaps some of the MSM are on the list."

Time to start a speculation poll. Brokaw? Rather? We can build a list and develop a "mostly likely top candidate".

31 posted on 03/19/2007 9:56:54 AM PDT by Hatteras
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To: Hatteras

Well, it won't be Barney Frank -- he uses the personal columns.


32 posted on 03/19/2007 9:59:45 AM PDT by Beckwith (The dhimmicrats and liberal media have chosen sides and they've sided with the Jihadists.)
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To: BluH2o; Wild Irish Rogue
No doubt.

Even at minor comments by Republicans the media has gone into hysterical rants - such as Quayle's spelling of potato which was a total nonissue, nothing compared to some of the things the Clintons have uttered.

33 posted on 03/19/2007 10:01:31 AM PDT by Dante3
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To: Hatteras

"Time to start a speculation poll."

We ALREADY KNOW that Clinton Operatives are on the list, and rumor is that she specialized in Lesbians...

Remember, you can go back as far as 1993!


34 posted on 03/19/2007 10:03:00 AM PDT by tcrlaf (VOTE DEM! You'll Look GREAT In A Burqa!)
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To: tcrlaf

**The "Lack of Media Interest" itself tells me that there are lots of DEMOCRATS scared to death right now...**

Yes, my thoughts exactly. But there will be GOP on it too, I'm sure.


35 posted on 03/19/2007 10:04:52 AM PDT by Salvation (†With God all things are possible.†)
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To: archy
"We've had at least a dozen offers for exclusivity to the list," said the lawyer, Montgomery Blair Sibley. Bidders include media outlets that regularly practice "checkbook journalism," he said, and others that are considered "the gold standard" of the profession."

"Cash offers," said Sibley, naming no names or prices.

There's one thing for certain. The MSM already knows who is on that list.

36 posted on 03/19/2007 10:05:24 AM PDT by Hatteras
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To: bmwcyle

Probably the whole Kennedy Clan. Oh the deliciousness of it all; especially in this extended electioneering period. I agree with the other poster; “let the chips fall where they may”. Good to get it out now and allow for a thinning of the field and substitute runners join the marathon.


37 posted on 03/19/2007 10:08:43 AM PDT by noname07718
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To: tcrlaf
Just ask Ron Brown

Oh come on now. You know the .45 inch hole in Rons skull, and the metal spray shown on his X-ray, were caused by the crash not a pre-frag round such as a Glaser or MagSafe fired at close range.

38 posted on 03/19/2007 10:09:01 AM PDT by ASA Vet (http://www.rinorepublic.com)
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To: Larry Lucido

All the MSM and Dems have to do is have someone speculate that Pres. Bush may be on that list and within 2 days, it'll be the gospel truth even though it's not.


39 posted on 03/19/2007 10:09:01 AM PDT by KingRonnie9
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To: tcrlaf

She should have the list sent to Drudge. He'd publish it, no matter who was on it.

Before she does, she should let it be known that fingers are on the button somewhere to press the "send" key if she doesn't walk out of that prosecutor's office with a "no prosecution" agreement.

She has the government by the short hairs, and she should publicly blackmail them, just like they blackmail everybody with threats in order to get what they want. And then, when they refuse to play ball, that send key should be hit out there: to Drudge, to Rush, to Rolling Stone, to Taranto at the Wall Street Journal, to the NY Times, to the National Enquirer, to the British tabloids, to the Toronto papers: all around the world.

Let me go, or I will bring the house down on top of you.
You won't let me go?
Fine. Then die, politically, all of you.
She should take them down.


40 posted on 03/19/2007 10:10:17 AM PDT by Vicomte13 (Le chien aboie; la caravane passe.)
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