Looking for Johns in All the Right Phone Records

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Looking for Johns in All the Right Phone Records

Like others, I've been perusing the phone bills of the DC Madam. So far, I've found no other Republican senators--and nobody of note. I have, though, unearthed an intriguing phone number. More on that in a moment.

The telephone records of Deborah Jeane Palfrey list thousands of numbers and cover eleven years. I've looked at particular stretches, plugging the numbers into various reverse-number search services. Most of these searches produced no names. Many of the numbers are unlisted. Many are cell phone numbers, and the names of the owners are not available. Many numbers track back to hotel switchboards. (Most escort firms, I assume, do much, if not most, of their business with out-of-towners in hotel rooms who find the escort services the old-fashioned way. The Washington, DC, yellow pages contains nine pages of listings for escort firms.) I was lucky if I got one name for every ten to twenty numbers I looked up.

None of these names belonged to anyone of prominence. There was a former Army colonel working for a military contractor, a local dentist, a realtor, a medical firm executive, and a concierge at a fancy Washington hotel. I also found the home number for a female congressional aide who worked for the Republicans on a House subcommittee. (Perhaps she was working for the DC Madam on the side.) The most intriguing number I came across was this:

202-224-9655

There was a brief call between someone at this number and Palfrey the day after Christmas in 1998. What's interesting is that 224 is the prefix for Senate phone numbers. The obvious question, then, is, who in a Senate office was talking to the DC Madam? Could it have been a senator? Senator David Vitter, a Louisiana Republican who has acknowledged calling her service, was not elected to the Senate until 2004. Or was it a Senate aide looking to take advantage of her services? Or was it a Senate employee working for the escort service? Or did someone dial a wrong number?

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http://www.davidcorn.com/archives/2007/07/looking_for_joh.php

[WCGreen]

1. Call it and see...

[Bitwit1234]

2. For some reason my phone numbers disappeared

I had them downloaded to a file and yesterday I got some phone numbers. Today I went to the rest and guess what the left side of the page was perfect, but the right side with the numbers was gone. I downloaded them from Paltrey's site.