http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article1728762.eceMay 1, 2007
‘Madam’ threatens to name and shame
An alleged madam accused of running a prostitution ring for the power elite of Washington vowed yesterday to reveal dozens of high-profile names in what is shaping up to be the biggest sex scandal in the US capital for more than a decade.
Deborah Jeane Palfrey, who handed the telephone numbers of up to 15,000 clients to a US television network last week, said that she would identify as many well-known figures as possible to subpoena them as defence witnesses.
Ms Palfrey’s list of telephone numbers, that weighs in at 46lb (21kg) and has landed like a bombshell in political Washington, has already cost one deputy to Condoleezza Rice, the Secretary of State, his job and thrust another official — the Pentagon adviser who coined the term “shock and awe” — to the heart of the scandal.
Another prominent figure named in court documents filed by Ms Palfrey is Dick Morris, a senior White House adviser to Bill Clinton who, in 1996, resigned over reports that he was seeing a prostitute. snip
Earlier Ms Palfrey had said in an interview: “I can state with unequivocal certainty this situation will be a very long and unpleasant one.” She added: “I’m sure as heck not going to federal prison . . . because I’m shy about bringing in the deputy secretary of whatever.”