ALLEGED D.C. SEX SCANDAL MADAM: 'I ABHOR INJUSTICE' (Washington Post P. A01)

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By Sue Anne Pressley Montes
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, April 29, 2007; Page A01

"Miz Julia" doled out a steady stream of advice, both practical and philosophical.

From her California home, she e-mailed tips to the 132 women who worked across the Washington area for the firm Pamela Martin & Associates. Her newsletters, now excerpted in court records, were a virtual how-to manual for avoiding all kinds of trouble in a business said to specialize in erotic fantasies.

"One never quite knows where evil, i.e., the vice squad is lurking in this business," read one arch entry from 1995. "The misogynists get a real kick out of surprising (shocking) you girls, when you give them the opportunity!!! . . . Therefore, you are to lock, double lock, triple lock all doors!!! . . . Figure it out, before they 'get cha'!!!"

Miz Julia was the pseudonym for Deborah Jeane Palfrey, the woman at the center of a sex scandal that has caused a deputy secretary of state to resign and has lawyers calling around town trying to keep their clients' names out of public view. A one-time law student, Palfrey ran for 13 years what she insists was a legal escort service. Federal prosecutors allege she was providing $300-an-hour prostitutes, and a grand jury indicted her in February on federal racketeering charges.

Palfrey piqued fascination -- and anxiety -- by first threatening to sell phone records that could unveil thousands of clients, and then handing them over, apparently for free, to ABC News. She is scheduled to appear tomorrow in U.S. District Court in the District.

On Friday, Randall L. Tobias resigned as deputy secretary of state one day after confirming to Brian Ross of ABC that he had patronized the Pamela Martin firm. Speaking yesterday on "Good Morning America," Ross said Tobias told him Tobias's number was on Palfrey's phone records because he had called "to have gals come over to the condo to give me a massage." There had been "no sex," Ross quoted Tobias as saying, and that recently he has used another service, "with Central American gals," for massages.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/28/AR2007042801192.html

[Erika]

1. Condi shops for shoes, and her undersecretary shops for escorts

No wonder this country is so messed up. We've been overtaken by elitists who think these actions are OK.

[babylonsister]

2. What's worrisome to me is that this could trump any 'real' news, as so

often happens. I'd be as happy as anyone else if some highly visible people get 'outed' but it's not a sin to use an escort service. This story also makes me wonder about Tobias; what is he hiding that he doesn't want us to know? We now KNOW he used the service, so what's he really hiding?

[hedgehog]

3. Hey , what goes around comes around; this is the same crowd that

impoeached Clinton over a BJ!

[StarryNite]

14. Exactly

In fact it seems to be the only impeachable offense these days. Whatever it takes to get rid of them. Hypocrites, they are.

[Erika]

4. A 65 year old married GOP biggie uses an escort service

is cute. But I don't think the fundies would show the same tolerance.

[johnfunk]

6. You forget: IOKIYAR. In fact, IOKIYAFBTR

It's OK if you're a fundie bible-thumping Republicrite.

[alfredo]

8. Remember, the public didn't really start paying attention to

Ken Starr's witch hunt until sex was thrown into the mix.

Sex is something the public can understand.

[malaise]

18. BIngo

WHen in doubt remember FOley and Rev Ted.

[alfredo]

19. And at least two dozen more Republican sex offenders. There

is a site or two that lists the sex offenders in the party of family values.

[Skidmore]

17. This is news.

And if the escort services were used by lobbyists perhaps to buy favor from political leaders, it needs to be exposed. I don't think it is a simple matter of some creepy congresscritter searching for love in all the wrong places. Not when Abramoff is lurking out there on the fringes of this, if I correctly understood a thread on DU the other day. Corruption is newsworthy.

[johnfunk]

5. As RawStory.com said so succinctly, Miz Pamela is unloading "Shock and Awe" on DC

One of her "firm's" other clients, it seems, was behind the phrase "shock and awe." Oh, my...

[babylonsister]

7. Ah, but will ABC pick and choose who they expose?

:think: Owned by which conglomerate-Disney? I can 'hear' the deals being made now.

[Tarheel_Dem]

9. Precisely....coming from the network that aired "Path-2-911"

However, I credit ABC with blowing the lid off the Foley Page Scandal. I,personally, haven't watched anything on ABC since they aired "Path 2 911". But I agree with you, it'll be interesting to see if this is a "bi"-partisan scandal.

[babylonsister]

11. Lots of interests in ABC; did they find their soul, or morals? That would be

nice; but I will forever try to be aware.

[Beam Me Up]

13. fixed your link

Somehow yours is missing the "r" right at the beginning.

http://rawstory.com/news/afp/Prostitution_scandal_has_Washington_04282007.html

[Connie_Corleone]

10. D.C. Madame will be on 20/20 on ABC May 4th.

[bleever]

12. The Gals of Central America

are famous for their mastery of therapeutic massage, right?

Ross said Tobias told him Tobias's number was on Palfrey's phone records because he had called "to have gals come over to the condo to give me a massage." There had been "no sex," Ross quoted Tobias as saying, and that recently he has used another service, "with Central American gals," for massages.

To quote Brian Ross quoting Mark Foley's IMs: "Cool."

[Joanne98]

15. She's scheduled to appear TOMMORROW!

:popcorn:

[wordpix]

16. not that we want titillation to take over "real" news but we could use a little escapist humor

right now as we wrestle with Iraq, changing over to a renewable resource economy and impeachment of Dickhead first.

:rofl:

[Monk06]

20. Well Condi's safe. She owns a Sybian.