WHILE WE WERE BEING BOMBARDED WITH SOUNDBITES FROM JEREMIAH WRIGHT AND EMERSING OURSELVES WITH THE HILLARY/BARACK DEBACLE THE MASS MEDIA HAPPENED TO OVERLOOK THE MURDER/SUICIDE/HANGING OF THE D.C. MADAM WHO WAS PREVIOUSLY CONVICTED IN FEDERAL COURT FOR NUMEROUS CHARGES..ITS BEEN SAID THE MADAM HAD 10,000 CLIENTS ON HER ROLODEX AND WAS WILLING TO EXPOSE HIGH LEVEL TOP RANKING DC OFFICIALS WHO WERE HER TRUSTED CLIENTS, ON THE HEEL OF SPITZERGATE YOU WOULD ASSUME HER CLIENTS WOULD BE SHAKING IN THEIR BOOTS AND BE WILLING TO DO ANYTHING TO SILENCE HER..LET THE CONSPIRACIES BEGIN
" ... the media and the political elite all seemed extraordinarily determined to put a cap on how much information the case revealed ... "
Also see: "DC Madam Dead: Military Women Worked for Palfrey/Political Impact Upon Louisiana's David Vitter?"
New York Times: " ... The 'isn’t it a pity' theme frequently contrasts the heavy price paid by Ms. Palfrey and the women who worked for her — the life-wrecking, highly publicized prosecution that led to Ms. Palfrey’s conviction last month on racketeering and money-laundering charges (though notably, not for anything directly to do with paid sex) — with the light-to-nonexistent consequences suffered by most of the “johns” who patronized her escort service. Maddy Sauer of ABC News addressed the disparity today in a blog post, as did Monica Hesse in The Washington Post; reporting by her colleague Dana Millbank highlighted it during the trial last month. ... Back to the dead-women-tell-no-tales story line: It seems to be widely taken for granted that Ms. Palfrey had more, bigger, juicier names to name than the handful of prominent customers who have surfaced — Senator David Vitter, Republican of Louisiana, who has clung to office; Randall L. Tobias, who had to resign his senior State Department post but who soft-landed as head of the Indianapolis Airport Authority; and Harlan Ullman, a top military strategist who advised the Bush Administration. ... " - "Skepticism and Sadness After Death of ‘D.C. Madam’," May 2, 2008
http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/05/02/skepticism-and-sadness-after-death-of-dc-madam/?hp
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" ... You add up the little pieces and it is clear that something much bigger than prostitution was involved. ... "
Scoop.co.nz reports the Palfry's was:
A CONVENIENT DEATH
FEW DEATHS could cause as much relief in Washington as did the alleged suicide of DC Madam Deborah Jean Palfrey. One need only consider the rapid demise of Governor Eliot Spitzer after it was discovered he had used a similar escort service to realize that Palfrey was not welcomed by many of the capital's powerful men as a living repository of their sexual habits.
We are not speaking of a small number. Palfrey estimated her business involved some 10,000 clients - most in and around the most powerful city in America.
This is not to say that Palfrey did not commit suicide, only that her name may be reasonably added to those whose cause of death can not be - and may never be - firmly determined. ...
What we do know about Palfrey is that her operation had some 10,000 male clients, and not one has been subject to legal prosecution. Two of the women involved, Jean Palfrey and Brandy Britton, both allegedly committed suicide and both by hanging. Palfrey indicated she didn't know whether Britton killed herself, saying, "There are many, many family members who say this was not the case." When radio host Alex Jones said to Palfrey in 2007, "And you're not planning to commit suicide," Palfrey responded, "And I'm not planning to commit suicide."
There is no apparent logic for the massive legal assault on Palfrey. In fact, prostitution isn't even a federal crime; she was charged under federal racketeering law. When her house was raided a year and a half ago, the swat squad went through everything but curiously ignored 46 boxes of information about her clients. Interestingly also, the attack began in earnest immediately after Palfrey had put her house on the market, closed her business, and transferred some money to Germany where she planned to retire. In fact, she was in Germany when US postal inspectors, pretending to be home buyers, illegally sought entrance into her house from a realtor without a warrant.
You add up the little pieces and it is clear that something much bigger than prostitution was involved. Was Palfrey being threatened because she had, in effect, decided to leave the mob taking along her many tales? Was she a bit player in some much larger blackmail operation? And did she end her life or did someone do it for her?
Our approach to such matters is to treat them as open cases. We do not presume a conspiracy, but neither do we accept the establishment's approach of rushing to the conclusion most comfortable to itself. In this case, for example, there are some 10,000 members of the establishment with a vested interest in not examining the evidence too much.
We do know that the Palfrey case was one of the strangest prosecutions the capital has ever seen. Judges, prosecutors, the media and the political elite all seemed extraordinarily determined to put a cap on how much information the case revealed. So far, they have been quite successful.
AP The body of Deborah Jeane Palfrey was found in a shed near her mother's home about 20 miles northwest of Tampa. Police said the 52-year-old Palfrey left at least two suicide notes and other writings to her family in a notebook, but they did not disclose their contents. Palfrey apparently hanged herself with nylon rope from the shed's ceiling. Her mother discovered the body. . . Blanche Palfrey had no sign that her daughter was suicidal, and there was no immediate indication that alcohol or drugs were involved, police Capt. Jeffrey Young said. . .
"I am sure as heck am not going to be going to federal prison for one day, let alone, you know, four to eight years here, because I'm shy about bringing in the deputy secretary of whatever," Palfrey told ABC last year when she released phone records that revealed some of her clients. "Not for a second. I'll bring every last one of them in if necessary."
Dan Moldea, a Washington writer who befriended Palfrey while considering writing a book about her, said she was cautiously optimistic about her trial, even when the case went before the jury. After the conviction, Moldea sent her an e-mail but didn't hear back. A week later, he said, he sent another note entitled "A Concerned Friend" asking whether she was OK. Again, he didn't hear back. After hearing of her death, he recalled a conversation over dinner last year when the subject of prison came up. "She said, 'I am not going back to prison. I will commit suicide first,'" Moldea said.
TIME Palfrey contacted Moldea last year to provide her help writing a book. "She had done time once before [for prostitution]," Moldea recalls. "And it damn near killed her. She said there was enormous stress - it made her sick, she couldn't take it, and she wasn't going to let that happen to her again." . . .
When a former employee of Palfrey's, Brandy Britton, hanged herself before going to trial, Palfrey told the press, "I guess I'm made of something that Brandy Britton wasn't made of."
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