I've been following this story for months now.
You knew I would found a scandal that involves sex, money and Republicans!
Well spank me Matilda! Republican's and sex? I didn't know they knew how!
I'm snarking at the Scandal Desk here with this dandy diddy.
You might remember DC Madam Deborah Jeane Palfrey. She was indicted in September 2006 for running a DC prostitution ring and money laundering, etc. All here assets were seized by the IRS.
The indictment is the link below and the specific violations are stated at the top of Page 2 of the indictment.
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/...
The real fun part was Palfrey's threat to disclose the names of some 10,000 plus (pant, pant) customers of her "escort" service. Now that headline had political animals all over DC scared into constipation.
In fact, must have been some really big names calling the DOJ for them to ask for a gag order on Palfrey from disclosing the names of her clients.
The story is again from The Smoking Gun:
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/...
In the DOJ motion document of March 7, 2007:
"Government lawyers claim that some discovery documents contain "personal information" about Palfrey's former johns and prostitutes that is "sensitive." The prosecution filing does not detail the nature of this confidential information."
So far 3 former customers of Palfrey's Pamela Martin & Associates have been named. But Palfrey has turned over the entire list to ABC News and Brian Williams. 20/20 will do a segment on Palfrey on Friday, May 4, 2007.
Here's the juicy part. So far to be named are:
- Dick Morris - Former campaign guru for Bill Clinton and now Clinton family hater, Fox Newsie and anti-Hillary Clinton book author.
- Harlan K. Ullman. "Harlan K. Ullman is the father of "shock and awe." Or one of its parents, anyway. In 1996, he and six other guys wrote a paper for the National Defense Institute called Shock and Awe - Achieving Rapid Dominance."
Reference here: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...
- As of Friday April 27, Randall Tobias resigned. "Deputy Secretary of State Randall Tobias submitted his resignation Friday after confirming to ABC News that he had been a customer of a Washington escort service (Palfrey's), multiple media outlets reported Friday." Tobias is a 65 year old married and was "Loved by President Bush and Secretary of State Rice." But Tobias was not popular with Congress especially for his Abstinence Only as a means of controlling AIDS/HIV. "Tobias was also director of U.S. Foreign Assistance and administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)." Reference: http://rawstory.com/...
Here’s my take on this mess. Another fine Republican mess it is. I believe ABC with the help of DOJ prevailed on Palfrey to give ABC the list as a pre-emptive strike to keep the name of Palfrey’s bigwig johns out of the New York Times, LA Times or some other newspaper. None of us will ever see that list! And that’s to bad because that list is very, very incriminating of many Washington, DC bigwigs!
That list can be matched to names of Republicans (and Democrats) getting sex for political favors and is ample probable cause for the FBI to investigate further.