No, this is not about Mark Foley. It is, however, about sex, or rather,
sex workers.
The Smoking Gun has a new story about a DC prostitution ring that resulted in a recent raid:
OCTOBER 9--With the capital already mired in its latest sex scandal, federal agents last week raided the home of a woman they allege has, for the past 13 years, operated a Washington, D.C. escort service that dispatched college-educated prostitutes to the homes and hotel rooms of well-heeled clients. A two-year probe by Internal Revenue Service and Unites States Postal Inspection Service agents has targeted the Pamela Martin & Associates escort service and its owner, Deborah Jeane Palfrey. . .
Like all good Madams, Palfrey denied that she ran a prostitution ring. HOWEVER,
Palfrey did speculate that she may have come to the attention of federal agents because her operation had somehow intersected with a more high profile case, like that of convicted ex-congressman Randy "Duke" Cunningham. Investigators are reportedly examining charges that a defense contractor provided hookers to Cunningham as part of an influence-peddling scheme.
Alas, Benicia, California, where Palfrey lives and (allegedly) launders her money, is in Northern California, not San Diego. So the connection to Randy Cunningham is unclear. And there is no mention in the affidavit on the Smoking Gun site about a taxi service (which figured in the Cunningham saga). But there have been rumblings of further sex-related scandals about to drop for a while now. And isn't it interesting that this is happening now?