Pamela Martin and Associates
Well this might be the next big thing in the tabloid news. It seems a woman under indictment and with her property siezed is not a happy woman. :(
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D.C. Madame to Sell 10,000 Phone Records of High-End Washington Clients
Posted on 03/01/2007 1:44:10 PM PST by RDTF
Politico.com via Drudge Report ^ | March 01, 2007 | Anne Schroeder
Deborah J. Palfrey is unhappy. And, if you know who Deborah J. Palfrey is—and especially if you know her by Jeane—you probably don’t want her unhappy. From 1993 until this past summer, Palfrey ran Pamela Martin and Associates, a “high-end adult fantasy firm which offered legal sexual and erotic services across the spectrum of adult sexual behavior,” according to a statement she put out today hoping to raise funds for her legal defense.
The way she plans to raise those funds could reverberate through Washington’s power corridors. She is considering “selling the entire 46 pounds of detailed and itemized phone records for the 13 year period,” reports The Politico's Ryan Grim. In October, the Internal Revenue Service seized her assets; the sale of the records would fund her fight against the seizure.
Palfrey released what she said were a sample of the records, which don’t include names, but do feature a number of Washington area exchanges.
Her attorney, Montgomery Blair Sibley, said that prices have yet to be set for the data. “We don’t actually know that yet,” he said, “because we haven’t finished mining the data to identify the individuals. Obviously if Bill Clinton’s on the list that’s a different matter than you know, somebody nobody’s ever heard of before.”
But, he said, chances are good that some interesting names will pop up. “Statistically, if you have 10,000 people, and given the structure of this particular service, these weren’t people beckoning from car windows,” he said. “The escorts only responded to four and five star hotels or private residences. And so the landlines will show up on the private residences real quickly.”
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How are they going to pay now?
[QUOTE=Haywoo Jablome]Friday, March 02, 2007
A woman accused of running an upscale prostitution service in the Washington area might sell her list of 10,000 clients to pay for her defense, her attorney said Friday.
Authorities have seized about $1 million worth of real estate and $500,000 in cash and stocks from Deborah Jean Palfrey, 50, said her attorney, Montgomery Blair Sibley.
"She's found herself backed into a corner," Sibley said Friday. "There's only essentially one asset she could liquidate."
Sibley also said he would subpoena dozens of Palfrey's clients and escorts to testify if the case goes to trial.
Palfrey, of Vallejo, Calif., was indicted on federal racketeering charges this week in federal court in Washington.
Prosecutors say the call-girl service hired college-educated women to cater to men in hotels and homes in Washington and its Maryland and Virginia suburbs.
In 13 years, the service employed 132 women, all at least 22 years old and who had other jobs, and generated about $2 million in income, prosecutors allege.
Sibley has described his client's business as a legal escort service that operated almost exclusively with cash. He said the women who worked for Palfrey were given tax statements each year, listing their earnings as independent contractors, and that Palfrey accurately reported her income on federal tax returns.
A spokesman for the U.S. attorney's office had no comment on the client list or the possibility that Palfrey will make it public. :eek::eek:
Start Kissing your ass's goodbye if this shit is true. Jean's squealing ass is gonna get smoked I'd bet ;)[/QUOTE]
Don't these prosecutors know how much it costs to go to college these days? $25k, $35k, $50k per year?!
You just can't pay that with an $8/hour job. Between classes and studying, they really only have enough time to work about 30 hours/week. That's only $250/week or just slightly more than $12k/year before taxes.
However, let's see if they work for this agency and make $150/hour and see 15 clients per week (15 hours working and still have enough free time to travel to the sites and have other extracurricular fun), they'd make $2,250/week or $117k/year. Now, that will pay for alot of classes.
Busting this lady will surely put a dent into the college education of these ladies. Then what happens? They cannot get a sufficient career going and may end up on welfare. Ok, this last part was really reaching.
Although I can understand that the streetwalkers may pose a problem in their addictions, etc. But, what problems do these "higher end" ladies cause?
They have a product or service we need; and, we will pay dearly for such. I, for one, have the money to pay for such services if required and do not resort to illegal or illicit means to gain the funds.
Who loses? The college girls!
Van
P.S. - This entire epithet was written on the premise that I have any idea of what I am speaking. Of course, I don't. So, don't take it seriously at all!