Deborah Jeane Palfrey, DC Madam, Found Guilty Of Running Prostitution Ring

The AP reports that Deborah Jeane Palfrey, the woman infamously known as the DC Madam, has been found guilty of running a prostitution service:

A federal jury has convicted a woman of running a high-end prostitution ring that catered to members of Washington's political elite.

The verdict against Deborah Jeane Palfrey was announced in a courtroom Tuesday afternoon.

Palfrey has repeatedly denied the escort service engaged in prostitution, and that any sex acts happened without her knowledge. Palfrey caused a sensation last year when she announced that she would sell her phone records to news outlets to pay for her defense.

Her most famous client was Republican Senator David Vitter, of Lousiana. Sen. Vitter was named as a witness in the case and could have been called to testify. He could have refused, but even that would have required a potentially very embarrassing trip to the courthouse.

Sen. Vitter was so reluctant to answer questions from the press about his relationship with Ms. Palfrey hat he crashed his car trying to evade reporters. Watch the video here.

Fortunately for Sen. Vitter, he was spared from having to testify.

Comments

[aceholiday]

08:57 AM on 04/16/2008

release the names.

[procrustes]

03:27 AM on 04/16/2008

Goodie, goodie, gumdrops! NOW, we'll be safe from...???

[pkafin]

11:53 PM on 04/15/2008

"Her most famous client was Republican Senator David Vitter, of Lousiana."

I doubt it. David Vitter was the most famous one that was linked to her. One can/should assume that among the thousand of other clients, there's a bigger fish out there somewhere.

[Harrier]

11:43 PM on 04/15/2008

So what, people are having sex. If they are both adults who cares if it's consensual.

[beright]

10:52 PM on 04/15/2008

Last night my European American mother scolded me about how "hard" it had been for her, her grandmother and great grandmother because of the way men had treated them. Well, I told her that while I felt the deepest empathy for them and for her, I told her that the anger she felt needed to be dealt with directly; that it wasn't Barack Obama's fault.

Of course she got pissed off with me, but the gist if what I was trying to tell her remains as steadfast Senator Obama's commenbt made weekend before last: People's anger is misplaced.

In the case of 'prostitution;' the anger, the guilt, the shame and the punishment are clearly mislplaced.

[txshldm0007]

10:17 PM on 04/15/2008

So where are the endidements for all the johns on this deal?

Oh I forgot their names where Spitzer !!!!

They are all HYPOCRITES

[Jtt]

10:05 PM on 04/15/2008

And Still I bet she was the most principled in Washington when it came to the conditions under which she sold herself .

Please don't waste prison space on her.

[shockmagog]

09:31 PM on 04/15/2008

The weed of crime bears Vitter fruit.

[keriheb]

06:19 PM on 04/15/2008

Who was she catering to the people in the inner city? I don't think so. Who can afford to pay the prices that Spritzer was paying? I don't think her clients were middle class people either. It was the big dogs on Capital Hill and their clientele. Yet they convict this woman, for what? Too much competition? Too many whores in Washington, D.C. driving down the prices?

Maybe the better thing to do would be to throw the male whores out of Washington, throw them all out and vote in someone new. At least it would give the town a new smell.

[aristippe]

05:31 PM on 04/15/2008

. . . and Vitter walks.

[larry278]

05:18 PM on 04/15/2008

While prostitution may be outlawed, it won't decrease the popularity of prostitution or prostitutes. To fine &/or jail a prostitute, those who promote prostitution by setting up a meeting with a prostitute, the johns who pay a fee for being entertained by a prostitute or prostitutes is to use the law to enforce judicial sexism. Prostitution may be unique in the fact that anti-prostitution law make society-as a whole- & all of those involved in prostitution into victims of the anti-prostitution laws. It's more than ironic that Ms Palfrey was found guilty & made a victim of the selective enforcment of anti-prostitution laws on April 15 when Americans are victimized by IRS incident to reporting one's income & paying income tax to IRS.
l lynch

[echo]

04:57 PM on 04/15/2008

Will Mary McDonnell be playing her in the Lifetime TV movie?

[MRb1000]

04:49 PM on 04/15/2008

AMERICA GET READY FOR THE SHOES TO DROP. SHE IS GOING TO TELL EVERYTHING IN A BOOK!!! SHE IS GOING TO GET PAID. CAN YOU SAY LARRY FLIN!!!!!!! I CAN SEE AND HEAR IT NOW. THIS WILL MAKE OUR COUNTRY LOOK VERY BAD!!!!!

[peachfuzz]

04:48 PM on 04/15/2008

The law punishes the wrong whores in this case.

[Felicty]

04:28 PM on 04/15/2008

So she gets punished and her Republican clients run free?

What bullshit.