Erle Stanley Gardner would enjoy this plot. A madam, excuse me, an escort service operator, is accused of racketeering and money laundering. She has a list of her customers that she wants to sell. She claims to have given a copy of her list to an unnamed news organization, to help her case (according to her attorney).
Meanwhile the prosecution accuses the escort service operator to really be a madam, and they accuse her and her attorney of intimidating witnesses by suing former employees and customers. They’ve asked the judge to prevent her from instigating any of these lawsuits. On Monday the judge delayed until Thursday the hearing on whether Deborah Palfrey, the accused, can sell her list.
So is Palfrey a madam who ran a high-class prostitution business serving wheelers and dealers in the District of Columbia, or just an innocent businesswoman who operated, as she told the Washington Times, “[a] legal, high-end erotic-fantasy service [with clients] from the more refined walks of life” in Washington?
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