D.C. Madam Found Dead: “Apparent Suicide”
May 1st, 2008Update: DC Madam Predicted She Would Be Suicided
Via: WTOP:
D.C. Madam Deborah Jeane Palfrey has been found dead in a home in Florida, police say.
Police in Tarpon Springs, Fla. were called to the home of Palfrey’s mother, Blanche, to investigate an apparent suicide at 10:52 a.m.
Police confirmed the dead woman as 52-year-old Deborah Jeane Palfrey.
Palfrey’s body was found in a small storage shed near her mother’s mobile home, police say.
There was a handwritten suicide note, but police did not disclose its contents.
Palfrey was convicted on April 15 of racketeering and money laundering charges for running a prostitution ring.
Throughout her trial in U.S. District Court, Palfrey maintained her company, Pamela Martin & Associates, provided legal escort services and catered to adult fantasies from 1993 until 2006.
Palfrey was scheduled to be sentenced on July 24. She faced a maximum of 55 years in prison.
Deborah Jeane Palfrey joins Adamo Bove and Costas Tsalikidis.
Adamo Bove was the head of security at Telecom Italia and exposed the CIA, SISMI (the Italian CIA) and his own bosses.
He was found under a freeway overpass.
Costas Tsalikidis was a 38-year-old software engineer for Vodaphone in Greece.
He uncovered a highly sophisticated bug embedded in the mobile network. Spyware eavesdropped on the Greek prime minister and other top officials’ cell phone calls; it even monitored the car phone of Greece’s secret service chief.
His mother found him hanging outside of his apartment bathroom.
Saw this yesterday flickering across CNN on the Big Screens. First thought: uh hunh, yup, I’m sure it’s suicide.
@Kevin: “Florida” category, hahaha.
Did some googling, turned up a Washington Post article from this last Sunday:
Palfrey’s flamboyant attorney, Montgomery Blair Sibley, said Friday that he has been contacted by five lawyers recently, asking whether their clients’ names are on Palfrey’s list of 10,000 to 15,000 phone numbers. Some, Sibley said, have inquired about whether accommodations could be made to keep their identities private. ABC is expected to air a report on Palfrey and her clients on “20/20” on May 4, during sweeps.
More revelations are in the offing. Ross said the list includes the names of some “very prominent people,” as well as a number of women with “important and serious jobs” who had worked as escorts for the firm.
The disclosures have been made sparely and artfully. Two weeks ago, in court documents about calling former clients to testify on her behalf, Palfrey named Harlan K. Ullman, an academic whose main claim to fame was a scholarly paper he wrote more than a decade ago on the military strategy known as “shock and awe.” Responded Ullman: “It doesn’t deserve the dignity of a response.”
Sibley also filed notice that he intends to depose political consultant Dick Morris in a separate civil proceeding. Morris would not comment.
Palfrey also declined to comment on either Tobias’s resignation or other names that could arise.
“As the old saying goes, ‘I need to dance with the guy who brung me,’ ” she wrote in an e-mail to a Washington Post reporter. “I have promised ABC News that the ’20/20′ interview will be an exclusive one. I am sure you can understand my situation.”
And let us not forget the very recent case of Riad Hamad,
http://winterpatriot.blogspot.com/2008/04/what-politically-motivated-suicide-in.html