Just breaking via AP…
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The body of the 52-year-old woman was found in a shed near her mother’s mobile home Thursday morning in Tarpon Springs, about 20 miles northwest of Tampa.
Palfrey, known as the “D.C. Madam,” was convicted April 15 by a federal jury of running a prostitution service that catered to members of Washington’s political elite, including Sen. David Vitter, R-La.
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Palfrey faced a maximum of 55 years in prison and was free pending her sentencing July 24.
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One of the escort service employees was former University of Maryland, Baltimore County, professor Brandy Britton, who was arrested on prostitution charges in 2006. She committed suicide in January before she was scheduled to go to trial.
Last year, Palfrey said she, too, was humiliated by her prostitution charges, but said: “I guess I’m made of something that Brandy Britton wasn’t made of.”
Palfrey had, at times, cooperated with The BRAD BLOG, serving as a reliable source for various reports as her story unfolded. We send our condolences to both her family and friends.
UPDATE: Monica Hess at WaPo notes Palfrey’s death by hanging, and asks “Why do we feel so sad?”:
David Vitter is still that good-looking junior senator from Louisiana. Harlan K. Ullman (creator of “shock and awe”) is listed as a senior associate on the Web site of the Center for Strategic and International Studies. Former State Department official Randall L. Tobias, who previously oversaw AIDS relief, promoting abstinence and a policy requiring grant recipients to swear they opposed prostitution, slunk back to Indiana after his resignation. There, he was appointed president of the board of the Indianapolis Airport Authority. The city’s mayor said that America “believed in second chances.”
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She would have been thinking that she provided a legitimate service — that college-educated women answered her City Paper ads of their own free will, and that men contacted her of theirs. She would have been thinking that if this was a crime at all, it was surely a victimless one between consenting adults. (Do we feel sad because, deep down, we think that she’s right?)
2 shots to the back of the head is usually a good method of suicide.
I couldn’t help think, at first blush, that she had probably pissed off a heavyweight.
Listening to the information the news was distributing adds to my suspicions.
It does not yet pass the Lemme smell test.
edit the last line to read “both her”
You didn’t mean to “bother her family and friends” did ya?
Tarpon hmm…my neck of the woods
I bet there were WMDs in that shed where she committed “suicide”. And I’m the King of Switzerland. Of course, since they said it was suicide they won’t check for nitrates on her hand or DNA under her fingernails or fingerprints on the gun.
Sounds like a Vince Foster suicide to me. Both ladies?????????????????????
Bay News 9 report
Mom and her were talking this morning.
Mom told Deb she was going to take a short nap.
Mom woke up, couldn’t find her.
Mom went outside, noticed her three wheeled bike was moved from the shed.
Opened shed door, found Deb hanging from a nylon rope.
Mom said not suicidal.
Police found note in shed, and some other notes in a book?
Don’t let this story be a coverup of the busted GOP hacker, who is chair of the SD GOP, a treasurer in CA GOP, and who is in position to throw the 2008 election with his NUCLEAR POWERED GANG.
Ahh, Deborah Jean was what uhhh, we in da business would refer to as a rat. My condolences to da family, but when you work in dis business, you don’t dime out nobody.
whatreallyhappened is saying the madam was under a gag order since March. She was saying she would talk. And that she said on Alex Jones’ radio show if she ever died it would not be suicide but murder…not the type.
Remember Brandy Britton? She was one of Palfrey’s escorts who was found hanged after being outed.
Similar MO’s indicate that they were probably “suicided” by the same people.
This stinks to high heaven. How can the msm just gloss over this without mentioning any type possibility or suspicion of foul play when it’s obvious that she was going to name names and powerful people wanted to shut her up? Instead it’s suicide, nothing to see here, Sen. Vitter was a bad boy, move along…
No doubt in my mind that this is yet another of a very Loooong line of murders perpetrated by some faction of the Bush Crime Family.
She knew she was going to be murdered, maybe she left a DVD that Blackwater didn’t recover that will surface at some point.
What a justice system you guys have! You want to police the world and you let the bad guys run amok at home… sick state of affairs.
Raymond Lemme RIP
Mick #14
“you” is just another word for presnit blush and his Department of
JusticeJust Us …We bloggers around our planet are not bound by the psychotic, murderous, inhumane, etc. fuckups of officialdom.
Tell your people that our people love you and hope and pray for and will work for your happiness … we are anxiously awaiting and advocating for the demise of the current fascist regime here in “America” (officially “Amurka”) …
peace out my dear fellow … our hopes and prayers are to befriend you for real once again …
Video: Was the D.C. Madam murdered?
http://video.google.com/videopl...8AQ&hl=en
Was the D.C. Madam murdered?
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http://rawstory.com/news/2008/D...rida_0501.html
discuss/comments
http://www.haloscan.com/comment...wstory/10293a/
blogs are ablaze about it!
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Headlines”¦
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FOIA
Here’s another:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzvrgQ5hOM4
Quoth Palfrey in August 1991: “If taken into custody, my physical safety and most probably my very life would be jeopardized,” she wrote. “Rape, beating, maiming, disfigurement and more than likely murder disguised in the form of just another jailhouse accident or suicide would await me.”
How can anyone believe that this is a suicide. There are just too many “coincidences” that point to someone who may have taken the good madam out. First of all, I have read on another blog that there is actually a trifecta of events that resulted in the death of DJP. This blog has challenged the government version of events in the past (9/11, Iraq, etc), so I have every reason to beleive this blog. Ok, here is the deal. The mysterious lights over Arizona, the raid of the polyamist sect compound in Texas and the death of DJP are all connected. But much research is needed to connect the dots, so anyone who reads this post, please, please try to figure out how these are connected.
No fucking way this was a suicide. No fucking way.
Yet another exposure of the sick hypocrisy that the ruling elite on both sides of the aisle vomit onto us every single fucking day.
Remember that Congressmen, members of the Supreme Court, members of the Justice Dept, and others whose job it is to PROSECUTE people like Palfrey were her clients. Of course, I’m speculating as to whom her clientele might have been…but there’s a list somewhere. Here’s to hoping that someone finds it soon.
Dead women tell no tales.
The Palfrey “suicide” reminds me of an old book called “The Spike.” Read it if you can find it. Here is the information on it. See below after Wiki entry for my comments.
This is Wikipedia, so don’t get too excited, however it’s the first place after a lot of looking, including library sites, that I found a reference to the book. The irony of the left-wing tilt comment is that these authors worked for the right-wing Moonie paper the Washington Times. There was a lot of talk at the time that it was a roman a clef about several newspapers, particularly conservative ones since that is what Arnaud de Borchgrave primarily wrote for. It was a big deal in 1980, and I remember this because I reviewed it for a big-city paper who had an advanced hard copy hand delivered to me with a VERY short deadline. I read it fast, wrote a review, I guess they liked it because they printed it. I remember being creeped out by the story. (I was a young and idealistic.)
Maybe today’s story is ‘a Neo-con Republican plot for global supremacy by 2010’.
Cross reference this with Brad’s story on the San Diego Republican Party chairman Tony Krvaric. They knew!
I was one of many people who thought “Official Murder” when I heard about her death. It reminded me of William Casey being struck silent hours before his scheduled Congressional testimony about Iran-Contra in ’87.
Head over to my blog for more.
-Edly
American citizens must demand an independent investigation into the suspicious deaths of DEBORAH JEANE PALFREY and BRANDY BRITTON. It looks as if they were left high and dry by the FBI and the Justice Department. “Hookergate” is the kind of complex criminal conspiracy that the RICO statutes were meant to prosecute.(instead RICO is often used to prosecute ordinary Americans for low-level, penny-ante criminal activity.) Ongoing, organized criminal activities only exist because the government allows it to occur. Without collusion at all levels of law enforcement and government, organized criminal activities couldn’t function over the long-haul. This includes payoffs to cops and politicians and let me suggest Mr. Soprano, “working relationships” with these officials. We must demand that “Hookergate” be investigated with public, televised hearings much like Iran-Contra or the McCarthy hearings. It looks as if the FBI and Justice Department have become co-conspirators to the tragic deaths of DEBORAH JEANE PALFREY and BRANDY BRITTON. RIP.
I thought I remember her saying that her lawyer has all of the goodies to be released to the public upon her death…nevermind, they probably got to him too
Don’t know how much truth is behind this info or phone records but its sure worth being checked out before someone decides to delete it:
http://deborahjeanepalfrey.com/...neRecords.html
Any comments, questions or concerns can be addressed to :
Montgomery Sibley, Palfrey’s lawyer
mbsibleydjp@civilforfeiture.com
Dick strikes again. Dick Cheney that is.
I suggest it was Colonel Mustard in the Study with the rope.
After viewing the misses suicide note, I would say dont do the crime if you cant do the time.
That’s right the fcking mob is the government of lying treasonous murderous losers. She died of suicide after she was wacked alright. These political scumbags killers can take their apparent suicide story parroted in the US mass media and stick it up their arab boxcutter terrorist ass. The global 6.5 second collapse of WTT Building #7 where super thermate has been positively identified is Bush’s blowjob.
The US Government psychologically tortured Deborah Jeane Palfrey to the point of suicide, (in other words to the point of murder).
From an international human rights point of view she was totally innocent.
Why did the US Government do such a thing to her? So they could steal her assets and life savings and claim everything was done legally.
Deborah worked hard for her money, she was an intelligent, successful and hard working business woman.
In her 52 years of existence she never hurt one soul, she was a sweet and beautiful person.
Every single government official involved with her case (or torture) have her blood on their hands. The US government basically murdered her just so they could steal her money.
Only a very cruel government could do such a thing.
(Deborah – I as a fellow human being love and respect you with all my heart, I know you were innocent just like Jesus was innocent of all charges brought upon him before he was crucified – God bless your soul).
It wasn’t her money they wanted; it was the guarantee of her silence.