Along with the criminal case against Jeane, the government has also filed a civil forfeiture action seeking to take all her assets. Curiously, in the criminal action -- in which Jeane could go to jail -- she is not allowed to gather information before trial by examinations of witnesses under oath. However, in the civil forfeiture action, such discovery before trial is allowed. Go figure.As we mentioned in previous posts, Ross had privately told Palfrey that the DC Madam case would receive Watergate-level coverage. Alas, his televised report ended not with a bang (pardon the expression), but with the whimpered complaint that none of her listed customers were "newsworthy."
Judge Kessler stopped the civil forfeiture action last March for six months to prevent Jeane from getting information to help her defense in the civil and criminal cases. That stay order expired last week and I promptly issued subpoenas for the depositions of (i) Troy Burrus, the IRS case agent on Jeane's case, for Friday, September 28th in Washington, D.C., and (ii) Brian Ross of ABC News, (ii) Cindy Adams of the New York Post and (iv) Bill Bastone of the Smokingun.com for Friday October 5th in New York City. Those subpoenas were served yesterday on the witnesses.
I expect both the government and the subpoenaed witnesses to aggressively fight Jeane's attempt to get the basic information regarding why this matter was commenced by the government and how the government has acted since the seizing of all Jeane's assets one year ago. Heaven forbid the truth comes out.
We now know that Ross worked closely with French pseudo-journalist Alexis Debat, who -- as I have elsewhere shown -- seems very close to the CIA. This blog has provisionally entertained the theory that some of Palfrey's "girls" were being used to entrap the powerful.
Question 1: Why is the government treating Palfrey as though she were a mass murderer? Other DC escort services are allowed to operate in peace. Something beyond mere prostitution must be in back of this tale.
Question 2: What do you think Sibley expects to see as a result of that subpoena on Brian Ross?
1 comment:
Palfrey list Sounds like the black book of 1918
That trial of the century was removed clean out of all books.
The list there had 47000 names.
The list here is 46000 phone records.
The listed are not womenizers or machos or ordinary sinners.
They are power brokers, gay, Lutheran Shock and Awe agitators of all wars.
And they are only the cover for the real pimps somewhere underground.
Palfrey deserves the First Billing award for clean governance.
Noel Pemberton-Billing
Trial of the Century
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