15,000 Philandering Souls Squirming in Washington

Washington divorce lawyers are licking their chops and gearing up for battle. The “Beltway Madam” - Deborah J. Palfrey aka “Julia” - has sold the phone numbers of her clients to a reputable news organization. In another brilliant move, Ms. Palfrey has filed a countersuit for a breach of contract against an employee who claimed to have had actual intercourse with clients.

Palfrey is claiming that she offered legal “erotic game playing” via her subcontractors, who “agreed in writing to abide by the law, Palfrey said. If any of them engaged in sex acts for the money, she said, it wasn’t her fault.” As a result, “an attorney for Palfrey sued in U.S. District Court, seeking $75,000 in damages from a former employee she accused of illegal sexual activity,” reported CNN.

The woman named in the suit is a doctor from NIH. Incidentally,  Brandy Britton was a former professor at the University of Maryland who was busted for prostitution in January of 2006 in her Howard County, Maryland home. I regret to say was but Ms Britton hung herself last month in February of 2007, which is quite a shame because, according to authorities, probation would have been the extent of punishment for a first offense.

These two examples illustrate that prostitution is not limited to the dregs who reside in the “lower echelon” of society. But even the high end agencies are rife with scum pretending to have more than a modicum of class. A girl I went to college with used to work for “Julia,” which is a real hoot because unless you were that hard up, you’d tell her homely fat ass to get lost. We were close friends until, being the unscrupulous bitch she is, backstabbed me (and while I was sick in the hospital, of all places!), by swiping approximately five thousand dollars from my bedroom closet. 

On top of this dreg stealing my life savings, she framed my roommate [for theft] and the day before he was scheduled to go to court a third party came out of the woodworks to testify to the police that this so called friend of mine was the actual culprit.  Since that incident I have been way too paranoid to leave that sort of change laying around (a nice chunk for me at the time, nominal to some). I could hunt her down and attempt to make her life miserable but many years have passed and I’ve decided to let it go.

As for the “Beltway Madam”, here is my take on it. If she goes down, they should go down too (so to speak). I am not a huge fan of the civil asset forfeiture process. This gives the government carte blanche to do whatever the hell they want with your money and property and it pisses me off to no end. What happened to innocent before guilty? As so aptly pointed out on Ms. Palfrey’s site:

The unfairness of the civil asset forfeiture procedure as currently applied in the present day makes the intended target, as it has here with Ms. Palfrey, indigent and thus incapable of mounting a proper legal defense, either civilly or criminally. The strategy is to place an individual in a position whereby they are forced to accept whatever “deal” the government offers, as they are minus the necessary resources to fight back; a true David and Goliath scenario.

A nightmarish scenario as such leaves citizens no choice but to funnel their funds in offshore accounts or stash it in some secret locale rather than take a chance on their own government looking out for them. I suppose you could say another option is staying out of trouble but come on, let’s f*cking’ get real.

That didn’t stop 15,000 men.

Related links: Deborah J. Palfrey Defense Fund