Miss France loses crown in sex scandal (having lost here innocence many years ago) - Amazing pictures

Gorgeous 5 foot 7 inches , busty brunette Valerie Begue, a 22-year-old student from the French Indian Ocean island of Reunion, returned home a hero at the weekend after her victory in the Miss France competition. (In 2005 the winner turned out to have posed for Playboy magazine and lost her cheap coronet)

Organisers have taken exception to photographs which have been published by checkout scandal mag Entrevue, which they claim to be sexually suggestive... such as seductively lapping up some spilt yoghurt, and floating in a swimming pool on a crucifix. (?)

Old spoil sport 75 year old crone, Genevieve de Fontenay, a former model who has presided over the Miss France competition with a rod of iron since the 1950s, demanded that Miss Begue be stripped of her crown..."It is absolutely unacceptable. She must resign immediately, and if not we will make her leave. I wouldn't want to be seen touring the provinces with a girl like that," she said.

Contestants guarantee that they have never been photographed in compromising positions when they enter.

Residents of Reunion are insulted and held a demonstration in her home town of Saint-Leu and politicians dashed off a letter of protest to Paris.

Roman Catholic bishop Bishop Gilbert Aubry described her as “a victim in need of our help”.

The disgusting pictures published by Entrevue magazine can be seen here.... and here

Jeane Palfrey puts up her telephone List (for sale ?) on her website - her Podcast link

STOP PRESS Monday 9th July - Telephone Records NOW available FREE - Link

Jeane Palfrey's website has just posted that anyone can apply for her telephone records, released by Judge Kessler yesterday. Her e-mail address is mbsibleydjp@civilforfeiture.com

Reuters has a story today, "Accused D.C. "madam" offers phone records to media" in which they say that she is makinga pre-c0ndition requiring recipients of the phone records to comply with several conditions, including one stipulating that the numbers not be published, traded or sold to third parties.

They must also agree not to disclose the identity of any woman who worked for Palfrey's business without first obtaining the woman's permission.

How soon before the MSM get stuck into this story ? The Miami Herald already has a story

''It is my patriotic duty to release these records,'' Palfrey told the New York Daily News.

But Palfrey, who faces federal racketeering charges for running what she insists was a legitimate escort service, said she will give only ''coded'' copies of the list to ''responsible'' reporters, bloggers or private detectives who promise not to put them on the Internet.

Palfrey expects to unveil up to 100 customers who risked national security, ''violated the public trust'' or were hypocritical consumers of her company's prurient services.

''These are the real power movers and shakers in Washington,'' she said.

``The rest of them I hope to leave the hell alone. I don't want to destroy the lives of the other 9,900 clients or the lives of the girls.

Raw Story picks up on an interview with the Vallejo Times, Palfrey (who live in Vallejo CA) said she would make the 46 pounds of Sprint phone records available to any member of the media, including bloggers.

"A couple dozen to 100 or so" of the 10,000 names listed in the records are high profile names, said Palfrey.

With the injunction lifted, it appears Palfrey can now "distribute the records en masse to as many responsible journalists, press, media, bloggers in this country," as she has promised.

ABC News obtained a partial list from Palfrey and her publicity shy lawyer Montgomery Sibley in May, but in the 11th hour decided not to release them, instead only airing a bland interview with Palfrey.

Palfrey told the Vallejo Times

"Within 24 hours the whole thing was whitewashed," They had names to name and
they didn't name them. Who knows who got to them -- I think the powers that be
at Disney (ABC's parent company) were exerting pressure on them to kill the
story and they killed it at the last minute."

"I kind of think it will be like deciphering the Da Vinci Code," said Palfrey, in an exclusive (and very lengthy) Times-Herald interview at a local coffee shop with Matthias Gafni published on July 1st before the records were released.

In the interview, Palfrey declined to discuss her former business or whether it involved prostitution.

"Does it really matter at this point? I think there are bigger fish to fry here," she said.

How did she know the records weighed in at the much quoted 46lbs? Shipping them through the Benicia UPS store to her attorney in Washington Palfrey said the UPS clerk told her how much they weighed:

"46 pounds."

You don't get detail like that in the MSM or even Time Magazine with all their "fact" checkers.

Interesting insight into activities of Montgomery Sibley here at Suzi Q

Wall Street Journal Law Blog have an up to date review of the court appointed attorney for Jeane Palfry, Preston Burton (posted as registration is required)

July 5, 2007, 1:39 pm
Orrick’s Preston Burton: From Monica to the D.C. Madam Posted by Peter Lattman
A decade ago, Orrick’s Preston Burton represented Monica Lewinsky in the investigation of President Clinton by Kenneth Starr and in the impeachment proceedings before the U.S. Senate. Today, he’s representing Deborah Jeane Palfrey, a woman accused of operating a call-girl ring inside the Beltway. Palfrey says she was running an adult fantasy business and her escorts were not engaged in prostitution.

How did he come to represent Palfrey, whom the media has labeled the D.C. Madam? “Several weeks ago, I was minding my own business on a Friday, and Judge Gladys Kessler called me up and asked me if I was willing to take a court appointment in that case,” Burton told Corporate Crime Reporter. “And after checking with the powers that be here at Orrick, who were all very supportive, I agreed to do it. And we are in the midst of that right now.” (Click here for a Law Blog post on her colorful civil attorney, Montgomery Blair Sibley.)

The CCR spoke with Burton about his more-mainstream clients — alleged white-collar criminals. He told them that when it comes to corporate criminal investigations, he bemoans the “free the corporation, blame the individual” dynamic he’s witnessed the past few years. But now, instead of companies throwing their employees under the bus to resolve a government probe, Burton sees a shift.

“Now you have some companies who are not immediately rolling over and waiving the attorney-client privilege,” he told the CCR. “You are seeing some subtle signs of companies standing behind their people more than they were four or five years ago, when there was a rush to locate the rogue employees, throw them under the bus, distance themselves, and try and dust yourself off and start all over again.”

...and Finally and Very Bestest of all ...

Jeane interviewed in a Podcast (53 mins 24 s) with Columbia Indymedia on June 24th which you can listen to here (Thanks Bob Fitrakis & Harvey Wasserman!) - if interested in this fascinating case you must listen to this.

Although Ms. Palfrey was charged under R.I.C.O. statutes, she was not charged with tax evasion - there were no "co-conspirators" charged along with her. In 13 years of business, she had no girls arrested and no tax audits. She reported her income, filed her taxes and all of her employees received a 1099 each year - who also paid taxes - for 13 years straight, never once questioned.

It takes two or more to make a conspiracy ... prostitution is not illegal , it is not a Federal crime. Yet nowhere have Federal Attorneys ever prosecuted for prostitution - so Jane asks, why me ?..and why only me ?

One thing is for certain sure .. Brian Ross and his producer Rhonda Schwartz of ABC/Disney have a lot of questions to answer for the results of their "exclusive" seven weeks of investigations.

UPDATE

Washington Post have the story

Alleged Madam Can Distribute Records

By LUBNA TAKRURI The Associated Press Friday, July 6, 2007; 12:42 AM

WASHINGTON -- A woman accused of running a prostitution ring in the nation's capital is free to distribute thousands of pages of phone records after a federal judge lifted a restraining order on Thursday. ..... it tells you nothing you don't know if you have got this far.

Do not miss the Podcast - Listen NOW

Russian newspaper Gazeta
....has a fascinating view on the story - calling Madame Jean's girls "priestesses of love" ...

Jeane Palfrey has gag on phone list removed by Judge Kessler

STOP PRESS - Records now available Free 9/7/07 Link
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Washington Madame Jeane Palfrey (whose satisfied (?) clients include Veep (and War criminal) Cheney and Harlan "Shock and Awe" Ullman , Randall Tobias, Dick Ford ) who counted leading lights of Washington political / military circles amongst her clients sent an e - mail today to Citizens For Legitimate Government


'HELLO… Judge Kessler (see pic)has lifted the injunction on the phone records.' From Judge Kessler's Order: (see heading above)

"Defendant in this case possesses a list of telephone numbers (the "List") that has generated much controversy and speculation.

The Government has twice applied to this Court ex parte for Temporary Retraining Orders ("TROs") preventing Defendant from selling the List or from distributing copies for free.


The Court granted those applications, in order to preserve the status quo, and, therefore, held a hearing to give Defendant an opportunity to respond.


Upon consideration of the pleadings,the applicable statutes and case law, and the oral argument, the Court concludes the Defendant's request to quash the TROs should be granted."


I asked Jeane Palfrey for a comment: "I am very, very grateful to Judge Kessler,**** (President of the National Association of Women Judges from 1983 to 1984) for lifting the injunction." –Sincerely, Jeane

"On August 17, 2006, Judge Kessler issued a final verdict finding that the tobacco companies had engaged in massive wrongdoing and violated civilracketeering (RICO) laws by lying for decades about the health risks oftheir products and their marketing to children. As one of her remedies,Judge Kessler prohibited the tobacco companies from continuing to usedeceptive terms like "light" and "low-tar." The tobacco companies subsequently asked her to allow them to continue using these misleadingterms outside the United States, essentially a request to continue todeceive their international customers. Today, Judge Kessler decisively andappropriately rejected this absurd request that could only come from an industry that survives on deception."

Statement of William V. Corr Executive Director, Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids March 16th 2007

I like the sound of Judge Kessler.

The Brad Blog has what appears to be informed comment and have spoken to the lady since Judge Kessler announced her decision about the phone records.Commentators provide some fascinating remarks on potential/possible / actual users of Jeane Palfrey's whores - and the capacity for blackmail.

If the logs become available one site . The Renegade Movement has posted a White House telephone Directory for comparisons to be made.


The story even gets a mention in Russian Newspaper Gazeta where Lady Dame Jeane Palfrey the Washington Madam's girls are called "priestesses of love". Amazing pictures !

Cheney named as customer of Madame Jeane Palfrey's escort service

Vice President Cheney (the guy who shoots lawyers) leaves Washington agog today as he heads off for a weeklong trip to the Middle East, where he will visit the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Jordan, and the USS John C. Stennis in the Gulf. As this is posted he is in the middle of an unannounced visit to Baghdad where he is getting a firsthand briefing on conditions from Gen. David Petraeus, the top U.S. commander in Iraq, and the new U.S. ambassador , Ryan Crocker. (previously Ambassador in Pakistan - that's him with Condi in the pic)

Cheney will aso meet Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, as well as with Iraq's Kurdish president Jalal Talabani's and theIraqi Sunni and Shiite vice presidents.

This is only his 2nd visit to Iraq, his first was in December 2005. His principal aim is to get the Parliamanet not to have a summer break and get the goddam oil legislation through.

The Wayne Madsen Report(WMR) states that the former CEO of a major corporation and extremely high-level official of the Bush administration - an individual, who is definitely "newsworthy," reportedly engaged the services of Madame Jeane Palfrey's escort firm while he was the CEO and maintained a residence off Chain Bridge Road in the Ballantrae neighborhood in McLean, Virginia, a few blocks from the headquarters of the CIA was Dick Cheney.

WMR claims they have confirmed with extremely knowledgeable CIA and Pentagon sources that the former CEO who is on Deborah Jeane Palfrey's list is Vice President Dick Cheney. Cheney was CEO of Halliburton during the time of his liaisons with the Pamela Martin & Associates escort firm. Palfrey's phone invoices extend back to 1996 and include calls to and from Cheney.

WMR points out that in 2000 Cheney was appointed by Bush to head his Vice President selection committee. The result of which, after gathering detailed personal files on a number of potential candidates, including Bill Frist, George Pataki, John Danforth, Fred Thompson, Chuck Hagel, John Kasich, Chris Cox, Frank Keating, Tom Ridge, Colin Powell, and Jim Gilmore. Cheney ...er ... selected himself.

WMR say White House saw to it that ABC/Disney killed the DC Madam's story before yet another scandal swamped the Bush administration.

See also Axis of Logic

Update

The Court have appointed a high powered, ace, blue blood, high profile Defence lawyer for Jeane Palfrey - Preston Burton who does his lawyering at Orrick,s a blue riband 150 year old firm with approximately 980 lawyers in 18 offices worldwide. Mr. Burton represented Monica S. Lewinsky in the investigation of President William J. Clinton by the Office of Independent Counsel and in the impeachment proceedings before the U.S. Senate - and therefore can be expected to understand what sexual intercourse is (and what is not).

Preston Burton had the task of escorting the star witness around town, shuttling between her apartment, the courthouse and Starr's office.

"I served as an unofficial bodyguard," said Burton, a 41-year-old defense attorney and former federal prosecutor. "I got shoved a lot and shoved back. I don't think I'll ever experience anything quite like it again, in terms of being in the center of something like that. . . . Throngs of people pushing and shoving to get a glimpse of her." WAPO 27.7.04

He also represented former CIA intelligence agent Aldrich H. Ames, former FBI Special Agent Robert Hanssen, and former Defense Intelligence Agency analyst Ana Belen Montes in their high-profile espionage prosecutions. But it was the Lewisnky case that must have brought a flush to his youthful cheek....

To avoid the media, Burton and Lewinsky occasionally employed evasive tactics. Instead of pulling into the parking area for her Watergate residence, they entered the hotel, took the elevators to the garage, then switched to another bank of elevators up to reach the condominiums.

"I didn't appreciate being part of something historic. I didn't view it in that way at the time," Burton said. "It was more like we were just working our tails off, going through interminable debriefing sessions with Starr's people and watching people argue about this on TV."

For all the marathon workdays and stresses of being hunted by the media, Burton enjoyed the "Summer of Monica." ***

"We were working on the biggest case in the city, if not the country, and we got a fabulous result for the client," said Burton, who helped arrange Lewinsky's testimony in exchange for immunity from prosecution. "It was some of the most fun I have had or will have practicing law. It was an exhilarating experience."

The government pays a modest fee of $92 per hour, with a maximum of several thousand dollars for the whole trial for such court appointed lawyers. A court might decide that a noteworthy defendant like Palfrey could take a view that a fair trial would require in the circumstances, a high-powered attorney on her team. In "exceptional circumstances," the judge can select a lawyer who doesn't appear on the panel rolls. Which is what he did. Lucky Jeane.

By strange coincidence Mike Rochford, former chief of the Espionage Section of the Counterintelligence Division of FBI, who handled the Aldrich Ames and Robert Hanssen cases and had never before spoken publicly before about it was at a seminar in UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism called "The CIA: In Fact and Fiction" this last weekend.

Lord Patel is setting up a UK Defence Fund for Jeane Palfrey and calls on fellow ex-clients of herPamela Martin & Associates escort firm's services to contact the office to make a small contribution. Discretion is assured.

****

Poet Roger McGough published a book of a single poem called "Summer with Monika" in 1965 (?) which had nothing to do with Monic L.

The first 2 lines were

I spent summer with Monika
Monika spent the summer with me

Another of the Lord Patel collection lost. stolen or lent and never returned.

UPDATE 10/5/07 2300hrs BST - Nice to see Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP of Atlanta Georgia, calling by twice to read the above.

They will have to call by a thrid time to catch this update from...Wayne Madsen Report

May 10, 2007 -- WMR has received a third well-placed confirmation that Vice President Dick Cheney, while CEO of Halliburton, was a client of the escort service of DC Madam, Deborah Jeane Palfrey. In addition, one of Cheney's closest military advisers and friends was also a client of the DC Madam's Pamela Martin & Associates escort service. Cheney used the escort service while he was a part time resident of the posh Ballantrae section of McLean, Virginia.

See Lord Patel's report (10/5/07) on the housing of senior Bush Administration officials / military and Bush family friends in Mclean, Fairfax County here.

Washington hi-jinks and low life to be exposed

It appears that when the Washington Post uses the terms "sensible heels" in article about Madame Palfrey it merely refers to her footwear when she was required to appear in court this week.

Talking of heels R. Bruce McLean, the chairman of blue chip law firm, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP, said they had placed a legal secretary on administrative leave yesterday because , apparently in in violation of a policy barring employees from holding second jobs. She told her bosses on Monday she moonlighted for Palfrey's escort service for "spa money," according to ABC's Web site. This also included using her e-mail account at the firm to correspond with Mrs Palfrey and helped her run the business end Pamela Martin and Associates, as well as servicing clients.

As Vernon E. Jordan Jr., 72, former chairman of the Clinton Presidential Transition Team is a senior partner in the Washington office, the firm must have a deep and wide experience of
the knotty problems of people who cannot keep their mind on the job .. er ... in hand.

Those with a long memory will remember Jordan helped Monica Lewinsky find a job, referring her to Revlon and another company where he serves on the board of directors - after having been asked to by Clinton's personal secretary Bettie Curry. He also had what appears to to be a memorable/unmemorable breakfast with Monica on New Year's Eve 1977 at the Park Hyatt Hotel, where Jordan often eats in the morning. He definitely did remember that he did not tell the former White House intern during their meal that she should go home and destroy any copies or drafts of notes she had sent Clinton that might establish their affair. Which was odd because 5 months previously she had testified that he told her, "Go home and make sure they're not there," he told her, according to her testimony. Lewinsky said she understood that to mean she should destroy the notes and she went home and discarded about 50 draft missives.

At first he denied this meeting but when confronted with a credit card receipt showing that he paid $39.55 for a fruit plate, fruit yogurt, cereal and English muffin on that date, he did say that while he did not remember that encounter when first asked last year, he had come to recall it since reading Lewinsky's subsequent testimony.

He was however anxious to portray his integrity and did admit in close questioning that, "I gave her a ride in my chauffeur-driven Akin Gump car."

If the question of sex with clients arises Jordan could be ahandy guy to have on board because few will forget the exchange reported to the grand Jury on March 3rd 1998

And I put the question to him. And he said –

Q: What was the question you asked?

A: "Mr. President, have you had sexual relations with Monica Lewinsky?" The President said, "No, never."

Which is just as well because that was the same answer he got when he asked Monica Lewsinky the same day ...and went on to clarify what he meant in cross examination..

Q: So in your mind when you asked her if she had sexual relations, you meant solely did she have sexual intercourse with him?

A: Yes, I meant sexual intercourse, period.

Must have been a memorable day that, not everyone, even a lawyer at Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP, gets the chance to ask the President of the worlds most powerful nation and a college intern if they have been making the two backed beast. Of course he failed to ask either or both of them if she'd sucked his cock or if he'd ejaculated over her pretty little blue dress - probably a bit over excited. Good job that Ringo Starr remembered to.

Apparently says the august Bruce McLean, the lady in question in the Palfrey case, hadn't sought approval for that particular job, and would not have been given it if she had asked. No mention of her running a legal, exotic fantasy sex service and on demand massage service using the firms time and systems. The lady in question , who so far remains un-named, but has a legal representative, the exotically named Athan Tsimpedes (1420 New York Ave., NW. Washington, DC 20005), who says his client is a Government witness.

ABC "20/20" at 10 p.m. EDT.

..was a damp squib if these reports are anything to go buy Here and Here

PS Update . Nice to report that the Dallas office of Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld logged in to the read this post n Saturday lunchtime - Howdy folks!