[privacy] D.C. Madam Can Peddle "Call" List

["Richard M. Smith" <rms () computerbytesman com>]

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2007/0705072palfrey1.html
 
JULY 5--A federal judge today gave the green light to the so-called D.C.
Madam to distribute phone records that contain the numbers of her upscale
and connected clientele. In a ruling filed in U.S. District Court in
Washington, D.C., Judge Gladys Kessler vacated two previous orders that
barred veteran pimp Deborah Palfrey from selling or distributing a decade's
worth of phone records for Pamela
<http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/1201061palfrey1.html> Martin &
Associates, the escort service Palfrey founded in 1993 and ran for 13 years.
In the ruling, a copy of which you'll find below, Kessler rejected various
prosecution arguments, including the claim that potential witnesses could be
harassed if the phone logs were disseminated. Before Kessler issued a pair
of temporary
<http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2007/0307071palfrey1.html>
restraining orders, Palfrey provided ABC News with four years worth of her
escort service's phone logs, which the network used for a May sweeps report
on "20/20." The records are Palfrey's own property and not the subject of a
government forfeiture action. As such, Kessler ruled, she was not going to
take the "extraordinary step of freezing the personal property of an
individual, not yet convicted of any crime, and barring her from giving away
that property." (8 pages) 

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