From the San Francisco Gate:

A Vallejo woman indicted on federal charges for allegedly running a prostitution ring in Washington, D.C., said Monday that she has reached a deal to share phone records of thousands of clients with a media organization.

Deborah Jeane Palfrey, 50, said in an e-mail to a Washington radio station that she had decided to “hand over all phone records, logs and invoices (including those presently unknown to the government) to what I believe to be one of the most reputable and respected investigative news organizations in the country, to assist me with my needs.” She did not identify the organization.

In the e-mail to station WTOP, Palfrey said the records, which weigh 46 pounds and could include phone numbers of some 10,000 clients from 1993 to 2006, “need to be mined for potential defense witnesses in the criminal and civil cases currently pending against me.” Palfrey has previously threatened to sell the records to help pay for her defense.

Palfrey did not say whether any money was involved in the arrangement to hand over the records. Reached outside her Vallejo home Monday, Palfrey declined comment.

Montgomery Blair Sibley, an attorney who had been representing her in a civil asset-forfeiture case that is now on hold because of the criminal case, declined to say Monday whether the news organization was paying Palfrey for the records.