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permalinkUPDATE, 2:00 a.m., from Larry Sinclair: “Please feel free to post this if you so wish. I personally find nothing offensive or inappropriate with your recent post. If nothing else I find you have asked a question out loud that I am sure many have asked silently for some time. The tragic demise of Ms. Palfrey only put your question more up front. I will be posting this in the comments on my blog to inform how I feel about your post. Continue being you and having guts that so many other sites lack in their questioning.”
Original post, 6:44 p.m, May 2: In light of Deborah Jeane Palfrey’s sad, sad passing, many people have been writing in to Big Head DC, privately asking whether we think Larry Sinclair, the man who claims to have used drugs with Sen. Barack Obama in 1999, would ever consider suicide. Considering the political, cultural and other dark forces that Sinclair continues to face everyday, who can really say for sure? After all, when we interviewed Palfrey just a few short months ago (and regularly talked to her all the way up until early April), she always seemed strong, defiant, resilient and said in no uncertain terms that she would never consider killing herself. Yesterday, according to police, she went back on that word, put a noose around her neck, and jumped. She told us many times over how much she loves her mom; that she allowed her mom to find her dangling and lifeless makes the situation all the more shocking.
A recent post on Sinclair’s blog may tell us more about the inner demons he struggles with better than we could ever get via a direct answer from his mouth at any particular point in time:
Today, I actually finally for the first time since all this started broke down crying and just wanted to bungee jump off the Blatknic Bridge without the bungee cord. You have to be crazy to stand up to power and money in this Country. There is no such thing as “liberty and justice for all” in the United States of America any more.
I am even starting to wonder why I ever thought it was important for the truth to be told about anyone seeking to be President of the United States. Whats the point? If Michelle Obama can sleep with a man that she knows is laying in bed and car seats with other men, and raise her children with that man, then what does it matter? What does it matter if Obama gets in the White-house and fires up a crack pipe?
I am signing off for the night. Maybe I will log back on tomorrow and maybe I will not.
Should Sinclair keep up his battle for what he believes is right? Or should he try to move on and make it to another tomorrow — a tomorrow that Palfrey will never see? Only time will tell.
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reddit | facebook | del.icio.us | stumble | permalinkLong-time Big Head DC friend Deborah Jeane Palfrey passed away this morning at her mother’s home in Florida. Police reports are classifying the death of the “D.C. Madam” as a suicide. Palfrey had previously been found guilty of racketeering, money laundering and two counts of using the mail for illegal purposes. It is believed that Sen. David Vitter and other politicos used the services of Palfrey’s escort business, which she always defended as a “fantasy” escort business.
Earlier: Big Head DC’s Exclusive Interview with Palfrey
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Montgomery Blair Sibley, the former lawyer for alleged “D.C. Madam” Deborah Jeane Palfrey has provided Big Head DC with his initial comments on the guilty verdict rendered against her on Tuesday.
Sibley said he’s “disappointed, but not surprised” by the verdict, and added that he has not yet spoken to Palfrey. He does anticipate that there will be an appeal.
Preston Burton, Palfrey’s current lawyer who once represented Monica Lewinsky, has instructed his client to remain mum on the verdict, but she did let out an audible gasp when it was read in court.
Palfrey was found guilty of racketeering, money laundering and two counts of using the mail for illegal purposes. Sen. David Vitter is believed to have used what Palfrey has always maintained is a “fantasy” escort business.
Burton called no witnesses in Palfrey’s defense, and she did not take the stand.
Related: A BHDC Greatest Hit: Interview With the “DC Madam”
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reddit | facebook | del.icio.us | stumble | permalinkCitizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) executive director Melanie Sloan has released the following statement:
“In light of the revelations about Governor Eliot Spitzer’s use of prostitutes, we are reminded again that the Senate Ethics Committee has so far refused to investigate Senator David Vitter (R-LA), who admitted to using the services of the so-called D.C. Madam to solicit for prostitution. Although Governor Spitzer’s conduct is more serious — likely amounting to one or more felonies — both men are high level government officials who have publicly proclaimed their high moral standards. Both should have to live by those standards and be held accountable for their actions. The Ethics Committee should not continue to give Senator Vitter a pass.”
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reddit | facebook | del.icio.us | stumble | permalink“Today’s events regarding New York Democratic Governor Eliot Spitzer, in a politically charged election year is just one more indication to me that escort and adult service businesses – which cater to powerful and influential clientele – are now being used as the weapon of choice in American politics,” Deborah Jeane Palfrey, the accused “D.C. Madam,” tells Big Head DC.
Which means, of course, that you can expect many more such scandals to be revealed in the months to come. And the Mayflower Hotel, the pricey D.C. establishment where Spitzer is alleged to have met his prostitute on February 13, is more than likely the home to many more secrets. Stay tuned.
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We’ve long been telling you that ABC News utterly and royally muffed up the telling of the “DC Madam” story in May, and may have even covered up aspects of the story because the phone numbers of Sam Donaldson, a longtime ABC newsman, and other past or current ABC news personalities appeared in her escort records.
Now comes word that Brian Ross, the network’s lead DC investigative reporter on the Deborah Jeane Palfrey story, has conducted questionable journalism — and some of his past and current news peers are speaking out.
While several of Ross’ competitors say he’s a reporter who’s capable of breaking big stories, he also has a tendency to overplay smaller ones, they say. Jim Stewart, who recently retired from CBS News, has told the New York Observer that he has reservations about some of Ross’ work on ABC’s Web site, The Blotter. “Were they wrong some of the time? Yes,” said Stewart. “I’d rather be right than be first.”
A former ABC news employee also told the publication that there is intense internal pressure from ABC News execs to create page hits for The Blotter. Also, some reporters said they have been unable to retrace Ross’ scoops.
The Blotter was the first mainstream news outlet to break the Mark Foley tawdry IM story in 2006. While that story hasn’t been called into question, several other Ross stories, including those surrounding the “DC Madam,” continue to receive more scrutiny.
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Deborah Jeane Palfrey has been complaining for ages about the poor job she believes Judge Gladys Kessler has done in handling her case as she’s attempted to defend herself from the government thus far. This week, she finally got some vengeance with Kessler being transfered off her case and Judge James Robertson being assigned to preside. The new judge has set a status conference for Friday, December 14. You gotta wonder: Will his sex matter?
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It’s long been rumored in Washington political circles (especially Democratic ones) that one of Dick Cheney’s old Halliburton numbers appears in the records of “DC Madam” Deborah Jeane Palfrey, but now questions are multiplying regarding the Cheney matriarch’s faithfulness. New York Magazine this week published a piece by columnist Kurt Andersen, who states at one point, “I’m not talking about idle Schadenfreude, the fleeting, naughty satisfaction one takes, for instance, in Dick Cheney’s shotgun accident or his wife’s extravagant flirtations with a friend of mine over the years or even (forgive me, God) his atrial fibrillation last week.” Andersen is keeping mum on which of his friends Lynne Cheney has been making advances toward, but word is he’s younger and - no surprise - in better health than Dick.
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A press release sent this evening by Hustler publisher Larry Flynt confirms that a phone number belonging to ABC newsman Sam Donaldson appeared in the records of the alleged “DC Madam” Deborah Jeane Palfrey, as Big Head DC first revealed some time ago. Radar magazine and the Huffington Post have both falsely claimed that the Big Head DC story was somehow factually inaccurate. We have long claimed that the existence of Donaldson’s number in Palfrey’s records - combined with the existence of phone records of one or more other news personalities from the ABC network in the records - prevented ABC News from revealing a fuller report on the spectrum of politicos and others within Palfrey’s records when the network released their exclusive Brian Ross interview with Palfrey in May of this year. In essence, there was a cover-up by ABC News. Palfrey has confirmed as much to Big Head DC.
The full release follows: Read more…
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