“As a result of Judge Kessler’s order of yesterday which set a hearing for Wednesday, November 28, 2007…on whether the injunction prohibiting Jeane’s suit against a former escort should be dissolved, Jeane has this day sought from the Clerk of Court subpoenas for Sen. David Vitter and Harlan Ullman, former customers of Paula Neble, an independent-contractor escort of Jeane’s escort service,” Deborah Jeane Palfrey’s lawyer Montgomery Blair Sibley has revealed.

In July, Vitter’s number turned up in Palfrey’s business records. A former hooker has since claimed an affair with him as well.

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Deborah Jeane Palfrey, the accused “DC Madam,” filed a memo with DC’s U.S. District Court today, detailing her plans to move forward with a “Honey Pot” defense, under the representation of lawyer Montgomery Blair Sibley.

The memo alleges that “the United States Government has been directly or indirectly benefiting from the operation of her service by monitoring her customers and is thus equitably barred from prosecuting her,” according to Sibley.

The pleading identifies not only already-known customers of the escort service — Sen. David Vitter, Randall Tobias, of USAID, and Harlan Ullman, a government advisor — but also confirms for the first time that another individual with very high government security clearance — Ronald Roughead, former Army Colonel Defense Attache — was also a customer. Read more…

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