Although a concerted effort by U.S. judge for the District of Columbia
James Robertson, Justice Department prosecutors, and the office of
Vice President Dick Cheney seeks to place a clamp on any further
revelations about the late "Washington Madam" Deborah Jeane Palfrey
and her Pamela Martin & Associates (PMA) escort service,
WMR has obtained further details about the case.

Palfrey allegedly took her own life by hanging herself in a utility shed
next to mother's Tarpon Springs, Florida home on May 1, 2008.
However, according to informed sources, the official Tarpon Springs
police report on Palfrey's death is incomplete and is still being written,
almost three months after her reported "suicide."
WMR has also learned that Palfrey told some close associates that
she attempted to kill herself at her Orlando condominium by overdosing
on pills three weeks prior to her hanging death. However, there was
no official report of the Orlando incident filed with authorities.

WMR has also learned additional details of the nature of the services
offered by some of PMA's escorts. WMR has obtained information that
two escorts, one based in Maryland and the other in Virginia,
were highly-sought-after dominatrices who specialized in performing
sexual acts for clients who suffered from forms of sexual dysfunction,
including paralysis. WMR reported in the past that Dick Cheney,
when the chief of Halliburton, availed himself of the services
of PMA escorts and was particularly fond of "toilet sports."
The dominatrices employed by PMA sexually performed for what
can be described as masturbatory spectator clients. Counted among
these were some of Washington's most powerful politicians and business elite.

From the beginning, according to WMR sources close to the case,
the White House, Justice Department, and top lawyers in Washington
tried everything possible to get Palfrey and her PMA escorts off
the front pages of the papers to prevent any further collateral damage
from her federal indictment for fraud-related charges. The move to
quash any more revelations about the case, such as those that
enmeshed Senator David Vitter (R-LA), former US Agency for
International Development director Randall Tobias, and Cheney
military strategy adviser Harlan Ullman, also involved having
U.S. Judge Gladys Kessler removed from the case. Kessler, who
preceded Robertson as trial judge in the Palfrey case,
was reportedly the recipient of unprecedented pressure
from the White House and other quarters after she made
a couple of rulings that were favorable to Palfrey.

Palfrey's assets were frozen by the Justice Department but now,
sources familiar with the case, report that a secret deal is being
worked out between Judge Robertson, the Justice Department,
and Palfrey's estate lawyer to unfreeze the financial assets,
reported to be around $1.5 million and allot a portion of them
to Palfrey's next-of-kin. All this, according to WMR's sources,
is to ensure continued silence in the case by all parties.
As witnessed in the criminal case against former Enron chief Ken Lay,
because his death occurred before prison sentencing, the case
against him was dismissed and his assets were retained by his family.
Dismissal of the criminal case against Palfrey would permit the
civil asset forfeiture case to proceed with much broader discovery options,
including depositions of some of PMA's principal clients, named and unnamed.
However, Robertson has prevented that from occurring by keeping
the details of the disposition of Palfrey's assets secret.
The silence also reportedly extended to the U.S. Navy. After U.S. Naval
Academy supply officer Lieutenant Commander Rebecca Dickinson
was called to testify in the Palfrey trial in April, and revelations that
Dickinson worked for Palfrey as an escort who used the name "Renee,"
the Navy placed the officer, who was mere months from being eligible
to retire, on administrative leave. WMR has now learned from a reliable
source that Dickinson has been permitted to quietly retire from the Navy.
Perhaps that is because the phone number of retired Army Colonel
Ronald Roughead, an official of the defense firm SAIC (Project Manager -
Global Media Development; Director, Network Services, Iraq Media
Network [Iraq wide]; Bureau Chief, Southern Bureau, Iraq, IMN;
Instructor/Mentor, US Army CGSC (Command and General Staff College);
US Defense Attache for Kenya and the Seychelles) appeared on
Palfrey's December 2005 phone records that were released prior to
her "suicide" and pursuant to a court order by Kessler that
permitted their release. Roughead's brother happens to be
Admiral Gary Roughead, the Chief of Naval Operations and
member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

WMR can also report that at least one CIA agent,
billed as a "private investigator," was involved in limiting
further damage in the Palfrey case and trial.

Robertson decided to send the Palfrey case to the jury without
calling any defense witnesses and after a series of e-mails between him,
the prosecutors, and the defense team. Although he promised to
make public those e-mails, Robertson has yet do do so.

The asset forfeiture case, separate from the criminal case
against Palfrey, was about to get worrisome for certain quarters
when Palfrey's former civil asset forfeiture attorney,
Montgomery Blair Sibley, formally gave notice that he was
going to subpoena convicted GOP lobbyist Jack Abramoff,
fired U.S. Attorney for Maryland Tom DiBiagio (fired because
he was focusing on the role of Maryland Republican Governor
Bob Ehrlich, Jr. and his senior staff as customers of PMA and
their involvement with "poker parties" in Washington involving
escorts and CIA officials, including Director Porter Goss and
Executive Director Kyle "Dusty" Foggo, as well as defense contractors
Brent Wilkes and Mitchell Wade and Representative
Randy "Duke" Cunningham), and convicted former Baltimore
Police Commissioner and Ehrlich Maryland State Police
Superintendent Ed Norris.

Sibley was suspended by the DC bar and was removed from the
Palfrey civil asset forfeiture case by Judge Robertson.
Sibley recently appeared at a National Press Club news conference
representing Larry Sinclair, a Minnesota man who claimed to
have had two sexual encounters with Barack Obama.
Sibley told WMR that his taking on of that case and the wearing
of his trademark kilt is to stay as highly visible as possible.
He said he has been followed by unknown individuals on a number
of occasions since Palfrey's death, including when he has been
with his young son, and fears that he could meet with foul play.
Sibley is now writing a book about the Palfrey case and the
misconduct of the Justice Department in the matter. He wishes it
to be known that he is placing the manuscript outside the United States
and is soon going abroad to complete work on the book, which,
he assures, will contain some explosive revelations about the Palfrey case.