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Senator receives subpoena to testify about escort use
November 14, 2007
WASHINGTON -- The "D.C. Madam" served a subpoena Tuesday on Sen. David Vitter, R-La., requiring him to testify about his use of the Washington, D.C., escort service federal prosecutors say was a prostitution ring.
The subpoena calls on the freshman senator to testify at a federal court hearing Nov. 28 looking into the business operations of the $2 million escort service Deborah Jeane Palfrey operated in the nation's capital for 13 years.
Vitter has acknowledged being a client of Palfrey's company, Pamela Martin & Associates, and his telephone number appeared six times in the firm's phone records between 1999 and 2001, when he was a member of the House of Representatives. He was elected to the U.S. Senate in 2004.
Vitter was served through his attorney, Henry Asbill, a veteran Washington defense attorney. Asbill has recently represented an AOL executive acquitted in February of accounting irregularities; Eddie Wedelstedt, the Colorado multimillionaire and self-proclaimed "porn king," convicted in 2006 of tax charges; and the appeal of a Virginia woman suffering from multiple personalities who killed her husband. He also has donated $2,300 to the Democratic presidential campaign of Illinois Sen. Barack Obama.
Vitter declined to say whether he would honor Palfrey's subpoena or challenge it. A spokesman said, "Sen. Vitter is completely focused on critical Louisiana priorities in the U.S. Senate."
http://www.nola.com/timespic/stories/index.ssf?/base/news- 2/1195021839260630.xml&coll=1
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Yeah, I'll bet he's focused on other priorities. LOL.
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