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D.C. Madam Deborah Jeane Palfrey Found Dead From Apparent Suicide (Video) | Bitten and Bound

A woman believed to be Deborah Jeane Palfrey, the so-called D.C. Madam that was convicted of federal charges stemming from operating an escort service in the Washington D.C. area, was found dead from an apparent suicide in a Florida mobile home Thursday.

The Best Of Citizen Journalism: Orato.com's Top 50 Stories Of 2007

2007 was Orato s first full year of providing people with a platform and a voice, and we have been blown away by the vibrant response we ve had from our citizen correspondents. At last count, 3289 of you have posted more than 1,100 stories, videos and audio and image reports to the site, from every corner of the planet.

Capitol Hill awash in corruption and criminality

April was a not a good month for the Republican Party. Two Congressional Republicans were forced to step down from their seats on powerful House committees amidst separate corruption and influence-peddling investigations and may eventually lose their seats in Congress or go to jail while the head of the US Agency for International Development, Randall Tobias, resigned from his post Monday after he was named as a client of a Washington DC call girl service.

Washington gets ready to gossip as DC sex blog goes to court

The judge, too, seemed bemused by the case. "I don't know why we're here in federal court to begin with," Judge Paul Friedman told attorneys in April. "I don't know why this guy thought it was smart to file a lawsuit and lay out all of his private, intimate details."