Sen. Vitter And D.C. Madam May Reunite in Court
It looks like Sen. David Vitter (R-La.) may finally have to answer questions about how his number wound up repeatedly on the so-called D.C. Madam's phone list between 1999 and 2001 when he was a House member.
Vitter, who admitted last year that he had committed a "very serious sin," is among a half dozen witnesses who the defense lawyer for former escort service owner Deborah Jeane Palfrey plans to call to the witness stand during Palfrey's racketeering and money-laundering trial. Jury selection began Monday morning in U.S. District Court in Washington.
According to the New Orleans Times Picayune, Judge James Robertson on Friday denied a motion by Vitter's attorney, Henry Asbill, to quash a subpoena. Asbill indicated his client planned to invoke his 5th Amendment rights not to answer questions.
Palfrey has argued that her employees provided legal erotic fantasy services, not actual sex, for paying clients. Her lawyers have long suggested they would call Vitter to the stand to help bolster their argument.
Vitter, who has said nothing about the case beyond last year's vague apology, issued a statement Friday saying "how sorry I am to have hurt the people I love so deeply, starting with my family and certainly including the people of Louisiana."
The senator's office did not respond to a request for comment today about whether Vitter plans to take the Fifth if he is, indeed, called to the witness stand.
By Mary Ann Akers |
April 7, 2008; 1:45 PM ET
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Posted by: thebob.bob | April 7, 2008 2:03 PM
Don't forget that McCain's first wife was battling cancer at the time, something in common when Newt was doing the same thing.
Posted by: Patrick NYC | April 7, 2008 2:24 PM
Hilarious.
Posted by: Tetris | April 7, 2008 2:41 PM
Gotta love it. One way or another these guys get a Federal salary to scr*w up.
Posted by: DFC | April 7, 2008 7:35 PM
and dont forget teddy kennedy, who 40 years ago committed manslaughter of his lover by driving off a bridge while driving under influence, then waiting 24 hours til he sobered up to report the incident. yet all these years later, the scion of the Kennedy Crime family still sits on the family seat in the senate, never having faced the prison cell he so richly deserves.
Posted by: Thermopylae | April 7, 2008 9:43 PM
Why do "blue collar" workers vote Republican when that party has done nothing for them but sc**w them?
Posted by: Desmond P McGuire | April 8, 2008 12:56 PM
The hypocrisy of so many people in this country is afixiating. So many of them seems so sick, they take delight in the foible of others. No one is without sin, no not one, that is where the hypocrisy comes in. They need to live and let live, each person sins will evently catch up with them. This country is in deep trouble morally.Just look at what comes over the TV, the radio, in the movies and we wonder why our children behave the way the do?? How naive can so call intelligent people be? We plant the in the wind and will reap the whirlwind. We as nation must pay for our sins. The injustices to which we have subjected other people and we do not expect it to come back at us? There is sucfh a thing as retribution. There are some good people in this society, but imorality,which takes its license from the belief that liberty means licentiousness. People in this country needs a moral rearmament, but very soon.
Posted by: J.J.Estemac | April 9, 2008 6:11 PM
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Why is this guy still in the Senate? Why is Craig still in the Senate? Oh right! This is the Republican Party..the "Values" party. Even their Presidential candidate was screwing around on his first wife. Young Wifey II demanded a prenupt agreement that cuts him off (oh no! not that!) from the dough if he wanders again.