This should get entertaining...DC Madam Gives

[FourScore]

She gave away the client records (purportedly, 15,000 names including some high profile political ones)instead of selling them to a news org.

http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/03/14/strange-bedfellows-odd-turns-in-dc-madam-case/

"It might yet turn out to be what everyone seems to hope and expect: a tale of sex and power, secrecy and scandal, hypocrisy and comeuppance..."

[INDIA]

1. Idunno. I read somewhere that...

Her prices only went up to $300. That seems a bit piddly for the caviar and champagne beltway sleazeballs. Could be just a bunch of lonely low level government bureaucrats.

Pure speculation though. And please correct me if I'm wrong about the $300 dollar thing.

[hippiechick]

2. ... and as horrid as the reality would be,

.. I would absolutely love to see about 50 big name GOP 'family values' men on that list having paid for teenage boys, just to have them forced to face their own hypocrisy.

[renate]

3. clever reason for doing it

What, if not money, does Ms. Palfrey get out of that? The news organization’s help in combing the records and identifying customers, who can then become witnesses for the defense, the lawyer, Montgomery B. Silbey, told WTOP. And what does the news organization get? The opportunity to break the news if it finds anyone prominent in the list. About everybody else, we are told, the news organization has promised to be discreet.

Although why would the news organization be able to identify customers any more easily than she and her lawyers could?

[leftofthedial]

4. lots of Democratic names coming right up