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Senator Vitter Ordered to Testify at D.C. Madam Trial?
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A U.S. senator who admitted to using the "D.C. Madam" escort service is fighting a subpoena to testify at her trial –- down to the opening gavel this morning.
Defending herself against a sortie of felony charges stemming from running an alleged interstate prostitution business, Deborah Jeane Palfrey has subpoenaed Sen. David Vitter, R-La., to testify.
Vitter's telephone number appeared in the phone records of Palfrey's business for February 2001, which Palfrey had released to the media. At the time that was revealed, Vitter issued a statement confirming he had used the service. Through his lawyer, Vitter has said he will not testify.
At a last-minute hearing Friday, U.S. District Court Judge James Robertson appeared to reject an argument by a lawyer who has represented Vitter that his client's testimony would be "totally inappropriate," reported Legal Times. The judge declined to nullify the subpoena.
The lawyer, Henry Asbill, declined to confirm that Vitter was the client in question. Vitter's office also declined to do so, according to the New Orleans Times-Picayune. Instead it issued a brief statement from Vitter to "reaffirm how sorry I am to have hurt the people I love so deeply. . . including the people of Louisiana."
Asbill said that if forced to testify, his client was prepared to invoke his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination.
Palfrey has insisted that she was not running a sex-for-hire business but a legal "fantasy services" firm, and that the female independent contractors who worked for her were not to engage in intercourse.
April 7, 2008 | Permalink | User Comments (24)
Vitter is a republican NOT a democrat as you state in your story!!!
Posted by: RC | Apr 7, 2008 10:19:25 AM
Senator Vitter is a Republican, not a Democrat, as stated in your story.
He is also a sponsor of the "Marriage Protection Act".
Posted by: Scott | Apr 7, 2008 10:51:19 AM
Vitter should be sorry enough to do the honorable thing and resign.
Posted by: Sanity Man | Apr 7, 2008 11:33:15 AM
...Sen. David Vitter, D-La., to testify.
David Vitter is not a democrat as it says in this article. He is a republican. I see this "mistake" on Fox News Channel. But come on!
Posted by: J Spencer | Apr 7, 2008 11:36:39 AM
What did any of us expect? That a US Senator would actually OBEY THE LAW? Let me as YOU what would happen if YOU refused a court order to testify? NO DIVISION OF CLASSES HERE FOLKS... MOVE ALONG.
Posted by: RW | Apr 7, 2008 11:41:03 AM
Another hypocrite in republican party....., never ceases too amaze!
Posted by: RH | Apr 7, 2008 12:22:00 PM
Jsut another example of politicians trying to skirt the leagal system if it does not 'work for them'.
Posted by: bob | Apr 7, 2008 12:27:51 PM
He was a client and he should be forced to testify. Maybe he can bring Mrs Vitter - the Senators wife who kept criticizing Hillary Clinton for staying with Bill. Gee Mrs Vitter I guess you can give advice but you cannot take it. Hard to give up that kind of life huh ?
Posted by: jimbo | Apr 7, 2008 12:36:02 PM
Oh I see. This "Family Values" guy can spout all the nonsense about being sorry for hurting the people he loves and the people of Louisiana and can condemn others for their lives, but he cannot own up to his own misdeeds! What a hypocrite and what a coward.
Posted by: Brian, Decatur, GA | Apr 7, 2008 12:47:09 PM
Yea, and this guy was one of the more vocally promoters of the Clinton impeachment for lying about a B*J*.
And wasn't his wife the one all who said that Hillary should leave Bill....
Shoulda taken the glass house/throwing stones recommendation seriously.
Posted by: Roy | Apr 7, 2008 12:51:14 PM
WHAT a total SLIME Ball this Vitter is! Here's a woman defendent who has every RIGHT to suppoena him, and he...a SENATOR mind you...is OBSTRUCTING the JUSTICE System. He ONLY cares about saving his OWN skin! What a Scumbag! he should be Run Out Of Town on a Rail! I cannot believe he is even STILL a Senator!
Posted by: jjarden | Apr 7, 2008 1:33:49 PM
Vitter is a slut and shouldn't be in the senate. NYC mayor quit, as should this bag of gumbo!
Posted by: Nelly | Apr 7, 2008 1:36:50 PM
What a SCUMBAG Vitter is for Obstructing the Judicial System...and He's a SENATOR for crying out loud...he should be run out of town on a rail...I cannot believe he is even still a sentator...HE BROKE THE LAW!!!!!
Posted by: jjarden | Apr 7, 2008 1:44:25 PM
Sure, run an escort service that doesn't provide intercourse. Perfectly legal, and very unprofitable. So, if she's making money, then what are their clients spending money for? They can stay home and have imaginary roles for the cat if they aren't going to engage in intercourse.
Posted by: Dave | Apr 7, 2008 1:46:43 PM
Another Republican bum bites the dirt..Come November there may not be any left,they will all be in jail along with Bush and Cheney.
Posted by: Pat M | Apr 7, 2008 2:39:09 PM
There is NO END in Sight! pun intended! to the REPUBLICAN SLEAZE machine! Marriage is too good for homosexuals but apparently NOT good enough for the Grand Old Party sleazers either. Why is this man still in office?! Time's up.
What is an Ethics Committee?
Posted by: JOHNBCOPELAND | Apr 7, 2008 5:10:19 PM
Whenever someone wants to invoke their 5th Amendment in by opinion they are hiding something. Guess he will get voted out next time when he runs.
Posted by: Kathy | Apr 7, 2008 6:51:47 PM
But Vitters is a "family values" Christian.Like most everyone in the GOP he's a hyprocrite.
Posted by: AJ | Apr 8, 2008 1:37:09 AM
I find it interesting that the democrat party members about find it so pleasing to go after A Republican, as if any one man represents the whole party, yet is willing to ignore the MANY Democrat Party members who have been arrested for stealing, sleazing, lying (remember the one who was impeached for lying under oath? Billy Jeff?) and so on.
Where is your sense of honesty, your sense of justice? Oh, wait, I get it... there is no such thing when its a democrat speaking of a Republican...
talk about hypocrisy! careful of the stones you are tossing about in that glass house you have built...
Posted by: Theron Dunn | Apr 8, 2008 3:11:05 PM
Another Republican SCUM bites the dirt..Come November there wont be many left..They should arrest BUSH and CHENEY for war crimes..
Posted by: Pat M | Apr 8, 2008 10:40:35 PM
"...the people of Louisiana, who I love." Yes, but some more than others, right Dave? The rumor is that he liked being made to wear diapers; this was one of the GOP's young turks. All together now; WAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!
Posted by: JIM | Apr 10, 2008 5:22:07 PM
Looks like the Bush administration is at it again. Forcing another to resign from his job, because he won't put up with their lies in deceit. Another scandal strikes the fan to cover up all the lies, they have fed the nation.
How many more will they come up with before those jerks are finally out of Office?
Posted by: Judy | Apr 15, 2008 11:17:58 PM
One more suspect then to look at due to her apparent "suicide" today.
Posted by: dissfunktional | May 1, 2008 5:25:56 PM
He should do the honorable thing and GO TO PRISON!
Posted by: Truth Seeker We Are Change LA | May 4, 2008 3:36:33 AM
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