WASHINGTON - WTOP Radio has learned a former escort, linked to a member of Congress, is set to testify alleged D.C. madam Deborah Jeane Palfrey's escort service provided illegal prostitution.
Paula Neble, who worked for Palfrey between 1999 and 2006, told a federal grand jury in D.C. she considered her work for Palfrey prostitution, according to sources familiar with her testimony. The sources say Neble's testimony made no mention of then-Rep. David Vitter, who is now a U.S.Senator representing Louisiana.
Palfrey has maintained Pamela Martin & Associates provided legal escort services.
Immediately after Palfrey was indicted in March on federal racketeering and money laundering charges, she filed a civil lawsuit against Neble, claiming breach of contract. That civil suit is on hold, pending Palfrey's criminal trial.
In both her criminal and civil cases, Palfrey maintains she hired "independent contractors to provide solely legal sexual services." Palfrey says her company catered to adult fantasy in the nation's capital, without legal entanglement, for 13 years.
In e-mails, Palfrey tells WTOP she believes Neble "was a favorite of Mr. Vitter's," but says any sex-for-payment arrangement would have been outside the structure of her legal escort business.
"I had each and every gal sign a contract with me at the onset of her association with me that while 'on my watch,' she would NOT cross the line into illegality. I simply could not control what any of the women did on their own time," Palfrey writes.
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