Madsen's 13 books include The Christian Mafia, published last spring just as the 2016 presidential campaign was assuming its formative stage. It argues that the Christian Dominionist movement and its allies "feel politically empowered not only to take over permanently the U.S. Congress but also the White House and Supreme Court."
But her appeal to Mukasey confronted one of the many insider connections revealed by an in-depth look: The attorney general's son, Marc Mukasey, represented one of the main suspected clients, Ullman, a l eading figure in Washington's war-making and media punditry. An official photo in 2007 shows the elder Mukasey, a New York City federal judge for 18 years before taking the Bush administration's top legal job.
For the first time last week, Sibley revealed how he obtained possession of the names related to 815 phone records previously withheld from those researchers like Madsen, who has long reported that the secret to the scandal is that Palfrey had close ties to the Central Intelligence Agency and its network of backers and spy targets. The Wayne Madsen Report (WMR), a subscription service, published a guest column by Palfrey in 2007. She argued the same theme, albeit less specifically.
DiBiagio was fired, along with a number of other US attorneys, after George W. Bush's re-election for political reasons. One of DiBiagio's public corruption targets was the staff of then-Republican Maryland Governor Bob Ehrlich, some of whom had engaged the services of Madam Palfrey's escorts.
Like Palfrey, Norris also came under investigation for tax evasion by the Baltimore IRS office. ABC's 20/20 reported that Madam Palfrey's escorts were also driven to expensive Washington hotels, including the Hay-Adams. Palfrey, herself, has suggested that some of her escorts may have been linked to the case of jailed California Republican ...
2 of 3 ###Live Caption: Tarpon Spring, Fla., police officers remove evidence as they continue to investigate the scene where Deborah Palfrey, also known as the DC Madam, committed suicide Thursday afternoon May 1, 2008 at her parents mobile home.
Palfrey, who was convicted of attempted pimping in a San Diego case in the early 1990s, had denied that her latest business, Pamela Martin and Associates, was involved in prostitution.
Palfrey was born in 1956 in North Charleroi, Pa., south of Pittsburgh. In her 1974 high school yearbook, she was described as someone who "likes sewing and dancing ... enjoys being with friendly, outgoing people" and plans to go to "airline school."