Today In The USA

But she also apologizes for having to out State Department official Randall Tobias.

There are as many angles to this story as there are clients in the DC Madam’s little black book and word is that our nation’s capitol is in a dither with lawyers running around trying to insure their famous client’s names do not get outed.

Here’s a hint for those guys ‘on the bubble’; you might want to get the prosecutors to drop the charges against Deborah Jeane Palfrey, for as long as she’s facing charges, she has you by the short-hairs…

An attorney for Deborah Jeane Palfrey, the alleged “D.C. Madam,” rejected accusations Monday that releasing a list of phone numbers used to dial Palfrey’s high-end escort service amounted to blackmail.

“I call that due process of law,” said Montgomery Blair Sibley, who represents Palfrey in a civil matter. “Why didn’t we start in October if we were trying to blackmail people for money?”

Read it at ‘D.C. Madam’: Releasing clients’ numbers not blackmail

A woman apologized Monday for outing a former top State Department official as a client of her escort service but said it was necessary to prove her company was doing legal business.

Read it at “D.C. Madam” Apologizes For Outing Client and understand that this gal is going to do what she has to do to protect herself…

Anthony Abbate, the Chicago 12-year veteran cop accused of beating a female bartender at Chicago’s Short Stop Inn and whose acts were caught in a video that caused worldwide rage has managed to get himself in even more trouble and is now facing 14 new felony charges.

A Chicago police officer accused in a videotaped beating of a female bartender has been charged with trying to intimidate witnesses by threatening to plant drugs on bar employees and arrest customers for drunken driving, prosecutors said Friday.

The indictment alleges that a woman acting as an intermediary for Abbate threatened that Abbate or other police officers would plant illegal drugs on bar employees or customers and arrest them if the videotape was turned over to anyone who could use it to make a case against Abbate. The woman also allegedly said customers would be arrested for drunken driving, the indictment said.

As if Abbate’s alleged use of a go-between was not bad enough, it would appear that someone is trying to drag other Chicago cops into the cover up. Things have gotten so bad that Chicago Police Superintendent Phil Cline facing the Abbate scandal and another alleged video taped beating of businessmen by other Chicago cops has decided it is a lost cause and has retired to greener and less embarrassing pastures.

Read it at More Charges Vs. Cop In Videotaped Beating and consider the possibility that Anthony Abbate just might be a one-man crime wave…

Child psychiatrist William Ayres, 75, former president of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, is facing charges on 21 counts of lewd and lascivious behavior involving seven former patients, most of whom were between the ages of 9 and 12 years-old at the time of the alleged offenses.

William Ayres, 75, appeared briefly in San Mateo County Superior Court with his wife and lawyer at his side as a prosecutor added three additional counts involving two new alleged victims to the indictment.

McKowan said many more alleged victims, both within and outside the statute of limitations, are continuing to come forward. At last count, she said there were nearly 40.

While most guys, especially those that have participated in sports or served in the military, have at one time or another had a physician take their ‘family jewels’ in hand, at least briefly, is it normal to have this type of exam as part of psychiatric treatment?

You know, as in “Strip, lie down on the couch then turn your head and cough” type examinations when one is 9-years-old??

Read it at Child Doc Pleads Not Guilty To Molestation and wonder if rather than being examined you were molested…