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DC MADAM CASE TIED TO MARYLAND CORRUPTION

WAYNE MADSEN REPORT -  The corporate media still does not get it about
the so-called "Washington Madam" case. Beyond just another titillating
DC sex scandal, this affair involves the U.S. Attorneys firings, massive
bribery involving military and homeland security contracts, and
potential blackmail of high government officials. WMR can report that
Disney and ABC executives spiked the Washington Madam story at the very
last . . . The decision by Disney and ABC to kill the 20/20 story
resulted in a shocked news staff at ABC News' DeSales Street bureau
across the street from the Mayflower Hotel, one of the rendezvous points
for some Pamela Martin clients. Our sources stated that Ross, Schwartz,
Rood, and others at ABC tried their best to get the story out but were
overruled by senior executives at ABC in New York and Disney
headquarters in Burbank, California who, in turn, were under heavy
pressure from the Bush White House.

The Washington Madam case also involves criminal conspiracy and
malfeasance within the Justice Department, Internal Revenue Service, and
Postal Inspection Service. Palfrey's case file was not opened until June
2004 after she had been in business for over a decade without any
pressure from the government. After Baltimore Police Commissioner and
later Maryland State Police Superintendent Ed Norris was charged in May
2004 with three criminal counts by US Attorney Thomas DiBiagio, the IRS
opened a file on Palfrey the following month. It is clear that with
Norris, a 20 year veteran of the New York Police Department, facing up
to 30 years in prison, he entered into a plea bargain with DiBiagio. In
return for his cooperation, which included Norris naming Pamela Martin
as one of the recipients of Baltimore Police supplemental accounts
money, he got six months in prison and six months home detention. Norris
now hosts a radio show in Baltimore.

DiBiagio's assistant US Attorney Jonathan Luna, who once worked at the
Brooklyn District Attorneys' office when a probe was being conducted of
both Norris and his friend, former New York Police Commissioner Bernard
Kerik, was on to Norris' corruption in Baltimore. Baltimore Mayor Martin
O'Malley appointed Norris as police commissioner but soon became
disenchanted with his performance. After his relection as Governor in
2002, Maryland Governor Robert Ehrlich appointed Norris as Maryland
State Police Superintendent. Luna was brutally murdered near the
Pennsylvania Turnpike in December 2003.

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