Here’s a story that could create new crisis management work for Washington-area public affairs firms: a woman in California is being charged with running a “high-end”
prostitution ring in DC, and to help pay legal costs may sell her phone records to the highest bidder.
Not a few people are curious if there are any famous – or at least “famous for DC,” as the local saying goes – names within the alleged 15,000 telephone records going back 13 years that could go on sale. Could the release of these names be more of a threat than a possibility? Possibly, but inquiring minds certainly have ways of finding out, as was seen in the BALCO-related grand jury testimony.