That's notorious DC Madam Jeane Palfrey describing a legal secretary at Akin Gump Strauss Houer & Feld LLP who was suspended after she disclosed her work with Palfrey's escort service. (From porn to prostitution, we cover it all here at Conglomerate.) According to the ABC story, "The firm has a policy prohibiting full-time employees from holding any other jobs." Apparently, the secretary felt that she could handle both the Akin Gump work and any administrative duties that might be involved in the escort service:
According to the e-mails provided to ABC News by Palfrey, the Akin Gump woman was interested in helping to restart the escort service after Palfrey had closed it, suggesting it could be done from the Akin Gump offices.
"It is a shame to basically throw away over a decade of hard work and contacts," she wrote last October, just before federal agents raided Palfrey's operation.
"I think that handling the phones 4 to 5 nights a week is a very fair offer and would be something that I could easily do, even with my paralegal duties as they could pretty much be done simultaneously in front of a computer," she wrote.
Related news? The "S&P 500 closed above the key 1500 level for the first time since September 2000, as stocks rose on better-than-expected productivity data."
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1. Posted by anonymous on May 3, 2007 @ 19:28 | Permalink
Related?
Stocks up, hire a hooker? I don't get it...
2. Posted by Gordon Smith on May 4, 2007 @ 6:13 | Permalink
Well, I suppose that fact that I am explaining this joke means that it didn't work, but as I read the story of the Aiken Gump secretary, I was impressed by her productivity ... which reminded me of the story about stock markets.
3. Posted by Jake on May 4, 2007 @ 20:07 | Permalink
An inaccurate summary of what the poor Akin Gump secretary is alleged to have done. She's alleged to be not merely administrative staff for the escort business, but an entertainer of clients in her own right. This does not necessarily make her a bad person, only a person who should pay more attention to the law.
4. Posted by hannah on September 5, 2007 @ 7:36 | Permalink
I can't help but to agree with you... but I guess the connotation for this kind of job has been a taboo ever since... And also, even the toronto escort service has been receiving faulty comments from critics...
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