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Record Nr.

UNINA9910797006703321

Autore

Vinson Henry W. <1960->

Titolo

Confessions of a D.C. madam : the politics of sex, lies and blackmail / / Henry W. Vinson ; with Nick Bryant

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Walterville, Oregon : , : Trine Day LLC, , [2014]

©2014

ISBN

1-937584-30-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (292 p.)

Disciplina

306.743092

Soggetti

Male prostitution - Washington (D.C.)

Evidence fabrication - Washington (D.C.)

Extortion - Washington (D.C.)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Title Page; Table of Contents; Copyright page; Epigraph; Foreword; Déjà vu; Country Roads; Songs of Innocence; Coming of Age; Dreams; D.C.; Nightlife; Blackmail; The Prince of Darkness; In the Eye of a Hurricane; A Light in the Shadows; The Mighty Wurlizter; Sleepless Nights; Greta and L. Ron; The Big House; Back to the Big House; A Third Act; Songs of Experience; Index; Back Cover

Sommario/riassunto

A firsthand account of how public officials and other well-connected individuals have been compromised or blackmailed by their sexual improprieties, Confessions of a D.C. Madame relates the author's time running the largest gay escort service in Washington, DC, and his interactions with VIPs from government, business, and the media who solicited the escorts he employed. The book details the federal government's pernicious campaign waged against the author to ensure his silence and how he withstood relentless, fabricated attacks by the government, which included incarceration rooted in trumped