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of his link to a call girl operation. His job was leading a $15 billion
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Federal Official Resigns in Inquiry of Escort Service
By MATTHEW L. WALD
Published: April 28, 2007
WASHINGTON, April 27 - The head of the Agency for International Development,
Randall L. Tobias, resigned abruptly on Friday for what he said were
"personal reasons," but an administration official said Mr. Tobias's name had come
up in an investigation of a suspected Washington prostitution ring.
On Friday night, ABC News said Mr. Tobias had confirmed on Thursday that he
was a customer of an escort service.
A woman from Vallejo, Calif., Deborah J. Palfrey, has pleaded not guilty to
charges that she operated a call-girl service in Washington, and has
threatened on her Web site to sell her client list to raise money for her defense.
ABC News reported that Ms. Palfrey had given the network thousands of phone
numbers of clients.
In court papers filed on April 11 in Federal District Court here, she
identified an adviser to the Pentagon as "one of the regular customers" of her
service. She posted the man's photo from his own Web site and tax records on a
house he owns in Washington.
On her Web site, Ms. Palfrey asserted that her service, doing business as
Pamela Martin and Associates, "functioned as a high-end adult fantasy firm
which offered legal sexual and erotic services across the spectrum of adult
sexual behavior."
Mr. Tobias told ABC that he used the service for massages, not sex,
according to the network's Web site.
The State Department referred all questions to Mr. Tobias's personal office
in Indianapolis. There was no reply to a message left there on Friday night.
At his Washington apartment building, the concierge said Mr. Tobias was not
in.
Mr. Tobias, 65, is a former chairman and chief executive of Eli Lilly &
Company and of AT&T International. He served as the chairman of the board of
Duke University from 1997 to 2000. He was also a major donor to various
Republican campaigns.
President Bush nominated him in July 2003 to lead a $15 billion program to
fight AIDS worldwide.
At the time, some AIDS experts said Mr. Tobias did not have much experience
with AIDS or Africa.
Then, as director of United States Foreign Assistance, he held the rank of
ambassador.
In January 2006, Mr. Bush said he would nominate Mr. Tobias to be the
administrator of the Agency for International Development. That position gave him
the rank of deputy secretary of state.
The White House did not confirm the circumstances of the resignation. Dana
Perino, a White House spokeswoman, said the president expressed "sadness and
disappointment" that Mr. Tobias was resigning. Mr. Bush expressed appreciation
for Mr. Tobias's work here and around the world, Ms. Perino said, and
"wished his family well in the future."
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Sources: Aid chief quits over call-girl link
High State Department official Tobias reportedly tied to 'D.C. madam' probe
Randall Tobias resigned Friday. The State Department cited "personal
reasons."
By Glenn Kessler
Updated: 11:21 p.m. ET April 27, 2007
WASHINGTON - Randall L. Tobias, the deputy secretary of state responsible
for U.S. foreign aid, abruptly resigned yesterday after he was asked about an
upscale escort service allegedly involved in prostitution, U.S. government
sources said.
Tobias resigned after ABC News contacted him with questions about the escort
service, the sources said. ABC News released a statement last night saying
Tobias acknowledged Thursday that he had used the service to provide massages,
not sex.
Tobias has been Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's point man in an
ambitious effort to overhaul how the U.S. government manages foreign aid, a key
part of her "transformational diplomacy" agenda. Just two days ago, President
Bush lauded Tobias for his work in the administration leading "America's
monumental effort to confront and deal with the HIV/AIDS epidemic on the continent
of Africa."
In an unusual statement issued at 5 p.m., State Department spokesman Sean
McCormack said Tobias informed Rice "today that he must step down as Director
of U.S. Foreign Assistance and U.S. Agency for International Development
Administrator effective immediately. He is returning to private life for personal
reasons."
Claims no sex involved
Contacted last night at his home in the District, Tobias, a former chief
executive of pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly & Co., declined to discuss the
circumstances of his resignation, saying he would "stick with the statement the
State Department released today."
According to ABC News, Tobias said he contacted the escort service "to have
gals come over to the condo to give me a massage" and that there had been "no
sex" involved.
In a memo yesterday to the USAID staff, James R. Kunder, acting deputy USAID
administrator, called the resignation "shocking news" and urged workers not
to be "distracted from our developmental and emergency work."
Within minutes of McCormack's announcement, Tobias's biography was removed
from the USAID Web site.
State Department officials declined to comment further on the reasons for
Tobias's resignation.
"I'm sad today," said one person close to Tobias. "The president loves him
and Condi absolutely loves him."
White House officials said Rice briefed Bush on the matter early yesterday
before he met with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. The president "was
saddened and disappointed and wished Dr. Tobias and his family well," spokeswoman
Dana Perino said.
Deborah Jeane Palfrey, who operated the escort service, was indicted on
federal racketeering charges in February and has threatened to expose her
high-profile client list.
Palfrey has contended that her escort service provided clients with
college-educated women who engaged in legal, sexual game-playing for $275 per
90-minute session in their homes or hotel rooms. Prosecutors allege she ran a
prostitution ring.
ABC mining client list
Palfrey's attorney, Montgomery Blair Sibley, said yesterday that he has been
contacted in the past few days by five lawyers asking whether their client's
phone numbers are on Palfrey's list of 10,000 to 15,000 customers from 2002
to 2006. Some have also asked about whether an accommodation can be made to
avoid identifying their clients, which Sibley said he is not able to promise.
ABC's "20/20" is mining that database of phone numbers, Sibley said, for a
news report on the more notable of Palfrey's customers.
"I presume '20/20' crews running around with cameras has led to this flurry
of activity," Sibley said. "That may cause some people to worry."
ABC reporters interviewed Palfrey last week, Sibley said, and asked her
about specific customers by name. Sibley declined to identity them or speculate
about Palfrey's clients whose identities may be revealed in coming days. He
said that in many cases, he and Palfrey did not have the investigative
resources to identify them from their phone numbers, but that ABC did.
ABC is grappling with the question of whether to air a report or identify
some of those on the list. "We can't comment on ongoing reporting," ABC News
spokesman Jeffrey Schneider said.
Led AIDS relief efforts
After a long career in the corporate world, including stints not only at Eli
Lilly but also as AT&T vice chairman, Tobias joined the administration in
2003 to be the first global AIDS coordinator, with the rank of ambassador. He
was responsible for a start-up program designed to spend $15 billion over five
years, with the largest share going to 12 African and two Caribbean
countries that account for roughly half the world population with HIV/AIDS.
Last year, Rice tapped Tobias to be the first director of U.S. foreign
assistance, with the rank of deputy secretary, giving him the task of both running
USAID and coordinating all foreign aid so that the delivery of aid would
more closely follow the administration'Last year, Rice tapped Tobias to be the
first director of U.S. foreign assistance, with the rank of deputy secretary,
giving him the task of both running USAID and coordinating all foreign aid so
that the delivery of aid would more closely follow the administration'<WBR>s
policy goals. Under Tobias, for the first time, the State De
The ambitious effort has been controversial on Capitol Hill, where Tobias's
style and performance have come under attack. At a hearing last month, Rep.
Tom Lantos (D-Calif.), chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee,
accused Tobias of "tycoonitis,The ambitious effort has been controversial on
Capitol Hill, where Tobias's style and performance have come under attack. At a
hearing last month, Rep. Tom Lantos (D-Calif.), chairman of the House Foreign Aff
Staff writers Michael Abramowitz, John Solomon, Carol D. Leonnig, Howard
Kurtz and Martin Weil and researcher Julie Tate contributed to this report.
© 2007 The Washington Post Company
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