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<DIV>In a message dated 4/30/2007 12:16:22 P.M. Central Daylight Time,
mofunnow@swbell.net writes:</DIV>
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<P>Message<BR><BR>Randall L. Tobias, resigned Friday as his name came up in an
investigation of his link to a call girl operation. His job was leading a $15
billion program to fight AIDS worldwide. Ironically he was sued previously <A
title=http://www.philanthropy.com/free/update/2007/02/2007022801.htm
href="http://www.philanthropy.com/free/update/2007/02/2007022801.htm">http://www.philanth<WBR>ropy.com/<WBR>free/update/<WBR>2007/02/20070228<WBR>01.htm</A>
for prohibiting grants to Asis if they refused to disavow
prostitution.<BR><BR>In 1994 his wife committed suicide after she had begun to
take Prozac.
www.paul-j-anderson<WBR>.com/documents%<WBR>5CThe%20Outsider<WBR>.pdf
<BR><BR><A
title=http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/28/washington/28resign.html?_r=2&hp=&adxnnl=1&oref=slogin&adxnnlx=1177765779-x43mVpOOm6hUsvo9VMweTQ
href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/28/washington/28resign.html?_r=2&hp=&adxnnl=1&oref=slogin&adxnnlx=1177765779-x43mVpOOm6hUsvo9VMweTQ">http://www.nytimes.<WBR>com/2007/<WBR>04/28/washington<WBR>/28resign.<WBR>html?_r=2&<WBR>hp=&adxnnl=<WBR>1&oref=slogin&<WBR>adxnnlx=11777657<WBR>79-x43mVpOOm6hUs<WBR>vo9VMweTQ</A><BR>Federal
Official Resigns in Inquiry of Escort Service <BR>By MATTHEW L.
WALD<BR>Published: April 28, 2007<BR>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.<BR><BR>On Friday night, ABC News said Mr. Tobias
had confirmed on Thursday that he was a customer of an escort service.
<BR><BR>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. <BR><BR>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.<BR><BR>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."<BR><BR>Mr. Tobias told ABC that he used the service for massages,
not sex, according to the network's Web site.<BR><BR>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.<BR><BR>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.<BR><BR>President Bush nominated him in July 2003 to lead
a $15 billion program to fight AIDS worldwide. <BR><BR>At the time, some AIDS
experts said Mr. Tobias did not have much experience with AIDS or Africa.
<BR><BR>Then, as director of United States Foreign Assistance, he held the
rank of ambassador. <BR><BR>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.
<BR><BR>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." <BR><BR><A
title=http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18359307/
href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18359307/">http://www.msnbc.<WBR>msn.com/id/<WBR>18359307/</A><BR><BR>Sources:
Aid chief quits over call-girl link<BR>High State Department official Tobias
reportedly tied to 'D.C. madam' probe<BR>Randall Tobias resigned Friday. The
State Department cited "personal reasons."<BR><BR>By Glenn
Kessler<BR><BR>Updated: 11:21 p.m. ET April 27, 2007<BR>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.<BR><BR>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.<BR><BR>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."<BR><BR>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."<BR>Claims no sex involved<BR>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."<BR><BR>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.<BR><BR>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."<BR><BR>Within minutes of McCormack's
announcement, Tobias's biography was removed from the USAID Web
site.<BR><BR>State Department officials declined to comment further on the
reasons for Tobias's resignation.<BR><BR>"I'm sad today," said one person
close to Tobias. "The president loves him and Condi absolutely loves
him."<BR><BR>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.<BR><BR>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.<BR><BR>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.
<BR><BR>ABC mining client list<BR>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.<BR><BR>"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."<BR><BR>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.<BR><BR>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.<BR><BR>Led AIDS relief
efforts<BR>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.<BR><BR>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 Department produced
documents showing exactly how much aid was going to each country. He has
proven so essential to Rice's plans that she had refused to let him leave even
though officials said he had wanted to resign from the high-pressure job for
at least six months.<BR><BR>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,<WBR>" which he
described as "people who come from the top of the corporate ladder who
consider congressional suggestions, requests for information and participation
in decision-making as intruding on their turf."<BR><BR>Staff writers Michael
Abramowitz, John Solomon, Carol D. Leonnig, Howard Kurtz and Martin Weil and
researcher Julie Tate contributed to this report.<BR><BR>© 2007 The Washington
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