Supply Official Testifies She Moonlighted at Escort Service
By Paul Duggan
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, April 11, 2008; B03
A Navy officer testified in federal court in Washington yesterday that she moonlighted as a call girl for Deborah Jeane Palfrey's escort service for six months, starting in 2005, when the military says she was assigned to the Naval Academy as a supply officer.
Lt. Cmdr. Rebecca C. Dickinson, 38, who was placed on leave by the Navy "pending further administrative action," told a jury in U.S. District Court that she used the name "Renee" while having sex for money with male clients of Palfrey's now-defunct firm, Pamela Martin & Associates.
Dickinson, who enlisted in the Navy in 1986 and was commissioned an officer in 1993 after graduating from Auburn University, was the 13th admitted former call girl to testify since Tuesday in the government's case against Palfrey. Three former clients of the escort service also have testified.
Palfrey is charged with racketeering, money laundering and using the mail for illegal purposes.
The officer, like the other women, testified that Palfrey sent her to an initial encounter with a client to see how she would perform. She said she met the client at his Howard County home and, after some small talk, "we began to have sexual relations."
She did not say why she chose to work for Palfrey's firm or how many clients she had encounters with before quitting in April 2006.
"It was getting harder for me to do," Dickinson testified. "I had other responsibilities. I didn't like it." She added, "I quit for many reasons. . . . Partly because of other commitments....."
