Go Figure -- The D.C. Madam vs. the Boca Raton Madam

How does this work. Jeane Palfrey runs an escort service, make $100,000 a year, has famous and powerful clients and the government takes all her assets, convicts her of Racketeering and threatens to send her to jail for 55 years. Oh yeah, Jeane offered to cooperate which offer the Department of Justice refused to even hear.

Now comes Michelle Braun who runs an escort service, make $1,000,000 a year, has famous and powerful clients and the government lets her keep most all her assets, lets her plead to a minor charge, gives her house arrest for 6 months and probation.

As I said, go figure . . .

Boca mom in escort case poised to take plea deal

A Boca Raton woman charged with running a $50,000-a-night escort service is expected to take a plea deal and get probation.

BY KATHLEEN CHAPMAN

PALM BEACH POST

BOCA RATON -- Federal agents descended on a white stucco home a block from Boca's Old Floresta historic district in October 2007, and seized a computer belonging to Michelle Braun.

Prosecutors say the 31-year-old mother of two ran an international escort service that matched porn stars and centerfolds with men who could afford to pay up to $50,000 a night.

Braun was charged in March with money laundering and transporting a woman from Orange County, Calif., to New York City for the purposes of prostitution. In the weeks ahead, she is expected to accept a plea deal that requires her to cooperate with the IRS and FBI.

The deal includes five years of probation -- including six months of house arrest -- and a $30,000 fine.