If the D.C. Madam is convicted and no one cares, does she make a sound? Deborah Jeane Palfrey, the so-called D.C. Madam who got every Washington watcher all hot and bothered last year over her impending trial and purported client list, and then proceeded to bore everyone to tears with how mundane the scandal turned out to be, was found guilty today on charges of racketeering, mail fraud and money laundering. Not that you probably cared one way or the other. We know we didn’t.

In case you missed the Post’s excellent story on how dull the trial really was, give it a read. It’s certainly more entertaining than the D.C. Madam story itself, which turned out to be nowhere near as high profile, or even high class (her call girls were paid $250 an hour, which makes them seem like street walkers compared to Eliot Spitzer’s hooker) as it initially seemed. It turned out these prostitutes actually serviced clients who were more likely to be suburban lawyers than Washington powerbrokers. One of them testified she contracted herpes on the job. It wasn’t glamorous or scandalous, in the end. It’s just finally an end.

Palfrey remains free pending her July 24 sentencing.