Nope, brothels are illegal in DC. There used to be loads of street walkers, but not so many as the city has gentrified, cleaned-up, and crime rates in general have gone down.

I was referring to the practice of political lobbying and revolving doors, not literal prostitution.

For example:

https://www.opensecrets.org/revolving/rev_summary.php?id=787...

I think the key word there was "public."

OP means Original Poster, or the person who started the thread/posted the article. Do you mean GP (duncan_bayne)?

Yes. Thanks for the vocab word.