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D.C. Madam's Attorney Says Call Log Bombshell Could Upend 2016 Race
US News ^ | March 28, 2016 | Steven Nelson

Posted on 03/31/2016 5:12:09 AM PDT by VitacoreVision

A lawyer who represented the so-called “D.C. madam” says he has phone records that could influence the outcome of the presidential election, and he’s threatening to release one or more names on the steps of the U.S. Supreme Court if he’s denied a hearing on his right to distribute them.

Montgomery Blair Sibley, the late madam Deborah Palfrey’s colorful attorney, has been subject to a restraining order since 2007 barring him from releasing the information, which he says includes 815 names, addresses and Social Security numbers of Verizon Wireless customers.

“Time is of the essence because people are casting votes in primaries and caucuses,” he says. “I believe this information is relevant to that political discourse.”

Sibley first said the records could be relevant to the presidential race in January, when there were 15 high-profile candidates. Now, just three Republicans and two Democrats remain – though Sibley won’t say if any are implicated, citing fear of being jailed for contempt.

He would not say if he was surprised by a National Enquirer report last week that alleged Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, had engaged in five extramarital affairs. Cruz, currently in second place in the GOP contest, vigorously denied the report on Friday, and in doing so uncapped mainstream media coverage.

Cruz was first elected to the Senate in 2012 but represented Texas several times during Supreme Court arguments while Palfrey’s escort business operated.

Most of the other presidential candidates also lived in or visited the nation’s capital while Palfrey’s business operated, including former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont and Ohio Gov. John Kasich – a former congressman. Billionaire GOP front-runner Donald Trump likely visited the region during the decade-long time period.

Complicating Sibley’s bid to release one or more name from the records is that he’s been having trouble getting a court to give him a hearing.

In February, he filed a complaint of judicial misconduct against Richard Roberts, chief judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, for instructing a clerk not to file his request for a hearing on modifying the restraining order. (Roberts resigned earlier this month on the day a woman filed a lawsuit claiming he sexually assaulted her while she was a 16-year-old witness in a case he prosecuted three decades ago. Roberts said the sex was consensual.)

About two weeks ago, Sibley asked the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit to order the clerk to accept his filing and, feeling a sense of urgency and lacking a response, hand-delivered an appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday.

“The footnote to the pleading I filed today says this: If I do not get the right to file my request to modify the restraining order and if I do not get an expedited hearing, I’m going to publicly release those records and see what happens,” he says. “If they want to hold me in contempt of court for violating an order they will not give me a hearing on, I think they lose the right to enforce that order.”

By not promptly scheduling a hearing, he says, courts “are letting people vote blindly.”

Palfrey became nationally famous following her 2006 arrest and was found dead with a nylon rope around her neck in her mother’s shed in 2008. Before her apparent suicide, Sen. David Vitter, R-La., and the then-leader of the U.S. Agency for International Development were outed as her clients.

Their names came from a set of call records that revealed Vitter – who remains a sitting senator – spoke on the phone with Palfrey during congressional votes. The large batch contained about 10,000 numbers released by Sibley and Palfrey in 2007.

The records had carelessly been left in Palfrey’s basement, Sibley recalls.

“When the Keystone Kop police came in to seize everything [from Palfrey’s house] they walked by these boxes saying Pamela Martin Associates telephone records, 1996-2006, and they just left them there,” Sibley says. “So I got my hands on them and released a portion of them.”

But about a third of the records were not released, he says.

“We held back these 5,000,” Sibley says. “I wanted to have something to negotiate with or surprise people at trial.”

Before trial, U.S. District Judge Gladys Kessler authorized subpoenas for cellphone companies requesting personal information. Verizon Wireless returned a list containing the names, addresses and Social Security numbers of about 815 people, Sibley says – a sizable subset of the 5,000 numbers not initially released.

Other companies did not respond before a different federal judge, James Robertson, quashed the phone company subpoenas two months later. Palfrey was convicted of money laundering and other charges two weeks before her death.

Sibley is known for being a high-energy attorney with an eccentric client list, including Larry Sinclair, who despite his lengthy rap sheet for forgery and other crimes gained significant attention claiming he had sexual relations with President Barack Obama. Sibley’s ability to practice law was suspended for three years in Florida in 2008 for filing “vexatious and meritless” lawsuits against judges and for a child support payment dispute. He faced reciprocal discipline in D.C.

Sibley is not yet giving judges a deadline to allow for the release of information before he does so unilaterally. "Their delay, in hindsight, will seem like they’re favoring one person over another,” he says.


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: District of Columbia; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: 2016election; alreadyposted; dcmadam; deborahpalfrey; districtofcolumbia; election2016; montgomerybsibley; prostitution; scandals; tedcruz; texas
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To: Sooth2222
Cruz was in Texas...

Cruz spent a lot of time in DC in the early 2000s when he was working for the Bush Administration.

21 posted on 03/31/2016 5:40:52 AM PDT by Fresh Wind (Falcon 105)
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To: mkjessup
Very cool. My ancestor at Wilson's creek was in the 1st AR Calvary, and took a musket ball to to the shoulder on 10 Aug 1861. Mortally wounded, he went back to his farm in northern Arkansas and lingered until 7 Sep 1861 and died of infection.

Was very fortunate to get a heck of a lot of detail from his widow's pension application.

Wilson's Creek was (is) a very under-appreciated battle as far as it's historical importance.

22 posted on 03/31/2016 5:44:52 AM PDT by catfish1957 (I display the Confederate Battle Flag with pride in honor of my brave ancestors who fought w/ valor)
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To: catfish1957

That’s a long time to suffer. Belated condolences for sure.

Our family originally came from Santa Fe Missouri, haven’t located any historical war data yet but working on it.

That’s a fine legacy you have FRiend. Kudos to you.


23 posted on 03/31/2016 5:54:08 AM PDT by mkjessup (We Don't Know. Where Heidi Went. But She Won't Be Married. To The President. Burma Shave)
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To: Greetings_Puny_Humans

Not unreasonable at all. There is nothing new under the sun. While our founders tried to set up a system that limits the damage sinful man can inflict, there isn’t a system of governance in the world that can triumph over our sin nature. And those who crave power and control are drawn to roles in government.


24 posted on 03/31/2016 5:58:27 AM PDT by NorthstarMom (God says debt is a curse and children are a blessing, yet we apply for loans and prevent pregnancy.)
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To: Baldwin77

My thoughts exactly.


25 posted on 03/31/2016 5:58:31 AM PDT by RC one
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To: Greetings_Puny_Humans

My guess is it has to do with this...

http://911disclosure.blogspot.com/2011/04/donald-trump-jeffrey-epstein-and.html


26 posted on 03/31/2016 6:01:42 AM PDT by Beagle8U
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To: allendale

He’s already apparently been disbarred.


27 posted on 03/31/2016 6:03:40 AM PDT by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: mkjessup
A pox on all their houses.

Seconded!

28 posted on 03/31/2016 6:04:35 AM PDT by pgkdan (The Silent Majority Stands With TRUMP!)
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To: pepsionice

“Well....it can’t be Hillary or Bernie.”

Why not?


29 posted on 03/31/2016 6:06:53 AM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (GOPe - Enriching the consultant class while selling out their constituents.)
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To: EQAndyBuzz

Neither Bernie or Hillary have to pay for it....all they’d have to do is walk into some bar and ask for volunteers and a dozen folks would stand up to offer the keys to their hotel room.


30 posted on 03/31/2016 6:10:52 AM PDT by pepsionice
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To: VitacoreVision

To the lawyer: Don’t play coy games. If you’ve got something, put it out there so voters can be fully informed.


31 posted on 03/31/2016 6:13:38 AM PDT by Paine in the Neck (Socialism consumes EVERYTHING)
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To: Paine in the Neck

He has a gag order. He’s been fighting to have it removed, but judges have been ignoring it. The last one he had, the judge he accused of making his case disappear, was arrested for sexual assault recently.


32 posted on 03/31/2016 6:21:03 AM PDT by Greetings_Puny_Humans (I mostly come out at night... mostly.)
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To: VitacoreVision

Be wants to make money by pimping his dead client?


33 posted on 03/31/2016 6:53:19 AM PDT by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
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To: VitacoreVision

Wow! 3 days posted. The second thread on FR right now. You Trumpistas must get a thrill out of smut gossip.


34 posted on 03/31/2016 6:55:20 AM PDT by outinyellowdogcountry
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To: Fresh Wind
"He served as Solicitor General of Texas, from 2003 to 2008, appointed by Texas Attorney General, Greg Abbott. He was the first Hispanic, and the longest-serving, Solicitor General in Texas history. From 2004 to 2009, Cruz was also an adjunct professor at the University of Texas School of Law in Austin, where he taught U.S. Supreme Court litigation."

Cruz must have been busy. I don't know how he would have had time for hookers in DC. But is he stupid enough to tell a DC madame his real name? (I'd tell them my name was "William Jefferson Clinton" and oh, and my hotel room was booked under another name for "security purposes".)

If Cruz is stupid enough to have given his real name, he's too stupid to become President. He may or may not have had some number of extramarital affairs.

I really think this disbarred lawyer is just a bona fide nut case.

35 posted on 03/31/2016 7:26:11 AM PDT by Sooth2222 ("Every nation has the government it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
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To: Sooth2222
I really think this disbarred lawyer is just a bona fide nut case.

Yeah, that's certainly possible. But just in case, I will stock up on popcorn!

36 posted on 03/31/2016 7:30:04 AM PDT by Fresh Wind (Falcon 105)
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To: Sooth2222

Why has no one posted the Gay parties and Mistresses Rubio is supposed to have had? Did MSM drop the ball or just cover up hoping the Pro Amnesty guy would win.

What about the Hildabeast gay lovers?


37 posted on 03/31/2016 7:47:18 AM PDT by GailA (any politician that won't keep his word to Veterans/Military won't keep them to You!)
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To: VitacoreVision

But cities can post pictures of Johns and hookers on billboards. Just release the list and be done with it.


38 posted on 03/31/2016 7:58:29 AM PDT by rfreedom4u (Islam is a cult of hatred and sexual deviants.)
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To: outinyellowdogcountry

they think it’s Cruz, but it also includes DT. LOL


39 posted on 03/31/2016 8:07:28 AM PDT by huldah1776 ( Vote Pro-life! Allow God to bless America before He avenges the death of the innocent.)
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To: mkjessup
That’s a fine legacy you have FRiend. Kudos to you

Thanks.... In my retirement I teach genealogy classes as a volunteer. Let me know if you need any help on research.

The file on the other ancestor at Shiloh was even more interesting. The Widow's Pension file had a fellow soldier's accounts of him falling 100 feet to the east of where Gen, Johnston died. Before too long, I want to make to the battle field, and find that approximate spot.

40 posted on 03/31/2016 8:33:30 AM PDT by catfish1957 (I display the Confederate Battle Flag with pride in honor of my brave ancestors who fought w/ valor)
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