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03-29-2016, 08:19 PM
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D.C. Madam's Attorney Says Call Log Bombshell Could Upend 2016 Race
http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2016-03-28/dc-madams-attorney-says-call-log-bombshell-could-upend-presidential-race
http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/274512-former-attorney-asks-supreme-court-to-allow-release-of-dc-madam
Ex-attorney asks Supreme Court for release of 'DC Madam' records
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 (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/03/AR2007050302233.html), 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 (http://wtop.com/presidential-election/2016/02/former-lawyer-d-c-madam-records-could-affect-presidential-election/) 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 (http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2016-03-25/ted-cruz-sex-scandal-story-just-the-latest-bombshell-in-a-bizarre-campaign) the report on Friday, and in doing so uncapped mainstream media coverage.
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 (https://www.scribd.com/doc/306290306/Sibley-Denied-on-Palfrey-Records) a clerk not to file his request for a hearing on modifying the restraining order.
(Roberts resigned (http://www.nationallawjournal.com/id=1202752406886/DC-Federal-Chief-Judge-Retires-Amid-Sexual-Abuse-Allegations) 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.”
DC Madam Deborah Palfrey
http://www.theipinionsjournal.com/uploaded_images/dcmadam-774609.jpg
D.C. Madam's Attorney Says Call Log Bombshell Could Upend 2016 Race
http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2016-03-28/dc-madams-attorney-says-call-log-bombshell-could-upend-presidential-race
http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/274512-former-attorney-asks-supreme-court-to-allow-release-of-dc-madam
Ex-attorney asks Supreme Court for release of 'DC Madam' records
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 (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/03/AR2007050302233.html), 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 (http://wtop.com/presidential-election/2016/02/former-lawyer-d-c-madam-records-could-affect-presidential-election/) 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 (http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2016-03-25/ted-cruz-sex-scandal-story-just-the-latest-bombshell-in-a-bizarre-campaign) the report on Friday, and in doing so uncapped mainstream media coverage.
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 (https://www.scribd.com/doc/306290306/Sibley-Denied-on-Palfrey-Records) a clerk not to file his request for a hearing on modifying the restraining order.
(Roberts resigned (http://www.nationallawjournal.com/id=1202752406886/DC-Federal-Chief-Judge-Retires-Amid-Sexual-Abuse-Allegations) 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.”
DC Madam Deborah Palfrey
http://www.theipinionsjournal.com/uploaded_images/dcmadam-774609.jpg