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The DC Madam’s attorney threatened Friday to release the government and a business names of her clients by the middle of next week unless federal courts grant a hearing on his request to release at least one customer name he describes as vital to the 2016 presidential race.
Montgomery Blair Sibley, former attorney to the late Deborah Jeane Palfrey when she was notorious as “The DC Madam” during her federal prosecution nearly a decade ago, said he will fight the U.S. Supreme Court’s rejection this week of his case without a hearing.
“I’m going to release a list of the agencies,” he told InfoWars broadcast host David Knight, “not specific names” of customers, who remain suppressed under the still-pending order in May 2007 by Palfrey’s trial judge in Washington, DC. Sibley said his First Amendment rights are being violated when the courts will not even allow a hearing about why the public interest is no longer being served by suppressing the names of high officials who used Palfrey’s prostitution service.
The broadcast show generated other hard-hitting accusations and revelations in a week that saw the National Enquirer publish a front-page story suggesting that Sibley’s revelations would point to GOP presidential candidate Ted Cruz, among others, as a customer of Palfrey’s high-end “escort” service Pamela Martin & Associates.
This week’s Enquirer story follows one March 23 headlined Shocking Claims: Pervy Ted Cruz Caught Cheating — With 5 Secret Mistresses! It allegedg that Cruz had had affairs with “A Hooker, A Teacher & Coworkers.” The tabloid did not identify the women, whose faces were pixelated. But three of them allegedly involved (according to crowd-sourced amateur investigators trying to match photos) have denied the article’s veracity.
Cruz, challenging Donald Trump for the lead in the GOP race and the author of a campaign autobiography A Time For Truth portraying his commitment to family values, other righteousness, and conservatism, denied on Fox News earlier in the week the National Enquirer’s allegations. Cruz vehemently denied the allegations April 4 on Fox News to host Megyn Kelly, saying he had not committed adultery.
Skeptics immediately noted that Cruz, who was married in 2001, could have been engaging in lawyer-like word games. Palfrey operated her service from the mid-1990s until at least 2006 before she was federally indicted and sentenced to 55 years in prison. She died in 2008 under mysterious circumstances ruled a suicide by hanging before beginning her sentence.
Silbley, Knight and investigative reporter Wayne Madsen each alleged that prostitution-related scandal and blackmail are pervasive among high government officials. Madsen named some of the most famous names in politics for the first time on the show. So, the commentators said, the public has an urgent need to know the names before this year’s elections.
For the first time, Sibley revealed how he obtained possession of the names related to 815 phone records previously withheld from those researchers like Madsen, who has long reported that the secret to the scandal is that Palfrey had close ties to the Central Intelligence Agency.
“We know the agencies have this information on the politicians,” said the host Knight. “We [in the public] need to know.”