Posted on 04/06/2016 12:12:31 PM PDT by VitacoreVision
The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday denied a request from a lawyer who once represented a woman known as the "DC Madam" to release records from her famous escort service.
Those records include such sensitive information as customer names, Social Security numbers and addresses— information the lawyer, Montgomery Blair Sibley, has said could affect the 2016 presidential election. The so-called DC Madam Deborah Jeane Palfrey ran a high-priced escort service in the Washington D.C.-area for a number of years before her eventual conviction. She died in 2008.
Sibley wanted the Supreme Court to lift a lower court order, in place since 2007, that bars him from releasing any information about her records.
"Time is of the essence," Sibley wrote in his latest Supreme Court filing. "Given the significance of the upcoming political primaries and caucuses, in the looming Republican and Democratic conventions on July 18th and July 25th respectively, and given the impact of the presently sealed from the public record that this attorney seeks to release, upon those electoral deliberations, expedited resolution to this application is incumbent upon this court."
His application was directed to Chief Justice John Roberts, the justice assigned to emergency appeals from the Washington, D.C. area. Roberts denied it without seeking a response from any other party, a sign of how little merit Roberts found in the application.
IIRC the judge who issued the order resigned in disgrace, having been ensnared by a sexual crime...like prostitution.
But he is also ambitious and smart.
Did I mention that he is Canadian.
According to that anthology of the compiled knowledge of the universe, aka Wikipedia in their article on Deborah Jeane Palfrey, aka The DC Madam, those records have already been released.
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On July 9, 2007, Palfrey released the supposed entirety of her phone records for public viewing and downloading on the Internet in TIFF format, though days prior to this, her civil attorney Montgomery Blair Sibley had dispatched 54 CD-ROM copies to researchers, activists, and journalists. Senator David Vitter (R-LA) acknowledged on the night of July 9 that he had been a customer of her escort service.
So maybe someone should go find either the .tiff or one of those CD-roms. Seems that once something hits the internet it never disappears, and 54 cd-roms must of certainty have become pregnant and birthed multiple children over the years. Shouldn't be too difficult to make one or the other float to the top of the pond. Especially since FR researchers can find xeroxed articles produced with MS Word and faxed from Kinko's..
That would certainly disspell or verify any current rumors, wouldn't it?
Unless of course verification of either case is not the prime objective.
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