Former lawyer for the 'DC Madam' wants to release her black book containing details of more than 800 clients - and claims it could impact the Presidential election
- Montgomery Blair Sibley represented Deborah Jeane Palfrey in 2008
- She was convicted of federal racketeering and prostitution charges
- The scandal of her arrest rocked the nation and outed DC power players
- Politicians, including Senator David Vitter, admitted they were on the list
- Palfrey hanged herself in 2008 and the book was sealed by a judge
- But Sibley believes the book could contain: 'Information relevant to the upcoming presidential election'
The 'DC Madam's' former lawyer wants to release her black book of clients - and claims it could have an impact on the Presidential race.
Montgomery Blair Sibley represented Deborah Jeane Palfrey in 2008 when she was convicted of federal racketeering and various prostitution charges.
The scandal of her arrest rocked the nation's capital as some of the city's biggest power players, including father-of-four Senator David Vitter, were outed.
Palfrey hanged herself in 2008 before she was set to be sentenced for her crimes and left the book containing details of her 815 clients behind.
Montgomery Blair Sibley (left), the former lawyer for the DC Madam Deborah Jeane Palfrey (center), wants to release her black book of clients because the records 'may contain information relevant to the upcoming presidential election'. The pair are pictured at the Federal Court House in April 2007 during her trial
The information inside the book was sealed by a judge, but Sibley has filed a motion in a bid to have it released.
He's filed a judicial conduct complaint to lift his gag order so he can release the names from Palfrey's records.
Sibley says those records 'may contain information relevant to the upcoming presidential election', FOX 5 reported.
He told Daily Mail Online he could not comment on the contents of the book because of the court order.
The attorney has hit headlines in the past. He filed a failed lawsuit claiming Barack Obama isn't a natural-born citizen and also ran for president in 2012 as a write-in candidate
News of Palfrey's death in 2008 followed reports she handed a list of telephone numbers of 15,000 clients to a U.S. television network
She had vowed to identify as many well-known figures as possible to subpoena them as defense witnesses.
Palfrey had insisted her company, Pamela Martin and Associates, was a legal enterprise that provided 'high-end' clients with nude dancing and massage, but not sex and initially considered selling her phone records in order to raise money for her defense.
When she later released her phone records for free, they ended up shedding little further light on her clientele.
Sibley filed a judicial conduct complaint to lift his gag order so he can release the 815 names from Palfrey's records. He is known for filing a lawsuit claiming Barack Obama isn't a natural-born citizen
In what could be the biggest sex scandal in the U.S. capital for more than a decade, Ms Palfrey caused the resignation of married 65-year-old Randall Tobias, a deputy to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.
The list also thrust another official, Pentagon adviser Harlan Ullman, into the heart of the scandal.
However Senator David Vitter was one of the biggest victims. He admitted to being on Palfrey's 'list' and was forced into a grovelling apology.
He suffered months of attack ads and recently addressed the scandal in a campaign video.
The 30-second commercial released in November shows Vitter sitting at a kitchen table as he talks to the camera, saying: 'Fifteen years ago, I failed my family but found forgiveness and love.'
'I learned that our falls aren't what define us but rather how we get up, accept responsibility and earn redemption,' Vitter says, as the ad next shows him eating dinner with his family.
However, Vitter never directly refers to his involvement in a prostitution ring in Washington D.C., which was discovered in 2007 - seven years after he began using the service, according to his own words.
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