Lawyer for Alleged DC Madam Targets Gonzales in Seventh Dismissal Motion
The lawyer for alleged D.C. madam Deborah Jeane Palfrey claims in a new legal pleading that the charges against his client were brought to bolster the political agenda of former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales.
But the proof was less sensational than the charge, Dana Milbank reports in his Washington Sketch column for the Washington Post. Defense lawyer Montgomery Blair Sibley offered to back up his claim with little more than an anonymous blog posting, a Legal Times article and a Justice Department spreadsheet.
The filing is one of seven motions to dismiss the charges filed by the industrious lawyer.
“There’s something rotten at the Department of Justice,” the latest motion read. The case is tied to the “spectacular series of resignations from the Justice Department” and the purge of nine U.S. attorneys, he asserted.
Sibley told a judge yesterday that he would expand on his claims, but to do so, “I would have to say things that would violate this court’s restraining order against me.”
