The Colorful Case of A Well-Named Lawyer

BPP ran an escort service in Fort Lauderdale a few years back. He got busted and deported (he's Dutch), then sued his clients for having sex with his employees. Sibley was his attorney.

It was the same tactic Sibley is using now to advise Palfrey: The manager of BPP's escort service was merely providing "quality time with a quality woman," Sibley told MSNBC's Tucker Carlson in an on-camera interview in March 2006. Customers had to sign a receipt saying they wouldn't engage in illegal sexual activity. If they did, then they broke the law.

Sibley sued them for breach of contract.

Let's go to the videotape:

Carlson: "You sound like you look down on these men. That they would somehow get the idea that just because you call an escort service . . . and have a girl in a tube top and a vinyl skirt come over to your hotel room -- that somehow they got the idea sex was involved. You sound like you're unimpressed with their judgment."

Sibley: "Well, Tucker, is that what the girls look like that come to your hotel room?"

Carlson: "I don't have girls come to my hotel room who I'm not married to."

This is great television, but it's not quite what we were hoping for.

We dial Sibley on his cellphone. He answers in South Florida.

We ask him to clarify the office situation.

"Do you know how expensive office space is on K Street?" he asks. "I have a small room for meeting people, but I have a virtual office. I have an 80-gigabyte drive, I plug in at Kinko's, on laptops, on friends' computers."

One of those friends is Hector Botero, a longtime friend and president of an international media company in Miami.