The Strauss Kahn Frame-Up: The Amerikan Police State Strides Forward

[Flur]

Wait.. so the media lies about everything.. everything is twisted for some other purpose, but yet when it comes to this story, we're to believe it's all legitimate?  Right.

[Freeski]

Wait.. so the media lies about everything.. everything is twisted for some other purpose, but yet when it comes to this story, we're to believe it's all legitimate?  Right.

Excellent point!

Listening to Jonathan Kay, the supposed expert from the National Post who embedded himself with the "conspiracy theorist community" for some period of time claims they don't watch or read the mainstream news, but that all of their info comes from the Internet.

Two things wrong there: first, he paints a rather broad brush -- I mean there are those who may have woken up to 9/11 but still have no idea about the bigger picture, and those who study truly mind-blowing topics like politics, the law, deception, propaganda and corporatism -- so to put everyone under a single profile is naive at best. Secondly, can anyone name one single mainstream media source that isn't on the Internet?

Proof that xyz happened, because it's in the Miami Herald, is weak. You need many sources: multiple unique MSM sources, random opinions from blogs, laws, whistleblower statements, books, movies, government docs, white papers, testimonies, presentations, anything and everything -- and even then you still can't be sure.

[Brocke]

Burn the Strauss Kahn witch!

Wait.. so the media lies about everything.. everything is twisted for some other purpose, but yet when it comes to this story, we're to believe it's all legitimate?  Right.

YES, that is a very important point.

It really does not matter if Strauss Kahn is a degenerate or not. What matters is who they choose to replace him. We should take our cues from the MSM and realize that if we are being directed to look in a certain direction that there is a very good chance that there is something more important going on somewhere else.







The Strauss Kahn Frame-Up: The Amerikan Police State Strides Forward

by Paul Craig Roberts
Global Research, May 18, 2011

The International Monetary Fund’s director, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, was arrested last Sunday in New York City on the allegation of an immigrant hotel maid that he attempted to rape her in his hotel room. A New York judge has denied Strauss-Kahn bail on the grounds that he might flee to France.

President Bill Clinton survived his sexual escapades, because he was a servant to the system, not a threat. But Strauss-Kahn, like former New York Governor Eliot Spitzer, was a threat to the system, and, like Eliot Spitzer, Strass-Kahn has been deleted from the power ranks.

Strauss-Kahn was the first IMF director in my lifetime, if memory serves, who disavowed the traditional IMF policy of imposing on the poor and ordinary people the cost of bailing out Wall Street and the Western banks. Strauss-Kahn said that regulation had to be reimposed on the greed-driven, fraud-prone financial sector, which, unregulated, destroyed the lives of ordinary people. Strauss-Kahn listened to Nobel economist Joseph Stiglitz, one of a handful of economists who has a social conscience.

Perhaps the most dangerous black mark in Strauss-Kahn’s book is that he was far ahead of America’s French puppet, President Sarkozy, in the upcoming French elections. Strauss-Kahn simply had to be eliminated.

It is possible that Strauss-Kahn eliminated himself and saved Washington the trouble. However, as a well-travelled person who has often stayed in New York hotels and in hotels in cities around the world, I have never experienced a maid entering unannounced into my room, much less when I was in the shower.

In the spun story, Strauss-Kahn is portrayed as so deprived of sex that he attempted to rape a hotel maid. Anyone who ever served on the staff of a powerful public figure knows that this is unlikely. On a senator’s staff on which I served, there were two aides whose job was to make certain that no woman, with the exception of his wife, was ever alone with the senator. This was done to protect the senator both from female power groupies, who lust after celebrities and powerful men, and from women sent by a rival on missions to compromise an opponent. A powerful man such as Strauss-Kahn would not have been starved for women, and as a multi-millionaire he could certainly afford to make his own discreet arrangements.

As Henry Kissinger said, “power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.” In politics, sex is handed out as favors and payoffs, and it is used as a honey trap. Some Americans will remember that Senator Packwood’s long career (1969-1995) was destroyed by a female lobbyist, suspected, according to rumors, of sexual conquests of Senators, who charged that Packwood propositioned her in his office. Perhaps what inspired the charge was that Packwood was in the way of her employer’s legislative agenda.

Even those who exercise care can be framed by allegations of an event to which there are no witnesses. On May 16 the British Daily Mail reported that prior to Strauss-Kahn’s fateful departure for New York, the French newspaper, Liberation, published comments he made while discussing his plans to challenge Sarkozy for the presidency of France. Strauss-Kahn said that as he was the clear favorite to beat Sarkozy, he would be subjected to a smear campaign by Sarkozy and his interior minister, Glaude Gueant. Strauss-Kahn predicted that a woman would be offered between 500,000 and 1,000,000 euros (more than $1,000,000) to make up a story that he raped her. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1387625/IMF-chief-Dominique-Strauss-Kahn-feared-political-enemy-pay-woman-allege-rape.html

read more: http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=24840

[Overcast]

Wait.. so the media lies about everything.. everything is twisted for some other purpose, but yet when it comes to this story, we're to believe it's all legitimate?  Right.

Not at all.

90% of the problem of "today" is that truth doesn't seem to matter anymore.

[Freeski]

Not at all.

90% of the problem of "today" is that truth doesn't seem to matter anymore.

Good point dude.

[Krateros]

I am not sure if anyone has posted this yet, but the plot has reportedly thickened:

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/imf_accuser_in_apt_for_hiv_vics_oZmUkbtouJ14RHw1434HvJ

[bigron]

Source: Ex-IMF chief Strauss-Kahn will plead not guilty at arraignment


By the CNN Wire StaffJune 6, 2011 -- Updated 0940 GMT (1740 HKT)

Former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn is accused of attacking a maid at a New York hotel last month

MORE

http://edition.cnn.com/2011/CRIME/06/06/new.york.imf.case/index.html

[Brocke]

Totally staged. If this were a genuine support rally or protest the NYPD would have knocked them down, cracked skulls, tased their asses, then arrested them for conspiracy to create a disturbance.


Maids rally at ex-IMF head's court hearing

6 June 2011 Last updated at 18:41 GMT Help

VIDEO

The former head of the International Monetary Fund, Dominique Strauss-Khan, has entered a plea of not guilty in a New York court to charges of attempted rape and sexual assault.

The 62-year-old Frenchman is accused of assaulting a maid at the Manhattan hotel where he was staying on 14 May.

Outside the court, around 50 hotel workers, many wearing their uniforms, rallied to show their support for the alleged victim. They called for extra protection to be provided for chambermaids to ensure their safety in the workplace.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-13675573

[chris jones]

  IF'S, is this guy a pervert, did he attemtp to rape this gal, is the IMF behind this?
  Could be true on both counts..
  One point, the cops went balllls to the walllls on this one, as if forwarned.

[Brocke]

  IF'S, is this guy a pervert, did he attemtp to rape this gal, is the IMF behind this?
  Could be true on both counts..
  One point, the cops went balllls to the walllls on this one, as if forwarned.

If he is a "pervert" then the powers that be have decided not to help him and have throw him to the wolves. Why?

If he was framed then he is being removed deliberately. Why?

What he did is the tabloid sensationalism that has everybody lighting their torches and dusting off their pitchforks.

What is happening to him is the real story.

[Overcast]

Anyone heard any new news about this lately?

[bigron]

Papers: Strauss-Kahn claimed to have diplomatic immunity


By Ross Levitt, CNN
June 17, 2011 8:23 a.m. EDT


http://www.cnn.com/2011/CRIME/06/16/new.york.strauss.kahn/index.html?hpt=wo_c2

[chris jones]

  Typical, no details on the victim, up in smoke.....

[bigron]

June 20, 2011
http://counterpunch.com/martens06202011.html

Concerns Grow on Legal Trajectory of DSK Case

Dershowitz Promotes Settlement for Strauss-Kahn as Hotel Housekeeper Lawyers Up

By PAM MARTENS

To women working in the shadows around the world, she embodies the spirits of Anita Hill, Norma Rae and Rosa Parks.  She has done for hotel room attendants what the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire of 1911 did to expose sweatshop conditions for garment workers.  In summoning the courage to charge Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the powerful then-chief of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and lead aspirant to the Elysée Palace as the next President of France, with sexually assaulting her in his $3,000 a night suite at the midtown Manhattan Sofitel Hotel, the widowed 32-year old hotel housekeeper born in a mud hut in Guinea, is igniting critical global dialogues.  The topics are as diverse as French trivialization of violent sexual assault, needed legislation to provide panic alerts for hotel room attendants in danger, and the structural austerity imposed on struggling nations by the IMF as a thinly disguised economic rape.

This young woman who came to the U.S. just seven years ago has done all this without uttering a word in public.  By testifying repeatedly to law enforcement on the alleged sexual crimes committed against her by this powerful and politically connected man and agreeing to testify in a criminal trial in open court, she has put on international display her confidence that America will vindicate her belief that it cares about justice for every human being, regardless of  ethnicity or station in life.

But in recent days concerns have grown about the sudden upheaval in the housekeeper’s legal team.   The growing fear is that the next global topic for debate will be the monetization of rape in America. 

The woman about whom so much has been written in the press is ironically someone who has essentially been stripped of an identity: she has no first or last name to most of the American people; her whereabouts is unknown; she can’t resume her normal work life.  There is no evidence that her colleagues at the New York Hotel and Motel Trades Council union are able to stay in touch with her and provide her a support network.   According to the New York Times, her brothers in Guinea have been unable to reach her on her cell phone. 

Her original lawyer, Jeffrey Shapiro, and renowned civil rights lawyer, Norman Siegel, are off her case and neither will say why. Siegel, a stalwart defender of the First Amendment, was uncharacteristically sparse in his explanation by phone: “I can only say I am not representing her.”  Shapiro did not return a phone call and email request for an explanation. 

More troubling, Harvard Law professor Alan Dershowitz has embarked on a media road show to habituate the public to the idea that our Rosa Parks with a cleaning cart and an international workers’ platform is about to opt for “a big payday.”  If that were true, given her sequestered status, it is impossible for the public to know if she voluntarily reached that decision or if some unseen hand made it for her.

Dershowitz told Newsweek in an interview published on June 12 that he thinks the woman’s lawyer is already “working together” with the Strauss-Kahn attorneys. The exact quote from Dershowitz follows:

“And my sense is that the victim would like a big payday. Why does she want to make a deal now? Why not wait until the conviction, and then sue? [Because] the defendant doesn’t have much money. All the money is his wife’s money. And if you win a suit—let’s assume she wins a $10 million judgment against him. She’s not going to collect it. He’ll go bankrupt. Whereas if she settles the case, the wife pays up. So the difference is between getting, say, a million right now from the wife, or $10 million from the husband which the lawyer has to spend the rest of his life chasing. It’s in DSK’s [Dominique Strauss-Kahn] best interest to settle this case. It’s only not in Vance’s [Cyrus Vance, the New York County District Attorney prosecuting the case] interest to settle the case. You saw in the paper that the lawyer for the victim is ‘working together’ with the prosecution. Nonsense. He’s probably working together with the defense. They have a joint interest.”

Dershowitz has now appeared on Bloomberg television twice on this topic; in the pages of Newsweek and in the French publication, Le Figaro.  In each instance, he is talking up a no-trial settlement and even volunteering advice on how it can be done without landing oneself in the slammer.  When asked by the Le Figaro reporter “how to seal such an agreement without obstructing justice,”  the advice from Dershowitz is audacious:

“This is possible through a parent who does not fall under the jurisdiction of New York. The family members of DSK in Paris, for example, do not. If they try to reach an agreement directly with the New York lawyer, they can be charged with obstruction.  But they can negotiate directly with the family of the complainant outside the State of New York or Guinea. It is an extremely delicate dance to lead…[the prosecutor] cannot prevent the family from making an agreement.  All he can do is threaten to open an investigation for obstruction of justice. He can say: ‘If ever I hear of an explicit agreement or implicit exchange of money in order to buy the silence of the victim, you will go to jail.’  Then each risk up to five years in prison. But it is still difficult for the prosecutor to stop the agreement…[the woman’s lawyer] may want to see justice done, but ultimately, money is more important.  When he said he was cooperating with the prosecutor, it was just a message to the defense that said he expected an offer.”

What does it say about a society when one of its preeminent criminal law professors is casually on the stump extolling the dumping of a sexual assault case before the case has even begun in court because “money is more important.” Cyrus Vance, by the way, does not represent himself in this matter.  As New York County District Attorney, he represents the public interest.  If Vance has strong enough evidence to get a conviction, if he has evidence of serial sexual assaults on women, he has a legal and moral duty to take this predator off the streets; money and meddling by a Harvard Law professor notwithstanding. (An email to Professor Dershowitz at his Harvard email account asking if he were a paid consultant to the Strauss-Kahn team has thus far gone unanswered.)

Who is the new law firm that has emerged on the scene and refuses to say how it came to represent this union worker?

Thompson Wigdor is a New York law firm that represents the management of large multinational companies against their employees while simultaneously representing the lone employee fighting for justice against, uh, large multinational companies -- a David v. Goliath firm or Goliath v. David firm, depending on the particular day’s press release.  The split personality of the firm is even evident on the law firm’s web site.  There’s a link for all the good things they’ve done for the corporate employer; another link for championing the little guy.  It’s a migraine-producing exercise just to lightly contemplate how all those conflicts of interest might be kept at bay.  Nonetheless, there is no disputing that these are aggressive, well-credentialed lawyers who have scored big wins.

All three founding partners of the firm, Kenneth P. Thompson, Douglas H. Wigdor, and Scott Browning Gilly, cut their training teeth at Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, the law firm for Wall Street’s biggest players.  To Wall Street veterans, the name Morgan Lewis evokes the firm that battled successfully in courts around the country to allow an entire industry to force workers’ claims away from the transparency of the nation’s public courts and into an industry-run private justice system called mandatory arbitration.  It is noteworthy that only one industry, Wall Street, had that level of non transparency and only one industry, Wall Street, imploded; taking the U.S. and global economy with it.

Gilly’s name has now been dropped from the firm.  He resigned recently after U.S. District Court Judge William Pauley fined the firm $15,000 for deception in a deposition.  According to the transcript of the hearing, the client and her attorney knew she was starting a new job in two days but intentionally withheld that information in her deposition to ostensibly enhance the amount of her damages in settlement talks.

Guy Cohen of Davis and Gilbert had this to say to Judge Pauley in asking for sanctions against Thompson Wigdor:

“I don’t mean to get up on a soapbox here, your Honor, but the functioning of our judicial system counts on honesty.  It relies on honesty in depositions, honesty in document production, honesty in expert disclosures.  It relies on fundamental fairness between parties in their interactions, particularly when it regards settlement…you have a plaintiff and their lawyers who all know, who very clearly have worked together in a multifaceted bad faith attempt to provide misleading information in order to improve their settlement position…”

Gilly’s absence on the roster of attorneys at Thompson Wigdor avoids another prickly issue: he and Thompson Wigdor represented a large drug store chain as it fought a New York union in Federal District Court in New York four years ago.

The hotel housekeeper charging Strauss-Kahn with sexual assault is part of a very feisty and strong union, Hotel and Motel Trades Council, which has become the face of this battle outside the courtroom.  Photos and videos of uniformed housekeepers from this union, raising their hands in defiance outside the arraignment of Strauss-Kahn on June 6, are linked at 2,180,000 mainstream and alternative media web sites according to the Google search engine.  The housekeepers, shouting “shame on you,” were from the Pierre, Essex House, Helmsley and other rarefied digs in Manhattan. 

In 2007, Gilly, while a named partner at Thompson Wigdor, was the lead attorney for drugstore chain Rite Aid when another union, Service Employees International, (SEIU 1199) charged it in court papers with engaging in a union avoidance campaign for the drug stores it acquired from Brooks and Eckerd.
This month, the housekeeper’s new lawyer and spokesperson, Kenneth Thompson of Thompson Wigdor, appeared on French television asking for women in France and Africa who may have been sexually assaulted by Strauss-Kahn to call his firm; the firm wanted to help them.  The Telegraph of the United Kingdom quoted Mr. Thompson as follows: "My law firm champions the rights of people who are taken advantage of all over the world.  And so we take this case because we feel that no woman should be sexually assaulted anywhere." 

Compare that characterization with how Thompson opened his case on behalf of a Hollywood Video store manager in March 2004.   The man had been indicted on April 25, 2003 by the Bronx District Attorney’s office,  following the impaneling of a grand jury, on one count of rape in the first degree, one count of rape in the third  degree, one count of attempted rape in the first degree and thirteen counts of sexual abuse in the first degree against five different women who were his subordinates in his store.  Three of the women were 17; one was eighteen; one 21 and one 29.

Thompson told the lone male judge, Steven Barrett, who was hearing the case without a jury: "This is a case about a man who has been falsely accused of rape and sexual assault…This case is part of a scheme for these women to get paid. They want to line their pockets with money, even if an innocent man goes to jail. The evidence will show these women lied to the police and the grand jury. We will expose these lies because we have the video surveillance tape and telephone records, which will prove who is lying.”

The defendant was originally represented by a Legal Aid attorney.  How did a video store manager end up with a high powered attorney like Kenneth Thompson? Thompson will not answer that simple question.

Representing the company, Hollywood Video, in the matter was Michael Carlinsky, a top New York litigator whose client roster reads like the who’s who of Wall Street.  Carlinsky is currently with Quinn Emanuel but had previously spent nine years with Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP, one of the most powerful management-side Wall Street law firms in sexual abuse or discrimination cases as well as many other areas.  Like Morgan Lewis, the Orrick firm also championed the establishment of a private justice system to hear Wall Street workers’ cases. The system that materialized did not require arbitrators to follow case precedents or statutory law as required in a court setting; discovery was limited; and it was next to impossible to appeal to a court because reasoned decisions were not issued.  Egregious abuses occurred, like humiliating women in depositions by grilling them on their gynecological records and menstrual cycles. In one case, a lawyer for a Wall Street firm openly argued to the arbitrators that they should not follow the law because it was wrong.

One possible explanation for Carlinsky’s lofty representation of Hollywood Video is the fact that two major Wall Street firms, UBS Warburg and the now defunct Bear Stearns, had underwritten hundreds of millions of dollars of bonds for the video store’s parent, Hollywood Entertainment Corporation.  A sensationalized jury trial that played out for weeks could have impacted the company’s fortunes and customer base.  (The company’s fortunes turned out rather badly anyway.  The successor firm, Movie Gallery, Inc., liquidated after acknowledging $500 million to $1 billion in debt and a miniscule $10 million to $50 million in assets.) 

Carlinsky responded promptly and fully to my questions in an email:  “I was retained by the general counsel of Hollywood Video because of my trial skills and experience handling crisis-type cases. The GC [General Counsel] knew my firm, and had used my firm in prior matters.  I did not sit at the defense table during the criminal trial, but was involved in the defense strategy and in the selection of counsel for the defendant.”

The store manager was acquitted. We will never know what happened because all the records of the criminal trial are sealed, as is typical in an acquittal.    According to Thompson, “the City of New York ended up paying the store manager $500,000 to settle his malicious prosecution case that he filed against the City” following his acquittal.

But then something very odd happened.  Bragging rights were posted as follows on the Thompson Wigdor law firm’s web site in the section showing what the firm had accomplished for its corporate clients:

“Investigated and defended claims of sexual harassment and retaliation by 11 former employees of a major movie-rental chain against the company and one of its former store managers. After Thompson Wigdor LLP successfully obtained a full acquittal of the individual supervisor in a related criminal sexual assault trial, the matter was resolved for a fraction of plaintiff's previous settlement demands.”

This paragraph relates to the fact that a civil suit by 11 former female employees against the very same store manager followed the criminal suit.  The women were asking for $50 million.  The complaint included serious charges that the women had repeatedly sought relief from the corporate management but instead the corporation allowed the store manager to harass and retaliate against them because this man ran a profitable store. 

I asked Thompson in an email why even a “fraction” of $50 million would have been paid to the plaintiffs if, indeed, the store manager was an innocent man. Thompson responded as follows:

“[The store manager] was certainly an innocent man who was falsely accused of the criminal charges brought against him.  And I proved that at his criminal trial.  With respect to your question regarding the settlement of the civil case brought against Hollywood Video and [the store manager], you must speak with the lawyers for Hollywood Video about that.” 

Thompson presumably knows full well that a stringent confidentiality order is in place on the settlement with the 11 women and the attorneys are barred from speaking about the matter.

The Judge who handed down the store manager’s acquittal, Steven Barrett, came under fire in another case. A 31-year old Columbus High School Special Ed teacher was convicted of raping a 15-year old female student and was sentenced by Judge Steven Barrett to six months in jail -- to be served on weekends.

If there is to be a ubiquitous search for the soul of a nation on matters of equal justice, let it not be isolated to France.

Pam Martens worked on Wall Street for 21 years, retiring in 2006. She has been writing on public interest issues for CounterPunch since that time.  She has no security position, long or short, in any company mentioned in this article.  She can be reached at pamk741@aol.com

 
http://counterpunch.com/martens06202011.html

[Overcast]

Papers: Strauss-Kahn claimed to have diplomatic immunity


By Ross Levitt, CNN
June 17, 2011 8:23 a.m. EDT


http://www.cnn.com/2011/CRIME/06/16/new.york.strauss.kahn/index.html?hpt=wo_c2

But doesn't seem to apply here..

Strauss-Kahn told a Port Authority detective, "I have diplomatic immunity," according to a transcript in the document. But four hours later, he told a New York Police officer with the Manhattan Special Victims squad, "No, no, no, I'm not trying to use that. I just want to know if I need a lawyer."

The IMF has said that Strauss-Kahn would have been entitled to diplomatic immunity only if his alleged crime involved official fund business, which is not the case in this situation.

[chris jones]

 Poor.
       Most of us know what it is to be dirt poor. Seems like this gal does too.
Is this off subject, I don't know, but it is what hits me in the face, poor VS rich..
  Guilty or inncent, who realy knows, a setup or not, the point I want to make is there are many folks who have never experienced extreme poverty, no frig or no food to keep in it, no telly, no computer, no roof over your head...Kids screaming for food, sickly-skin and bones. It leaves its mark.  Met a woman in South America who was forced to tell her kids as she put rocks into a pot of boiling water, rocks have minerals in them- this is food.   Povery sucks, look at the poor guy working for a minimum wage to feed his family, scrounging, head down, a nervous FK wreck scared shitless of making an error and loosing his job, the unemployed, the mother of a soldier fighting in Iraq, deciding wether to buy her medicine or some food. WE are floating on counterfit money, they own the printing press.
  They stole our FK money,, the Silent Majority haven't felt it yet, but they will..poverty SUKKKKS ZIP...At least this gal got a buck, good luck to her. The wars haven't woken up the SM's, $$ BUT money will...........

[Protean]

Webster Tarpley was talking about The Strauss Kahn Frame-Up this weekend on World Crisis Radio; Wall Street/City of London has installed their new puppet taking over for Strauss Kahn to help bring down the Euro and make the Dollar look better.

[Brocke]

France’s Lagarde named IMF head


Christine Lagarde


23:04 28/06/2011
MOSCOW, June 28 (RIA Novosti)

France's Christine Lagarde was named on Tuesday the first woman head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF).

Lagarde, 55, had earlier received the backing of both the U.S. and Russia over rival candidate Agustin Carstens of Mexico.

Lagarde has been the French minister of finance since June 2007.

The post became vacant after the May 18 resignation of Dominique Strauss-Kahn, who was earlier arrested in New York on charges of sexual assault.

"The results are in: I am honoured and delighted that the board has entrusted me with the position of MD of the IMF!" Lagarde said via Twitter.

"The executive board of the International Monetary Fund today selected Christine Lagarde to serve as IMF managing director and madame chairman of the executive board for a five-year term starting on July 5, 2011,” the IMF said.

http://en.rian.ru/world/20110628/164896952.html

[Jackson Holly]

 WOW!

Strauss-Kahn Case Seen as in Jeopardy

By JIM DWYER, WILLIAM K. RASHBAUM and JOHN ELIGON
Published: June 30, 2011

EXCERPTS:

Dominique Strauss-Kahn could be released on his own recognizance, and freed from house arrest.

The sexual assault case against Dominique Strauss-Kahn is on the verge of collapse as investigators have uncovered major holes in the credibility of the housekeeper who charged that he attacked her in his Manhattan hotel suite in May, according to two well-placed law enforcement officials.

Although forensic tests found unambiguous evidence of a sexual encounter between Mr. Strauss-Kahn, a French politician, and the woman, prosecutors now do not believe much of what the accuser has told them about the circumstances or about herself.

~~~~~~

Indeed, Mr. Strauss-Kahn could be released on his own recognizance, and freed from house arrest, reflecting the likelihood that the serious charges against him will not be sustained. The district attorney’s office may try to require Mr. Strauss-Kahn to plead guilty to a misdemeanor, but his lawyers are likely to contest such a move.


MORE~>  http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/01/nyregion/strauss-kahn-case-seen-as-in-jeopardy.html?_r=1&hp

[Optimus]

sexual assault repeatedly lied: sources

By LARRY CELONA and LAURA ITALIANO

With AP
Last Updated: 9:26 AM, July 1, 2011
Posted: 12:25 AM, July 1, 2011

The maid who accused former IMF boss Dominique Strauss-Kahn of a violent sex attack in his Midtown hotel room has repeatedly lied to prosecutors and is "personally associated" with money launderers and drug dealers — revelations that have sunk the prosecution’s case, sources told The Post last night.

"She’s a con artist," one law enforcement source said, adding that prosecutors have concluded "she cannot be put on the stand.

"She’d be a flawed witness."

The alleged victim, a chambermaid at the Sofitel Hotel, "continuously lied to us," a law-enforcement source told The Post.

Read more: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/sources_assault_case_against_apart_9p7wWKT0k7qa8X2Qwt8lZI#ixzz1QrVgAHnj

[Kilika]

  Here we go! Should have known. Looks like this guy is going to walk.

[Brocke]

sexual assault repeatedly lied: sources

By LARRY CELONA and LAURA ITALIANO

With AP
Last Updated: 9:26 AM, July 1, 2011
Posted: 12:25 AM, July 1, 2011

The maid who accused former IMF boss Dominique Strauss-Kahn of a violent sex attack in his Midtown hotel room has repeatedly lied to prosecutors and is "personally associated" with money launderers and drug dealers — revelations that have sunk the prosecution’s case, sources told The Post last night.

"She’s a con artist," one law enforcement source said, adding that prosecutors have concluded "she cannot be put on the stand.

"She’d be a flawed witness."

The alleged victim, a chambermaid at the Sofitel Hotel, "continuously lied to us," a law-enforcement source told The Post.

Read more: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/sources_assault_case_against_apart_9p7wWKT0k7qa8X2Qwt8lZI#ixzz1QrVgAHnj

They have their new IMF head, Lagarde.  Strauss-Kahn will be free, with a slightly tarnished reputation, now they have replaced him. That was all they wanted. Slap him on the wrist and put a new, more compliant puppet in his place.

As I said before, it's not what he did that is the story. It's what is happening to him that is the real story.

[InsideJob]

There is a book from the 70s called Sexpionage. http://www.amazon.com/Sexpionage-exploitation-sex-Soviet-intelligence/dp/0151813809/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1309570555&sr=1-1e

It explains the hotel room setup methodology (specifically discusses cleaning women) and it is scary how closely it resembles what happened to Strauss Kahn.

[Optimus]

French journalist filing new rape charges against Dominique Strauss-Kahn

By Agence France-Presse
Monday, July 4th, 2011 -- 11:37 am



PARIS — A French woman will bring legal action this week for attempted rape against former IMF head Dominique Strauss-Kahn, her lawyer said Monday in an interview published online.

Tristane Banon, a journalist and writer, "is lodging a complaint for attempted rape against Mr Dominique Strauss-Kahn", the lawyer, David Koubbi, was quoted as saying by news magazine L'Express on its website.

"I will send the complaint tomorrow, Tuesday July 5, to the prosecutor, who will receive it on Wednesday morning."

The announcement came as Strauss-Kahn gained high hopes of being cleared in another sex assault case, which saw him arrested and charged with trying to rape a New York hotel maid and cost him his job as head of the IMF.

Banon, 32, has alleged that Strauss-Kahn invited her to an apartment in 2003 promising to give her an interview, and instead pounced on her like "a rutting chimpanzee".

More: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/07/04/french-journalist-filing-new-rape-charges-against-dominique-strauss-kahn/

[Brocke]

French journalist filing new rape charges against Dominique Strauss-Kahn

By Agence France-Presse
Monday, July 4th, 2011 -- 11:37 am



PARIS — A French woman will bring legal action this week for attempted rape against former IMF head Dominique Strauss-Kahn, her lawyer said Monday in an interview published online.

Tristane Banon, a journalist and writer, "is lodging a complaint for attempted rape against Mr Dominique Strauss-Kahn", the lawyer, David Koubbi, was quoted as saying by news magazine L'Express on its website.

"I will send the complaint tomorrow, Tuesday July 5, to the prosecutor, who will receive it on Wednesday morning."

The announcement came as Strauss-Kahn gained high hopes of being cleared in another sex assault case, which saw him arrested and charged with trying to rape a New York hotel maid and cost him his job as head of the IMF.

Banon, 32, has alleged that Strauss-Kahn invited her to an apartment in 2003 promising to give her an interview, and instead pounced on her like "a rutting chimpanzee".

More: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/07/04/french-journalist-filing-new-rape-charges-against-dominique-strauss-kahn/

Hmm, someone doesn't want him to run for President.

[Overcast]

French journalist filing new rape charges against Dominique Strauss-Kahn

By Agence France-Presse
Monday, July 4th, 2011 -- 11:37 am



PARIS — A French woman will bring legal action this week for attempted rape against former IMF head Dominique Strauss-Kahn, her lawyer said Monday in an interview published online.

Tristane Banon, a journalist and writer, "is lodging a complaint for attempted rape against Mr Dominique Strauss-Kahn", the lawyer, David Koubbi, was quoted as saying by news magazine L'Express on its website.

"I will send the complaint tomorrow, Tuesday July 5, to the prosecutor, who will receive it on Wednesday morning."

The announcement came as Strauss-Kahn gained high hopes of being cleared in another sex assault case, which saw him arrested and charged with trying to rape a New York hotel maid and cost him his job as head of the IMF.

Banon, 32, has alleged that Strauss-Kahn invited her to an apartment in 2003 promising to give her an interview, and instead pounced on her like "a rutting chimpanzee".

More: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/07/04/french-journalist-filing-new-rape-charges-against-dominique-strauss-kahn/

See? Don't buy this. DSK could have EASILY gotten a hooker better looking than that and it would have caused him zero problems.

[Kilika]

Don't overlook her mother worked with the guy!

[lovkarpin]

Prosecutor Asks Court to Drop Charges Against Strauss-Kahn

Prosecutors in the office of Cyrus R. Vance Jr., the Manhattan district attorney, have filed papers requesting that all charges be dropped against Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the former head of the International Monetary Fund.

“The nature and number of the complainant’s falsehoods leave us unable to credit her version of events beyond a reasonable doubt, whatever the truth may be about the encounter between the complainant and the defendant,” the papers state. “If we do not believe her beyond a reasonable doubt, we cannot ask a jury to do so.”

http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/08/22/strauss-kahn-accuser-and-lawyer-meet-with-prosecutors/?hp

[stymo1]

NYC Prosecutors Ask Judge to Drop Sexual Assault Charges Against Ex-IMF Chief Strauss-Kahn

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/08/22/ap-source-ny-da-likely-to-drop-strauss-kahn-case/#ixzz1VnQTcU7U

[Brocke]

Dominique Strauss-Kahn arrives back in France

    AAP
    September 04, 2011 4:53PM

FORMER International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn returned home to France on Sunday for the first time since a New York hotel maid accused him of attempted rape, unleashing an international scandal that dashed his chances for the French presidency.

Strauss-Kahn and his wife Anne Sinclair arrived on an Air France flight at Paris' Charles de Gaulle airport at 7.05am local time (3.05pm AEST), passing rapidly through the terminal before being immediately whisked away in a waiting black Peugot.

Surrounded by a large number of police, they were smiling but made no statement to journalists waiting for their arrival.

The pair had boarded the flight at John F.Kennedy International airport on Saturday night, less than two weeks after sensational sexual assault charges against him were dropped in New York.

Strauss-Kahn, 62, resigned as the International Monetary Fund's managing director in May after he was arrested at Kennedy airport and charged with the sexual assault and attempted rape of a hotel maid in New York.

Last week he walked free when a judge dismissed charges against him. Prosecutors said they could not pursue the case because the accuser's lies had made it impossible to prove her accusations beyond a reasonable doubt.

Read more: http://www.news.com.au/breaking-news/dominique-strauss-kahn-arrives-back-in-france/story-e6frfku0-1226129184216#ixzz1X0zI5dxR

[Brocke]

Strauss-Kahn 'suspected phone was hacked'

Former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn suspected that a smartphone lost just before he was arrested on sex assault charges had been hacked, a report says. The claim comes in a detailed account of the day of his arrest, published in the New York Review of Books.

The report also says CCTV film from the New York Sofitel hotel shows two men celebrating after police were called. A criminal case against Mr Strauss-Kahn was dropped but the case sank his hopes of running for the French presidency.

The latest report is likely to revive allegations that Mr Strauss-Kahn may have been the victim of a political plot. He still faces a civil suit by the hotel maid he was alleged to have assaulted, 32-year-old Nafissatou Diallo - even though questions about her honesty led to prosecutors dropping the criminal case.

'Effort to destroy him'

Unnamed sources close to Mr Strauss-Kahn are quoted in the article as saying he had been warned in a text message on the day of his arrest that an email he sent to his wife from his BlackBerry had been read in the offices of French President Nicolas Sarkozy's UMP party in Paris.

He had called his wife Anne Sinclair as he was on his way to the airport to return to France to tell her "something serious" had happened, other sources quoted by news agency AFP suggested. UMP secretary general Jean-Francois Cope dismissed the idea of a plot against Mr Strauss-Kahn as "absolutely ridiculous," alleging on French television that the accusation had been made up to dent Mr Sarkozy's chances of winning the election.

A lawyer for Mr Strauss-Kahn, William Taylor, said: "We cannot now exclude the likelihood that Dominique Strauss-Kahn was the target of a deliberate effort to destroy him as a political force,"

'High-fives'

US journalist Edward Jay Epstein, who wrote the new article, looked at the Sofitel hotel's electronic key records, CCTV footage and phone records to compile the new account of what happened on 14 May 2011.

Electronic key records show Ms Diallo entered the presidential suite in which Mr Strauss-Kahn was staying between 12:06 and 12:07, while phone records show that he was speaking to his daughter Camille by 12:13, the article says.

What happened in the intervening time remains a matter of dispute. Ms Diallo claims he sexually assaulted her while Mr Strauss-Kahn's lawyers said the sexual encounter was consensual.

The report says Mr Strauss-Kahn was concerned at the time that a mobile phone he called his "IMF Blackberry", but which he used for both private and business communications, might have been hacked or interfered with.

Mr Strauss-Kahn had arranged for a friend to examine the phone upon his planned arrival back in Paris.

But by the time he was on his way to JFK airport, before he was apprehended by police following up Ms Diallo's claims of assault, the phone had disappeared. Phone records show its GPS circuitry was disabled at 12:51 - though this may have been deliberate or an accident, the report says.

The account also alleges:

• Police were not called until a full hour after Ms Diallo first alleged a sexual assault had taken place, despite the serious nature of those allegations. After the police arrived, at 14:05, it was a further hour-an-a-half before Ms Diallo was sent to hospital.
• After the police were called, CCTV footage showed the hotel's chief engineer Brian Yearwood and an unidentified man "high-five each other, clap their hands, and do what looks like an extraordinary dance of celebration that lasts for three minutes" as Ms Diallo waits nearby.
• Ms Diallo testified that she had entered no room on the floor of the suite in which she claimed the assault took place, but electronic records show she entered another guest room on the floor - room 2820 - both before and afterwards.

The hotel, Sofitel, has refused to reveal the identity of the guest who was staying in the room, and it is not known whether anyone was there at the times Ms Diallo went in.

Following the scandal, Mr Strauss-Kahn resigned as head of the IMF. His high-flying political career was left in tatters and since returning home, he has faced new allegations of sexual misconduct in France.

more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-15904650

[Satyagraha]

If he is a "pervert" then the powers that be have decided not to help him and have throw him to the wolves. Why?

If he was framed then he is being removed deliberately. Why?

What he did is the tabloid sensationalism that has everybody lighting their torches and dusting off their pitchforks.

What is happening to him is the real story.

Indeed: this was amazing -- he PREDICTED this would happen.

Even those who exercise care can be framed by allegations of an event to which there are no witnesses. On May 16 the British Daily Mail reported that prior to Strauss-Kahn’s fateful departure for New York, the French newspaper, Liberation, published comments he made while discussing his plans to challenge Sarkozy for the presidency of France. Strauss-Kahn said that as he was the clear favorite to beat Sarkozy, he would be subjected to a smear campaign by Sarkozy and his interior minister, Glaude Gueant. Strauss-Kahn predicted that a woman would be offered between 500,000 and 1,000,000 euros (more than $1,000,000) to make up a story that he raped her. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1387625/IMF-chief-Dominique-Strauss-Kahn-feared-political-enemy-pay-woman-allege-rape.html

read more: http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=24840

Swimming with sharks. The PTB needed to get rid of him... he was also interviewed in a video that put the 'truth' out about the IMF and World Bank. When I saw that I was amazed to hear it from Strauss-Khan. He pissed a few people off.
Here's the video:

Inside Job
http://www.metacafe.com/watch/5986575/inside_job/
'Inside Job' provides a comprehensive analysis of the global financial crisis of 2008, which at a cost over $20 trillion, caused millions of people to lose their jobs and homes in the worst recession since the Great Depression, and nearly resulted in a global financial collapse. Through exhaustive research and extensive interviews with key financial insiders, politicians, journalists, and academics, the film traces the rise of a rogue industry which has corrupted politics, regulation, and academia. It was made on location in the United States, Iceland, England, France, Singapore, and China.

[trailhound]

AHA! Thanks Sata I was wondering why they did Kahn ^

[Optimus]

Strauss-Kahn arrested by French police for ‘complicity in pimping’
after he admits attending sex parties all over the world

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2104221/Dominique-Strauss-Kahn-arrested-French-police-complicity-pimping.html#ixzz1n2cIFd9t

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Strauss-Kahn arrested by French police for ‘complicity in pimping’
after he admits attending sex parties all over the world

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2104221/Dominique-Strauss-Kahn-arrested-French-police-complicity-pimping.html#ixzz1n2cIFd9t

Saw this on Yahoo this morning and thought, "Boy, he must have really pissed someone off..."

They'll suicide this minion soon...or he'll have an accident.  Probably, though, he'll "accidentally" hang himself while masturbating...or something else appropriately embarrassing.  Of course, it's not outside the realm of possibility he could commit suicide by shooting himself in the back of the head..twice.