Article

2011-05-16 -Lurid Crime Tales-

Maid picked IMF chief out of line-up, say police as they claim he was trying to flee when ...

Archived material is restricted to Rantburg regulars and members. If you need access email fred.pruitt=at=gmail.com with your nick to be added to the members list. There is no charge to join Rantburg as a member.

Posted by Zebulon Thranter9685 2011-05-16 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 I tend to believe the maid.
By all accounts all this happened within minutes.
No way to invent a fireproof false story. Police would discover flaws very soon.
Obviously they didn't. And there's the word of an Afro-American maid against a very powerful man. That takes a lot of guts. And NYPD seems to have guts, too.
I hope they can find DNA evidence. Would be terrible if he walked because it's his word against hers.

Posted by European Conservative 2011-05-16 00:32|| 2011-05-16 00:32|| Front Page Top

#2 Perp walk

http://www.lefigaro.fr/medias/2011/05/15/84230ca4-7f73-11e0-ae9c-765696900207.jpg

Posted by European Conservative 2011-05-16 00:39|| 2011-05-16 00:39|| Front Page Top

#3 I'm going with Dom contracted jungle fever from bedbugs.

Posted by Zebulon Thranter9685 2011-05-16 00:41|| 2011-05-16 00:41|| Front Page Top

#4 Well he contracted the lawyer who defended Michael Jackson in the child abuse case.

Bet that's an adequate pick.

Posted by European Conservative 2011-05-16 00:44|| 2011-05-16 00:44|| Front Page Top

#5 I'm not sure that is going to help him. In the public's mind, that's like hiring OJ Simpson's lawyers after that bloody farce.

Posted by Zebulon Thranter9685 2011-05-16 00:50|| 2011-05-16 00:50|| Front Page Top

#6 I don't think his first concern will be the public mind. He's done anyway. He won't be president.

The difference may be 20 years in jail. And once the U.S. legal system has someone in its claws it won't let go easily.

Posted by European Conservative 2011-05-16 00:59|| 2011-05-16 00:59|| Front Page Top

#7 The African American lady, who is thought to be originally from Ghana

I guess Ghana can forget getting any more IMF loans.

Posted by gr(o)mgoru 2011-05-16 02:19|| 2011-05-16 02:19|| Front Page Top

#8 Maybe he wasn't THAT popular at the IMF?

Posted by European Conservative 2011-05-16 02:54|| 2011-05-16 02:54|| Front Page Top

#9 Question to NYPD offices: Who is selecting your ties???

Posted by European Conservative 2011-05-16 04:12|| 2011-05-16 04:12|| Front Page Top

#10 If only they could nail Bernanke.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2011-05-16 06:41|| 2011-05-16 06:41|| Front Page Top

#11 Morning television says they have DNA evidence to support the maid's story. Unless Mr Strauss-Kahn's lawyers can prove the laboratory produces bad results, he's toast.

Posted by trailing wife 2011-05-16 07:31|| 2011-05-16 07:31|| Front Page Top

#12 Hey can we cut the guy some slack? After all, as a socialist, he's a tireless advocate "for the little guy", and doesn't that absolve him for this sort of minor infraction?

Posted by Ted Kennedy 2011-05-16 08:08|| 2011-05-16 08:08|| Front Page Top

#13 Dick Wolf, call your scriptwriters.

Posted by Eric Jablow 2011-05-16 09:06|| 2011-05-16 09:06|| Front Page Top

#14 now more facts have come out, i believe the maid

totally

what a perp

Posted by anon1 2011-05-16 09:13|| 2011-05-16 09:13|| Front Page Top

#15 Honest mistake.

He'd just ordered a hooker for a quick BJ and thought the maid uniform was part of the service.

Posted by phil_b 2011-05-16 09:45|| 2011-05-16 09:45|| Front Page Top

#16 French press reports that the lawyers of DSK say that the victim is "very unattractive" and they will go after her to shatter her credibility

Surprise

Posted by European Conservative 2011-05-16 10:03|| 2011-05-16 10:03|| Front Page Top

#17 Update
Lawyers for Dominique Strauss-Kahn have proof the IMF chief was at a restaurant having lunch with his daughter at the time he was alleged to be sexually assaulting a hotel maid, France's RMC radio reported on Monday.

RMC said the lawyers had pieced together Strauss-Kahn's movements and found that he left the hotel at midday, after paying his bill and handing in his key, then went to eat with his daughter and took a taxi to the airport.

The schedule meant he had already left the hotel at the time the maid alleged he chased her down a corridor, forced her into a room and assaulted her, RMC reported on its website, adding that the lawyers had material evidence and witnesses.

Posted by tipper 2011-05-16 10:03|| 2011-05-16 10:03|| Front Page Top

#18 Yes but I've also read that police now say the rape took place around noon.

Strategy: If the guy invents a false alibi you can destroy it. That's why lawyers instruct their clients to remain silent until they have gotten their story straight.

Posted by European Conservative 2011-05-16 10:08|| 2011-05-16 10:08|| Front Page Top

#19 So an immigrant hotel maid -- one of the least powerful people in the world-- says that one of the most powerful people in the world assaulted her, and a couple of hours later the NYPD has him doing the perp walk. This would have been handled much more, uh, discreetly in so many other countries. My point being: Is this a great country or what?

Posted by Matt 2011-05-16 11:30|| 2011-05-16 11:30|| Front Page Top

#20 Strauss-Kahn is quite the socialist. $3,000 a night hotel suites, $20K suits, first class travel on Air France. I'll bet he has a fair bit of his family on various public and NGO payrolls.

All for the little people.

Don't know if he'll survive this particular escapade, but I can only hope he's done as a politician.

Posted by Steve White 2011-05-16 11:34|| 2011-05-16 11:34|| Front Page Top

#21 As IMF chief he is supposed to fuck the poor, but only metaphorically.

Posted by Deacon Blues 2011-05-16 11:57|| 2011-05-16 11:57|| Front Page Top

#22 It's not just the NYPD

The IMF boss, 62, who reportedly earns more than $500,000 a year, is said to have been caught after calling the hotel to ask if he had left his phone there.

A quick-thinking hotel security official lied that he had the phone and asked for Strauss-Kahn's location to meet him and return it, according to the Wall Street Journal.

The Sofitel is owned by Accor, the large French hotel company that is part of the CAC-40, the French equivalent of the DJI. For that security official to do that took some cojones. Or instructions from Paris.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2011-05-16 11:57|| 2011-05-16 11:57|| Front Page Top

#23 maybe his Viagra from the night before didn't wear off so he was chagrin to walk out of the room that way so he thought the maid could help.

Posted by jack salami 2011-05-16 11:58|| 2011-05-16 11:58|| Front Page Top

#24 I think DB (#21) walks away with the snark of the day on this one.

Maybe he figured for $3,000/night he should be allowed to rape anyone he damn well feels like raping - and they should be grateful and bow down and kiss his little head.

Posted by CrazyFool 2011-05-16 13:10|| 2011-05-16 13:10|| Front Page Top

#25 Say what you will of the French Bill Clinton, his victims are certainly better looking.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/may/16/dominique-strauss-khan-tristane-banon

And will bring out the rutting chimp in the best of us.

Posted by regular joe 2011-05-16 13:17|| 2011-05-16 13:17|| Front Page Top

#26 Stop... lets think about this...
An older very rich white man RAPES a Black Maid and is in a holding cell in HARLEM.

... Time to start booking odds on his sex orientation change....

Damn ... video from that cell has got to be priceless...

Posted by Water Modem 2011-05-16 16:38|| 2011-05-16 16:38|| Front Page Top

#27 An interesting interview from April 28
I Could See Myself Becoming The Victim Of A "Honey Trap"

Posted by tipper 2011-05-16 17:31|| 2011-05-16 17:31|| Front Page Top

#28 Question to NYPD offices: Who is selecting your ties???

The tie on the right? I love that tie! Very retro, very '60s. I think we got my dad a tie like that for Christmas once. He never wore it.

Posted by Angie Schultz 2011-05-16 18:58|| 2011-05-16 18:58|| Front Page Top

#29 Dominique's new lodgings.

Posted by tipper 2011-05-16 19:28|| 2011-05-16 19:28|| Front Page Top

#30 "We think this case is very defensible" says his lawyer.

Lawspeak for "he's toast if we can't pay off the victim"

Posted by European Conservative 2011-05-16 20:52|| 2011-05-16 20:52|| Front Page Top

#31 "We think this case is very defensible" says his lawyer.

translation: "I'm charging by the hour"

Posted by Frank G 2011-05-16 21:14|| 2011-05-16 21:14|| Front Page Top

#32 heh, JUSTICE - speaking of "charging by the hour": your Mom owes a refund. I found graffiti in hebrew on her inner thigh. I didn't expect a virgin, but yeesh? two IDF battalions? Talk about throwing a hot dog down a bowling alley

Posted by Frank G 2011-05-16 22:21|| 2011-05-16 22:21|| Front Page Top

23:30 trailing wife
22:37 SteveS
22:30 Thing From Snowy Mountain
22:21 JosephMendiola
22:21 Frank G
22:17 Barbara Skolaut
22:10 Pappy
22:06 badanov
22:06 Pappy
22:05 Dale
21:59 Hupoluns Munster5501
21:58 Secret Asian Man
21:55 Pappy
21:54 CrazyFool
21:52 Hupoluns Munster5501
21:47 Thing From Snowy Mountain
21:35 whatadeal
21:14 Frank G
21:12 Fred
21:07 phil_b
21:01 Fred
20:52 European Conservative
20:38 Frank G
20:36 Frank G