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The Amazing Strauss-Kahn Case The roue, the maid and the mysterious $100,000 deposit.
WSJ ^ | JULY 1, 2011,

Posted on 07/04/2011 10:55:54 AM PDT by woofie

Within the disintegration of the Manhattan district attorney's case against Dominique Strauss-Kahn may be found sufficient lessons to occupy seminars on law, media, sex rehab and modern politics for a very long time.

Let's start with the higher road of the law's role in what, from start to finish, has been a very low story.

After Mr. Strauss-Kahn's arrest in May for his encounter with an immigrant maid in a room at the Sofitel Hotel on New York's West 44th Street, the Manhattan DA charged him with seven counts, including four felonies. Bear in mind that the accused was not some anonymous French businessman overwhelmed by the neon excitement of Times Square but was the managing director of the International Monetary Fund and the odds-on favorite to be the Socialist contender for the presidency of France.

After indicting Mr. Strauss-Kahn, Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. announced that the "evidence supports the commission of nonconsensual forced sexual acts." Moreover, the prosecutor's office called the maid's account of sex "compelling and unwavering." Thereupon, Mr. Strauss-Kahn took ownership of the tabloid covers.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: dominiquestrausskahn; france; rape; tristanebanon
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1 posted on 07/04/2011 10:55:58 AM PDT by woofie
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To: woofie

The investigation revealed that a day after the May incident the Guinean immigrant called a man, in jail for possession of 400 pounds of marijuana, to discuss how she might exploit the case. The call was taped. Even more compelling, this man and others had made cash deposits totaling $100,000 in the maid’s bank account. This raised the possibility that the woman was involved in drug trafficking and money laundering. There’s more, but that’s enough.


2 posted on 07/04/2011 10:58:57 AM PDT by woofie
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To: woofie

http://news.yahoo.com/strauss-kahn-faces-sexual-assault-complaint-155416747.html


3 posted on 07/04/2011 11:03:11 AM PDT by Osage Orange (MOLON LABE)
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To: woofie; All

As the article points out, whatever financial things were going on, there is clear evidence of sex, whether forced or consensual, which in Strauss’ position was stupid and immoral even if not illegal. He will pay the Weiner penalty no matter the legal outcome.


4 posted on 07/04/2011 11:04:28 AM PDT by gleeaikin
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To: woofie
Women never lie about these matters. NOW told me so.
5 posted on 07/04/2011 11:05:51 AM PDT by Steely Tom (Obama goes on long after the thrill of Obama is gone)
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To: woofie

from the article:

“There was a time when the peccadilloes, misdemeanors and even high crimes of public officials might be carried out on the tides.”

Translation: He should’ve told her to “Put some ice on it”.


6 posted on 07/04/2011 11:07:46 AM PDT by Stosh
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To: woofie

Oh dear.

DSK was my personal equivalent of Tom Wolfe’s Great White Defendant.

Sniff.


7 posted on 07/04/2011 11:11:22 AM PDT by Sherman Logan
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To: gleeaikin

“He will pay the Weiner penalty no matter the legal outcome”.

French politicians get alot more wiggle room in the pervert/infidelity department than most.


8 posted on 07/04/2011 11:21:34 AM PDT by lacrew (Mr. Soetoro, we regret to inform you that your race card is over the credit limit.)
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To: woofie
Details on both sides are going to continue to ooze out -- I notice the NY Post and NY Daily News are now (as of today, July 4) taking opposite sides, each with their own set of unnamed sources and innuendoes.

So I await evidence.

But let me say this: Why would a woman with, "they" "say", so much to hide --- deportable immigration fraud, money-laundering, etc. --- risk everything for a public fracas that would expose her to certain scrutiny, exposure and prosecution? She had to know she was way too vulnerable to risk being investigated, herself.

Something here does not add up.

9 posted on 07/04/2011 11:22:18 AM PDT by Mrs. Don-o ("No matter how cynical you become, it's never enough to keep up." ~ Lily Tomlin)
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To: woofie

I thought it was a setup from the start.


10 posted on 07/04/2011 11:22:30 AM PDT by StolarStorm
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To: woofie

Wow.
What sort of power play was going on here?


11 posted on 07/04/2011 11:24:08 AM PDT by Little Ray (Best Conservative in the Primary; AGAINST Obama in the General.)
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To: Little Ray

100k isn’t chump change either. You can bribe a judge for less. So, big players might be involved.


12 posted on 07/04/2011 11:26:11 AM PDT by StolarStorm
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To: Mrs. Don-o

But let me say this: Why would a woman with, “they” “say”, so much to hide -— deportable immigration fraud, money-laundering, etc. -— risk everything for a public fracas that would expose her to certain scrutiny, exposure and prosecution? She had to know she was way too vulnerable to risk being investigated, herself.

Easy for me to believe. She got over confident after all the scams and whoring she pulled without any repercussions. I remember when this first broke her brother called her a “pious Muslim” what a joke!

Feminists exposed by rush to judgment-----    .....According to their too-perfect narrative, his alleged victim, a pious Muslim refugee and single mother, was "traumatized" by a brutal sex attack. ...

 

13 posted on 07/04/2011 11:38:09 AM PDT by dennisw (NZT - "works better if you're already smart")
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To: Mrs. Don-o

I agree. she is being systematically destroyed, maybe with her consent. DSK paid her.


14 posted on 07/04/2011 11:40:14 AM PDT by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: Mrs. Don-o

If, as a previous post states, she was stupid enough to call someone in prison for marijuana possession, and NOT know her call would be taped, as she discussed with him how to exploit the “assault”, she’s stupid enough not to see how she and her history would be gone over with a fine tooth comb, and how our legal process works. These people are not very sophisticated after all, to think they were
engineering the ‘perfect shake-down’.


15 posted on 07/04/2011 11:40:17 AM PDT by supremedoctrine ("uncurtaining the night,I'd let dark glass/hang all the furniture above the grass." -Nabokov)
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To: gleeaikin
If it was consensual or a business transaction, why should he pay any penalty? His own wife has said that as a public figure, it is his duty to seduce. She has no problem with his infidelity. The French are like that. Yves Montand's wife, Simone Signoret, remarked of her husband's affair with Monroe that if MM was in love with her husband, that proved that she had good taste as she herself was in love with him, too. Mark Twain correctly noted that France has neither winter nor summer nor morals--apart from these drawbacks it is a fine country. They're different than us. He should have to pay no penalty. And we should have to pay very much less into the fund. As it stands now, our Dep't. of Defense budget is smaller than what we give the IMF. That is the sticking point for me. If we gave it much less money, I wouldn't care which French/European jackass ran it.


16 posted on 07/04/2011 11:45:57 AM PDT by definitelynotaliberal (There is no native criminal class except Congress. Mark Twain)
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To: StolarStorm
Little Ray: Wow. What sort of power play was going on here?

StolarStorm : 100k isn’t chump change either. You can bribe a judge for less. So, big players might be involved.


17 posted on 07/04/2011 11:50:25 AM PDT by Talisker (History will show the Illuminati won the ultimate Darwin Award.)
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To: dennisw
Of course that's possibly true. On the other hand, DSK, despite his reputed savoir-faire, first lied that "nothing happened" and then tried "if anything happened, it was consensual."

There may be plenty of sleaze to go around. Also plenty of stupid.

18 posted on 07/04/2011 11:54:08 AM PDT by Mrs. Don-o ("No matter how cynical you become, it's never enough to keep up." ~ Lily Tomlin)
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To: Talisker

Is she picking her nose? And what about those black lines at her gums around her teeth......


19 posted on 07/04/2011 11:56:00 AM PDT by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: neverdem; Mrs. Don-o

She got the $100,000.00 from the IMF politician as a “shut up” bribe after the assault.

Or, she was paid $100,000.00 as a bribe before the assault to entrap the IMF politician from some other side of his office (think French political opponent, or Socialist opponent, or IMF opponent, person/country who wants to influence the IMF) who would immediately benefit from the IMF head’s troubles.

Thus, she is discussing what do do with the money.

(With this administration - you really think she is going to get in trouble based on her immigration status? H*ll - that’s makes her a double victim in their eyes!)


20 posted on 07/04/2011 12:06:56 PM PDT by Robert A Cook PE (I can only donate monthly, but socialists' ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
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