Posted on 05/14/2011 9:03:08 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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I wonder if the maid’s name is Lupe
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DSK was the great hope of the Socialist Party to be the next President of France.
Can’t wait to see him go from wearing $35K suits made by Obama’s personal tailor to wearing an orange jumpsuit!
He knew Bill Clinton could do that and get away with it and thought he could too.
DSK ARRESTED & CHARGED LATEST UPDATE
IMF chief charged with sex attack in New York hotel
IMF chief and possible French presidential contender Dominique Strauss-Kahn was arrested and charged with an alleged sexual assault, including an attempted rape, on a hotel maid in New York City, police said on Sunday.
Strauss-Kahn, was removed from an Air France plane minutes before it was to take off for Paris from John F Kennedy International Airport on Saturday, New York police spokesman Paul Browne said.
Browne said Strauss-Kahn was formally arrested at 2:15 a.m. on Sunday on charges of criminal sexual act, attempted rape and unlawful imprisonment.
A lawyer representing Strauss-Kahn, Benjamin Brafman, told Reuters in an email that the International Monetary Fund chief “will plead not guilty.” Brafman made no further comment.
A 32-year-old maid filed a sexual assault complaint after fleeing the $3,000-a-night hotel suite at the Sofitel in Times Square where the alleged incident occurred around 1 p.m. on Saturday, Browne said.
Strauss-Kahn, 62, who has been considered a possible Socialist Party candidate in the French presidential election in April and May 2012, appeared to have fled the hotel after the incident, the police spokesman said.
Browne told Reuters an account of events which led to the state charges against Strauss-Kahn. “She told detectives he came out of the bathroom naked, ran down a hallway to the foyer where she was, pulled her into a bedroom and began to sexually assault her, according to her account.”
“She pulled away from him and he dragged her down a hallway into the bathroom where he engaged in a criminal sexual act, according to her account to detectives. He tried to lock her into the hotel room,” Browne added.
Browne said Strauss-Kahn does not have diplomatic immunity. He is expected to be brought before state court on Sunday.
According to New York state law, a criminal sexual act includes forcibly compelling someone to engage in oral sex. The offence carries a potential sentence of 15-20 years, the same as attempted rape. Unlawful imprisonment carries a potential sentence of three to five years.
The IMF managing director has yet to say whether he will run for president, although French opinion polls put him as a clear winner over conservative incumbent Nicolas Sarkozy if the two faced off in an election.
“The NYPD realized he had fled, he had left his cell phone behind,” Browne said. “We learned he was on an Air France plane. They held the plane and he was taken off and is now being held in police custody for questioning.”
After being removed from the aircraft’s first-class section, he was taken to the police department’s Special Victims Unit in Manhattan, known to viewers of a hit U.S. television show based on its work.
The woman, who has not been named, “was brought by EMS (emergency medical services) to the Roosevelt Hospital, where she was treated for minor injuries,” Browne said.
Maybe someone at the hotel told him that the service sucks.
The police may already have taken a picture of the "smoking gun" :-)
The head of the IMF is a former communist party member? Makes complete sense ...
Hmmmmm. Well, it's a plausible legal defense that rape and robbery are official functions of the IMF.
A case of diplomatic impunity.
No wonder Bill Clinton liked the IMF so much that he signed that EO [to give them billions of dollars].
Who is surprised?
Dominique Strauss-Kahn with his wife Anne Sinclair
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/imf-chief-denies-misconduct-after-affair-966935.html?action=Popup
IMF chief denies misconduct after affair - Dominique Strauss-Kahn with his wife Anne Sinclair.
Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominique_Strauss-Kahn
“Dominique Strauss-Kahn is married to his third wife, the American-born French journalist Anne Sinclair.”
Related scandal back in 2008:
Nicolas Sarkozy dismay as Dominique Strauss-Kahn in sex scandal ...Oct 20, 2008 ... The news that Dominique Strauss-Kahn, 59, is being investigated in ... alleged that Piroska Nagy, his wife, had been seduced by her boss at the ... “The affair may well be ridiculous compared with the destiny of the ...
www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article4972855.ece
Dominique Strauss-Kahn, head of the IMF, escapes dismissal over ...Oct 26, 2008 ... Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the French head of the ...
www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article5018339.ece
IMF must stand for "Intercourse, Mother F*****r!!!!"
the $3,000-a-night hotel suite at the Sofitel and pulled off the first class section of the plane...we need to stop funding these playhouses of the elite of governments worldwide. I am sick of it. No wonder no one from NYC wants to see the UN gone, it is a money machine.
Hey, all those clowns pay the 14.25% hotel room tax, the 8.25% sales tax...that's cash money!
Look, even if the US were to leave the UN, the corrupticrats would still want to keep their playpen in the Big Apple, with all its "delights".
Hey, all those clowns pay the 14.25% hotel room tax, the 8.25% sales tax...that's cash money!
Look, even if the US were to leave the UN, the corrupticrats would still want to keep their playpen in the Big Apple, with all its "delights".
;’)
RE: They should have kept Wolfowitz.
Let’s not confuse the IMF with the World Bank. The main similarities between the two is that BOTH are subsidized by ... the 49% of Americans who pay taxes.
“Vous appliquer de la glace qui”
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