Posted on 06/30/2011 6:38:18 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
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 do not believe much of what the accuser has told them about the circumstances or about herself.
Since her initial allegation on May 14, the accuser has repeatedly lied, one of the law enforcement officials said.
Senior prosecutors met with lawyers for Mr. Strauss-Kahn on Thursday and provided details about their findings, and the parties are discussing whether to dismiss the felony charges. Among the discoveries, one of the officials said, are issues involving the asylum application of the 32-year-old housekeeper, who is Guinean, and possible links to criminal activities, including drug dealing and money laundering.
Prosecutors and defense lawyers will return to State Supreme Court in Manhattan on Friday morning, when Justice Michael J. Obus is expected to consider easing the extraordinary bail conditions that he imposed on Mr. Strauss-Kahn in the days after he was charged.
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because maybe she is a scumbag liar who set him up for money. Maybe the drug dealer she has been laundering money for helped hatch plan with her. Come on dude!! you sound like a Democrat with no logic...Duke Rape case bring any memories!!!
Yeah...god we all sound like DUers now...hope person because of their beliefs wrong or not goes to jail even if not guilty and set up...Amazing how freepers are thinking now...usually we are on the right side even when not popular. You don’t think if a false charge was made and set up that is wrong.
its funny how Strauss Khan was leading Sarkozy in the first polls done 66% to 33% for the French Presidency in 2012 and then wham 2 weeks later, he gets arrested for rape in NY.....call me cynical but......................i would not be surprised if it was a pure set up.
Hard to trust any statements, rumors or testimony with so much money to be made.
Right now, it's starting to shape up into the old "nuts and sluts" defense...
Apart from her lying and criminal activity undermining her credibility, if she has immigration problems a sexual abuse claim might get her a green card. That goes to her motive.
Really? Ya think??
This case had "set-up" written all over it. Yeah, he was going to let not only Greece - but the Euro die. Hence, the fix (a.k.a lying hussy)
A 68 year-old man in a class A hotel room roughs up a maid without her consent?
Like he couldn't afford action like that if he really wanted
Face it: He got Delorian-ed.
Why do you assume that she is telling the truth. The evidence is beginning to make this look like the Duke non-assault, non-rape case.
Another “immigrant” story that shows how corrupt the system has become. This woman should never have been granted asylum. I bet there is much more to this story.
oh it has Sarkozy written all over it.
Who knows if she was really raped? Her credibility seems to be in question.
He could afford just about whatever you could imagine. It was a set-up.
Bottom line. I don’t give a big rat’s ass what happens to the socialist scum. He’s no different than Obama, I wouldn’t care what happened to him either.
Because the accused has the right to face his accusers in court.
Surely you can see that someone with “links to criminal activities, including drug dealing and money laundering” would want to attract Law Enforcement attention to themselves by making a false accusation of rape?
According to the two officials, the woman had a phone conversation with an incarcerated man within a day of her encounter with Mr. Strauss-Kahn in which she discussed the possible benefits of pursuing the charges against him. The conversation was recorded.
That man, the investigators learned, had been arrested on charges of possessing 400 pounds of marijuana. He is among a number of individuals who made multiple cash deposits, totaling around $100,000, into the woman’s bank account over the last two years. The deposits were made in Arizona, Georgia, New York and Pennsylvania.
The investigators also learned that she was paying hundreds of dollars every month in phone charges to five companies. The woman had insisted she had only one phone and said she knew nothing about the deposits except that they were made by a man she described as her fiancé and his friends.
In addition, one of the officials said, she told investigators that her application for asylum included mention of a previous rape, but there was no such account in the application. She also told them that she had been subjected to genital mutilation, but her account to the investigators differed from what was contained in the asylum application.
“Wow, horny French guys, come on in, come rape our girls and poor maids! Season open. Be like your heroes, Strauss-Kahn and Polanski.”
Don’t for get Bill “Put some ice on that” Clinton.
After seeing the pictures of Wiener, he could have raped somebody and, if they had noticed, they might have sued him.
“...a sexual encounter between Mr. Strauss Kahn, a French politician, and the woman,...”
Ménage à trois?
I would say that any of us could be turned into ‘liars’ if the rich and powerful so required...
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