NEWS ALERT:After Forced Resignation, Dominique Strauss-Kahn Is Released From House Arrest. Prosecutors Say Maid Lied.

He may be free, but he's still a pig. And he's stupid for letting himself open to all this prior to an election. What about the other women he's had sex with in other countries?
So his wife has to spend the rest of her life living with this crap and the voters reading it too. You can say it has nothing to do with his job, but it is just extraneous bullshit that no one needs, all because he can't keep it zipped.

"The claim: The maid lied to the grand jury when she said she had left Dominique Strauss-Kahn's suite immediately after the alleged assault. According to the letter today, she originally told the grand jury that she went to a common area on the 28th floor and waited for Strauss-Kahn to leave his room after the alleged attack, then called her supervisor. But she later reversed her story and said she had cleaned another room. The implication, aside from the charge that she lied, is that she wasn't too disturbed by having just been assaulted."

The problem that I have with this assertion that she was not too disturbed by the incident is insane. People handle trauma differently. I got the shit beat out of me in high school for no reason. I was kicked in the head with metal toed boots. I went to my play rehearsal and performed as if nothing happened and then collapsed on the stage. Also, after a trauma, people do not always remember exactly what happened right away or unintentionally make up a memory.

I still think all this new evidence and allegations of lying is fishy.

I didn't believe her!

USA: resign from the IMF and we'll let you go
(study global finance and it will make sense)

Very confusing:

- First, this woman had $100,000 in her bank account, wow that is a lot for a maid, and what a round figure.

-Second, the money has been there for two years, so she has been a dealer for two years, or more to the point criminal manipulator long before this incident. Even more Interesting is how a bank record is the evidence that will free the former head of the world bank

- the victims ties to the drug world called her, because how would she know when the inmate could talk to her, but more to the point why is this guy in prison and she is not?

- how convenient, the conversation is recorded without having the need for any kind of warrent.

- 32-year-old Guinean, I guess everone knows if your Guinean, these kind of scams are second nature that and being a Nigerian.

He could still be innocent, but the simple fact is they had sex, and the french guy lied about it untill the police found proof of the sex. Suddenly, she gets a call from an inmate. Sounds like to me she was a mark from the get go.

He was arrested very shortly after the IMF announced it was strongly considering using another "dollar" unit, instead of the unit it has always used--the American dollar--for currency exchange.

It was so soon after, I have always wondered if that was a set-up retaliation by our CIA to get him out of the leadership position and stop the move to change the currency exchange unit.

I just read an article were the womens lawyer is PO because she's being so openly slanderd and libled in the press and on tv. So what if she wants monetary benifits/ if I was a women who was just sexually assaulted your bet damn straight that i'm going after his ass for everything he's worth. The police have enough to charge him (direct DNA evidence, proven damage that could only occur through force) but I think politics is steping in. remember, the rich never pay for their crimes, only the poor do.

Yuck!

Any truth about what happened will never see he light of day on either side. If a prostitute is raped, it is still rape. Just because the prosecution is the one that is releasing all of this information about the maid's shady character does not mean it is necessarily true.

I am a pretty straight laced woman with no criminal past. I imagine if I was raped by a powerful man and actually had the nerve to press charges, there would be exaggerations and/or outright lies about my past as well to make me look untrustworthy.

I hope this is not the case, but if it is, the poor girl has my sympathy. There is nothing more horrible than being raped and then having your whole character dragged through the mud in the public eye.

I predicted this outcome verbally to some of my friends. To much power to be going down on this charge.

This entire story makes me feel dirty. DSK was all but convicted. The maids credibility is now being questioned. Didn't this guy have a history?...The maid has a history. Both characters that won't recieve much sympathy.

Prosecutors Detail Lies Told By DSK Accuser.

She lied about being gang-raped in her home country. She cheated on her taxes. And she changed details of her story about being sexually assaulted by a man once seen as the next president of France.

These were some of the devastating charges laid out by prosecutors about the hotel maid who accuses former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn of sexual assault.

And perhaps most crucially, she admitted giving false testimony to the grand jury about what happened immediately following the purported attack.

Those inconsistencies, detailed in a letter prosecutors sent to Strauss-Kahn's defense team on Thursday and given to reporters on Friday, have led investigators to lose faith in her credibility as a witness and could undermine their case.

A lawyer for the accuser admitted the woman made some mistakes but insisted she was sexually assaulted by Strauss-Kahn, then a steward of the world economy and the man leading the polls to become the next president of France.

The lawyer, Kenneth Thompson, portrayed the story of a frightened, illiterate woman who followed some bad advice. She was badly bruised and injured in the assault and may need surgery to repair a torn ligament in her shoulder, he said.

Regarding any claim that Strauss-Kahn and the woman had consensual sex, Thompson said: "That is a lie."

"The victim from Day One described a violent sexual assault. ... She has never once changed a single thing about that account. The District Attorney knows that. That was true the day it happened. That was true today," Thompson told a news conference.

LIES AND MISTAKES

District Attorney Cyrus Vance, the elected chief prosecutor in Manhattan whose political future could hinge on this case, told reporters the case was still active but stopped short of saying the prosecution would continue no matter what.

"As prosecutors, our duty is to do what is right in every case without fear and favor wherever that leads," Vance said.

The accuser initially told prosecutors and the grand jury she fled to a hallway after being attacked in Strauss-Kahn's suite and waited for him to leave, and she also told a supervisor what happened shortly after, prosecutors said.

"The complainant (accuser) has since admitted that this account was false and that after the incident in Suite 2806, she proceeded to clean a nearby room and then returned to Suite 2806 (Strauss-Kahn's room) and began to clean that suite before she reported the incident to her supervisor," the letter said.

The accuser also admitted she lied about being politically persecuted in her home country of Guinea in order to gain U.S. asylum, cheating on her taxes by claiming an additional child as a dependent and misrepresented her income in order to maintain her present housing, the letter said.

"Finally, during the course of this investigation, the complainant was untruthful with assistant district attorneys about a variety of additional topics concerning her history, background, present circumstances and personal relationships.

Lawyer Thompson said the illiterate woman received bad advice that she needed to "hype" her petition for U.S. asylum.

A victim of female genital mutilation, she did not want the same fate to befall her daughter but did not know that would be enough to qualify for asylum, Thompson said. Instead she told a story of political prosecution.

Moreover, she was forthcoming about her mistakes with prosecutors, Thompson said.

The case against Strauss-Kahn appeared to be near collapse when investigators started losing faith in her credibility.

"The victim here may have made some mistakes, but that doesn't mean she's not a rape victim," Thompson said.

In her asylum petition, she told of being gang-raped but now admits the story was fabricated. However, she told prosecutors she was raped in the past in Guinea but under different circumstances than what she described during initial interviews, the letter said.

Wow my fellow liberals on this site realy disapoint me some times. I loath Sarcozi with a passion but that does not mean I am willing to ignore a charge of rape or blame the victim here as many of you have on this thread have. This man had multiple charges of sexual misconduct made against him over many years. The Labor movment in France will do well to get this Libertine off its neck and look to the younger generation to lead them into a less misagonist future. They already have a strong young leader on the streets leadingtheir street protests I forget his name right now but he was saying that the only reason he was not leading the party all together was due to seniority issues. So maybe Strauss-Kahn getting out of the way will in fact be a great thing for the Labor party and France as a whole.

I have said early on that the media is pounding this way to hard, and law enforcement making a circus out of this. I was very sad to see it going on, yet of course a woman accusing someone of rape needs to be taken serious. If Strauss-Kahn did not have the means to hire his own investigative team I wonder how this would have worked out for him. Another embarrassing moment for American law enforcement.

We now live in a country were a simple accusation without proof can ruin an individuals life. This is a case of too much, too little, too late. The damage is done. Dominique Strauss-Kahn's career and life has already been ruin.

Mission accomplished for the bad guys. There can never be enough retribution to make this man whole again.

Indeed. It was pretty easy to spot this honey trap from the start. The obvious motive was to get rid of this guy and install a more US friendlily man in his place. It's just a terrible shame that this old fashioned cold war crap continues under Obama.
Thought we'd seen an end to this shoddy amateur spy crap with Bush jnr and his fake WMD "evidence".

The only problem I see with this is that this isn't the first accusation of sexual misconduct against DSK.

I was surprised that he was arrested in the first place.

what charges does the maid face???

We allow financial capitalists to control the political process. We should not be surprised when they go after individuals who have the potential to expose them or to thwart their attempts to maintain power. Nothing will come of this in the USA as long as economic policy continues to be made by those who have and will continue to benefit from a system that is largely above the law of individual sovereign states. Greece is the epitome of this effort.

He called the Hotel from the Airport and reported he forgot his phone.
He wasn't running, he was catching his flight. He is the victim of an
attempted setup/takedown. And he was ahead of Sarkozy in the latest
French political polls. And will be again very soon.

Why did he rush to leave the hotel and forget his cell phone?I think he is guilty as hell.

If the prosecutor did not think her story was credible, why were charges ever brought? It seems that there is more going on than real people will be allowed to know. It seems, as more information comes to light, that this is a complicated mess with plenty of international intrigue. The maid was from Guinea, formally a French colony in West Africa. Although the country turned to the Soviet Union after independence, there are still strong ties back to France.

Maybe the conspiracy theorist are right on this one. The women was a call girl placed there by French officials as a way of neutralizing a Socialist candidate for President, and one that had a strong chance of defeating Sarkozy. Maybe.

hurray! money and power trump justice again! isn't it wonderfull?

Indeed this was a setup by the opposition to his popularity and the fact that he would have been president of France.

as i said from the beginning...i thot there waz a high probability he waz set-up!

If this is true, that poor man. Not the first time someone has been falsely accused.

WOW...

thats all i can really say about this.

She should go to jail for this.
And lock up that Haggerty bitch too.

The arrest of IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn signals new phase in financial war

Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the head of the IMF, was arrested last week because he was trying to steal the American people’s Social Security money to finance the Euro, according to Rothschild family sources. The charge of rape against him was almost certainly a case of entrapment by a female agent although I am sure no proof of this will ever be found. The next phase in the battle against the high level financial gangsters is expected to target Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley but, the closing of these criminal enterprises will only mark an intermediate phase in the battle against the criminal elements concentrated in the central banks of the West, according to White Dragon Society sources. The end result is certain to be a historical change of the sort not seen for thousands of years, if ever.

United States of America – It can now be reported that the U.S. Senate Banking Committee has recommended criminal prosecution of the gangster investment bank and brokerage Goldman Sachs, as well as the notorious criminal financial giant J. P. Morgan.

The criminal referrals have been sent to the U. S. Justice Department and now sit on the desk of compromised U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder.

The criminal referrals not only name Goldman Sachs and J. P. Morgan but former President George W. Bush aka BushFRAUD, former Bush Administration U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry ‘Hank’ Paulson, former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan, former Speaker of the House Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi, Democrat of California, and last but not least, dysfunctional U.S. Secretary of State and former New York Senator, loser Hillary Rodham Clinton.

Item: Attorney General Holder, who was linked to the pardon of noted Bush-Clinton Crime Family Syndicate bagman Marc Rich, is now in a box with sources close to the New York Post reporting that both Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein and J.P. Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon are about to be indicted by a New York Federal Grand Jury.

Reference: The indictments deal with a violation of the New York state “bucketing” law which forbids false misrepresentation in the sales marketing of derivatives.

More to the arrest of IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn than meets the eyes?
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And now the plot now thickens. A great deal of the evidence submitted to the Senate Banking Committee, as well as New York state prosecutors, was supplied to them by none other than the current President of the International Monetary Fund and soon to be French Presidential candidate, Dominique Strauss-Kahn.

It is therefore no coincidence that at 4:40 p.m. yesterday, May 14th, Strauss-Kahn was removed from a departing flight and arrested early this morning by New York police and charged with sexual assault of a chambermaid who worked at the Sofitel hotel in New York City near Times Square.

Reference: The Sofitel hotel has long been known as an outpost for foreign intelligence activity, specifically operations of the Israeli Mossad.

Note: What is also interesting about these events surrounding Strauss-Kahn is that for whatever reason Strauss-Kahn’s diplomatic immunity was revoked by the U.S. State Department 24 hours BEFORE the alleged sexual incident occurred at the Sofitel hotel.

Item: The U.S. Secretary of State, of course, is none other than Hillary Rodham Clinton, who is now a subject of the aforementioned investigation triggered by evidence given to Federal and State prosecutors by none other than Strauss-Kahn.

I will leave it to the readers of this intelligence briefing to come to their own conclusion concerning this strange event.

And now the plot thickens even more!