Hotel Maid Accusing Strauss-Kahn of Rape Reportedly Worked as Prostitute

[Jam]

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/07/02...as-prostitute/

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/m...YGYYJyA0RNbI/0

"There is information... of her getting extraordinary tips," the source told the Post.

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The woman also had "a lot of her expenses -- hair braiding, salon expenses -- paid for by men not related to her," the source said.
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The Manhattan District Attorney's Office revealed that the 32-year-old woman had committed a host of minor frauds to better her life in the U.S. since arriving in the country seven years ago, including lying on immigration paperwork, cheating on her taxes, and misstating her income so she could live in an apartment reserved for the poor.
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But the accuser's attorney did not back down on the seriousness of the charges, telling reporters that Strauss-Khan's claim of consensual sex is a "lie."
"From Day One she has described a violent sexual assault that Dominique Strauss-Kahn committed against her," attorney Ken Thompson said.
"She has described that sexual assault many times, to prosecutors and to me, and she has never once changed a single thing about that encounter," he said. "The victim here may have made some mistakes, but that doesn't mean she's not a rape victim."

[don]

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Paul Craig Roberts on the upcoming dismissal :


The New York prosecutor has had to tell the judge that the police and prosecutors have lost confidence in their sexual assault case against former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn. The judge has released DSK from house arrest and returned his bail and bond money.


The prosecutors say that the immigrant hotel maid lied to the police about the incident and about other things, and the police have revealed that the “victim” discussed with an imprisoned man the possibility of turning the case into extortion. According to the New York Times, the maid’s jailed confidant was among a number of people who had made multiple cash deposits totaling $100,000 to the maid’s bank account. The police now suspect that the maid has connections to illegal drugs and money laundering.


The prosecutor says that he will continue to investigate the case. What that means is that the prosecutor, a politically ambitious Cy Vance, is going for a misdemeanor plea from DSK to save the prosecutor’s face from injudiciously being drawn into an extortion/reputation-destroying plot against the man who French polls indicated was the public’s favorite in the upcoming French presidential election in which President Sarkozy, Washington’s puppet, is seeking reelection. The prosecutor is sending DSK’s legal team the message that the case is being kept open and could be reinstated unless DSK’s attorneys secure DSK’s permission to negotiate a deal on a minor charge, which essentially has no punishment, but saves the faces of the NY prosecutor and police.


We will probably never know whether the maid thought the scheme up on her own or whether it came from Sarkozy’s operatives and their US allies. One indication that DSK’s political enemies are implicated is the fact, made public by the French press, that Sarkozy’s political team in France knew about DSK’s arrest before the NY police announced it. This fact did not stop the NY prosecutor and police from painting DSK as guilty in numerous public statements and in unethical if not illegal leaks to reporters.


When police and prosecutors convict a suspect in the media before he is even charged, it typically means that there is no evidence against him and that demonization is serving as the substitute. Conviction is what is important to the system, not a determination of innocence or guilt.


On numerous Internet sites, I pointed out the problems with the case against DSK. For informing people of the obvious, I was denounced by the right-wing and the left-wing.


The right-wing gave me the finger for doubting the word and integrity of police and prosecutor. Didn’t I know that these are the honorable guardians who protect the public from crime? How dare I question anything the police and prosecutor did or do. What was I, some kind of pinko-liberal-commie?


The left-wing also gave me the finger and said that I had revealed my real self as nothing but an apologist for the rich and powerful and for men who seduce women. How much was I paid for my service to the rich and powerful and seducers of innocent women?


The feminist left denounced me as a misogynist. Only a woman-hater could take the side of a rapist against his victim.


It is all so tiresome to endure the stupidity of people. Little wonder they are losing their liberty, their jobs and incomes, and their country and self-respect.


With DSK’s reputation in tatters and DSK knocked out of the French presidential election and removed from the IMF, where he was beginning to raise questions about the establishment’s use of the IMF to bail out rich bankers on the backs of poor peasants, the “justice system” has done its work. It is now safer for the authorities to release him than to risk a trial. The shrill bleating of the maid’s legal team signifies their agony at having lost their share of the hoped-to-be extorted millions now that a monetary settlement would clearly indicate obstruction of justice and prison for them all.


Those few who actually care about justice, not only for DSK and everyman, but also for the Greek, Spanish, Irish, and Portuguese people, can find comfort in the fact that apparently DSK had come to New York in order to speak with Nobel economist Joe Stiglitz about a more humane and democratic way to resolve the sovereign debt crisis in Europe than the one imposed by the private creditor banks.


Obviously, anyone who would consult with Stiglitz is perceived by the rich and powerful as a threat to their interest.

[Jam]

Re: Hotel Maid Accusing Strauss-Kahn of Rape Reportedly Worked as Prostitute

With DSK’s reputation in tatters and DSK knocked out of the French presidential election and removed from the IMF, [...] the “justice system” has done its work.

Looks like the U.S. 'justice system' has been played like a violin.

[don]

Re: Hotel Maid Accusing Strauss-Kahn of Rape Reportedly Worked as Prostitute

Looks like the U.S. 'justice system' has been played like a violin.

A both willing and well paid violin

(Lesson to be learned: don't f**k with the financial oligarchy)

[BigBagel]

Re: Hotel Maid Accusing Strauss-Kahn of Rape Reportedly Worked as Prostitute

I'm a retired New York cop. During my career I mainly dealt with the Bronx and New York County DA's office. The average Bronx ADA was a working class guy on the move upward. The Manhattan ADA was many times a guy or girl born on third base. JFK's kid was there until he failed his bar exam for the second time. Dan Rather's kid worked there. He had a good reputation. One guy I dealt with had the same name as a very famous lawyer who had a former president as a client. When I asked if they were related he became very angry at me for asking the question. The lawyer was his uncle.
The prior DA's father was Roosevelt's Secretary of the Treasury. The current DA's father is a former Secretary of State. Vance spent his time practicing law in Seattle. He returned to NY and ran against a wonderful judge named Leslie Crocker Snyder. She unfortunately lost. Now he's playing in the big leagues and he's having his troubles on a number of high profile cases.

In New York you can keep a person in jail 4 business days. If he's being charged with a felony he must be indicted before a grand jury in that 4 day period or he has to be let out. If he's out on bail or ROR you have 6 months. They (the DA's office)could have agreed to bail and then looked at this very case very closely. They went at him so hard I figured that had him cold. They didn't.

You can spin your conspiracy theories all you want. The truth is even more troubling: Once again it's the incompetence of our so called "elites".

[Jam]

Re: Hotel Maid Accusing Strauss-Kahn of Rape Reportedly Worked as Prostitute

You can spin your conspiracy theories all you want. The truth is even more troubling: Once again it's the incompetence of our so called "elites".

That's an interesting take, and especially valuable coming from someone with inside knowledge of the system. It actually supports the thesis that the system was played--it is so much easier to do if the key officials are incompetent.

[don]

Re: Hotel Maid Accusing Strauss-Kahn of Rape Reportedly Worked as Prostitute

Anyone that doesn't at least entertain the notion that the International Mafia Federation chief wasn't framed should go back to writing traffic tickets. Rock the boat, bye-bye. He wasn't anything special for the rest of us, just ruffled the wrong feathers. Never underestimate the power of an example, as well.

[lektrode]

Re: Hotel Maid Accusing Strauss-Kahn of Rape Reportedly Worked as Prostitute

Anyone that doesn't at least entertain the notion that the International Mafia Federation chief wasn't framed should go back to writing traffic tickets. Rock the boat, bye-bye. He wasn't anything special for the rest of us, just ruffled the wrong feathers. Never underestimate the power of an example, as well.

i dunno don - altho it certainly appears that in the conspiracy theorists playbook, that this one is a high-5/mission accomplished for the cartel, i think bigbagel's take on this is perty damn hard to ignore/discount, woudnt you agree?

[don]

Re: Hotel Maid Accusing Strauss-Kahn of Rape Reportedly Worked as Prostitute

i dunno don - altho it certainly appears that in the conspiracy theorists playbook, that this one is a high-5/mission accomplished for the cartel, i think bigbagel's take on this is perty damn hard to ignore/discount, woudnt you agree?

Having no privileged info whatsoever, not dismissing a frame job should not be dismissed out of hand. A few reasons why:

The powerful pull this crap all the time. When it is made into a big public perp walk something doesn't smell right.

Was S-K drifting off message? What was the role of the upcoming French elections? Maybe they both aren't relevant. Dunno.

The Spitzer parallels.

Finally, the dismissal of charges following D-K's political demise.

Just a part time prostitute shooting a money angle? Maybe, but this isn't an average John.

On the other hand, who really cares? D-K? The way the powerful deal with underlings? Not me.

More importantly, it's a personal standard of mine not to personalize a negative response on the 'tulip. Having violated that, my apologies to Bagel. Mea culpa, pal.

[Jam]

Re: Hotel Maid Accusing Strauss-Kahn of Rape Reportedly Worked as Prostitute

And there is more on the (perceived) (in)competence/management style of the DA and his office.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/03/ny...pagewanted=all

Some of the most pointed complaints about Mr. Vance are emanating from the district attorney’s office itself, according to numerous interviews with prosecutors and other officials. They spoke on the condition that their names not be used, saying they feared reprisals.
Several said they worried that cases were often pursued with an excessive focus on whether they would generate publicity. Some said Mr. Vance had taken away the discretion of midlevel prosecutors, sometimes to the detriment of cases.
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Early on, Mr. Vance took the case away from the sex crimes unit and gave it to two other experienced assistant district attorneys.
Some people in the office said that decision hurt the office’s handling of the case because those prosecutors were not as familiar with the types of problems that sex crimes prosecutors routinely face: a victim with a troubled background; a he-said, she-said story.
With an experienced sex crimes prosecutor, an official in the office said, “some of these very things that have come up, or even some things that might have come up during deeper examination by people who were experienced in this, might have come up faster.”