Strauss-Khan case collapsing; dirty tricks?

[RedSquare]

http://www.algemeiner.com/2011/07/01/strauss-kahn-case-collapsing/

I am the only one who thinks that it's suspicious that a case against a multi-millionaire and possible candidate for the presidency of France (on behalf of the so-called French Socialist Party) is now collapsing due to the digging up of allegations and incidences from the past of the victim, a poor, 32 year old West African immigrant, a woman, hired to clean his $3,000 per night hotel room?

Is this character assassination at work? Remember, the facts of the case are still the same facts, supported by the same witnesses. Maybe I'm just too suspicious, what do others think?


On May 14, 2011, Strauss-Kahn was arrested and charged with the sexual assault and attempted rape of a housekeeper at the Sofitel New York Hotel in Manhattan earlier that day. After calling the hotel and asking them to bring his missing cell phone to the airport, he was met by police and taken from his Paris-bound flight at New York City's John F. Kennedy International Airport minutes before takeoff and was later charged on several counts of sexual assault plus unlawful imprisonment. Strauss-Kahn was accused of four felony charges - two of criminal sexual acts (forcing the housekeeper to perform oral sex on him), one of attempted rape and one of sexual abuse - plus three misdemeanour offences, including unlawful imprisonment.


The U.S. State Department determined that Strauss-Kahn does not have diplomatic immunity. Strauss-Kahn appeared in court on May 16. During the proceedings the prosecution stated that the housekeeper, who is an immigrant from the West African state of Guinea had provided a detailed account of the alleged assault, had picked Strauss-Kahn out of a lineup, and that DNA evidence recovered at the site was being tested.


Strauss-Kahn, who had earlier agreed to a forensic examination, pleaded not guilty. The judge detained him without bail pending the grand jury investigation.


Strauss-Kahn hired New York lawyer Benjamin Brafman to represent him.He was reported as having sought public relations advice from a Washington-based consulting firm. His defense team hired a private detective agency to investigate the housekeeper's past.

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Dominique_Strauss-Kahn_sexual_assault_case

[Jose Gracchus]

Yup. Black? Check. Immigrant? Check. Woman? Check. Poor? Check. Why not have a story of vague supposition and accusations...I mean she's accusing the head of the IMF, a French presidential candidate. Such imprudence.

[Sasha]

how dare you to imply such things, if this was an rich white woman accusing an poor black man ofcourse the supposed "victim" there would have her phone tapped too :rolleyes:

[Sun at Eight]

That was my immediate mental response looking at DSK's smug mug on the BBC homepage next to that headline. "You fucking rapist, how much shit did you and your defence do to get to this - her life is going to be totally ruined, isn't it?"

[S.Artesian]

No you are not alone. As we say here in the US, "The fix is in."

Yes her life will be ruined.

And this motherfucker DSK will star in Polanski's film biography "My Life."

[JustMovement]

I dont understand this at all.

So far there has been 0 new evidence suggesting that she hasnt been raped right? The new "evidence" is just that she might have been involved in some dodgy dealings in the past. And for that he is going to be acquitted for very possibly raping someone. Jesus Im usually the first to defend the presumption of innocence, but thsi is such a fucking sham.

[W1N5T0N]

Accuse a man of any assault, and his name is stained forever. It does not matter if it happened or not or under what circumstances. Take Assange...Zilch evidence, some bogus charges...and it was a good argument for the right-wingers to attack him.

[Vladimir Innit Lenin]

I don't think a thread full of presumptions is really all that helpful.

For what it's worth, we may as well wait until the evidence (or lack of) comes out, before we start making judgements.

[S.Artesian]

I don't think a thread full of presumptions is really all that helpful.

For what it's worth, we may as well wait until the evidence (or lack of) comes out, before we start making judgements.


Presuming that the evidence will ever be produced by the prosecution. There's no presumption here. This is the US. Money talks and bullshit is a marathon jogger. DSK's got the money. Like Polanski did. Like Kobe Bryant. Like OJ. Like.... like way too many.

[Tabarnack]

The 32-year-old immigrant woman from Guinea who alleged she had been raped by Strauss-Kahn May 14 made a phone call less than a day later to a man in jail on drug charges, discussing how she could “cash in” on the case, as the Daily News put it.

The Times account reads: “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.

The Times reported that the jailed man was one of several people who had made cash deposits totalling more than $100,000 into the woman’s bank account over the last two years in Arizona, Georgia, New York and Pennsylvania. She is a low-paid hotel maid with two children who would have been in no position to obtain such sums through her employment at Sofitel in Manhattan, where the encounter with Strauss-Kahn took place.

The press reports also detail previous lies by the woman, including in her application for asylum after entering the United States, when she claimed to be a victim of gang rape in Guinea, the former French colony in West Africa where she was born.

NBC News reported that investigators had determined that in the application “she lied extensively, including information about a claim of having been raped.” Prosecutors told the network she had described the story of being raped in Guinea “in a believable way,” then later admitted that “she lied to them…and on the application about the whole rape claim.”

The apparent collapse of the case against Strauss-Kahn is a devastating exposure of the politically motivated media frenzy that followed his arrest. This was led by the New York Times, which featured columns by Maureen Dowd, Stephen Clarke and Jim Dwyer pouring contempt on such quaint notions as “innocent until proven guilty,” and then a long New York Times Magazine article by Bill Keller, the outgoing executive editor of the newspaper, denouncing as a “conspiracy theory” any suggestion that Strauss-Kahn could have been the target of a politically motivated frame-up.

It is not yet possible to determine whether the encounter with the hotel maid was a deliberate set-up, as many supporters of Strauss-Kahn in France have suggested. But the time sequence from his arrest onward makes it clear that, at a minimum, the case was manipulated to accomplish political goals.

Strauss-Kahn was arrested May 14, but within a day, i.e., sometime on May 15, police and prosecutors were aware that the complaining witness was in discussions with a jailed drug trafficker about how she could profit from the hugely publicized rape case. Yet they pushed ahead with the case as though it were rock-solid.

Under the pressure of criminal prosecution and a media frenzy, Strauss-Kahn resigned as managing director of the IMF on May 19. He had to abandon his expected political course—returning to France during the summer and launching a campaign for the presidency, where he was the favourite for the Socialist Party nomination and the early leader in polls matching him against the unpopular right-wing incumbent Nicolas Sarkozy.

It seems likely that the New York district attorney’s office proceeded aggressively with the case, despite having a clear warning of the unreliability of its sole witness, in order to force Strauss-Kahn to give up his position at the IMF and torpedo his political plans in France. Over previous months, the Obama administration had expressed frustration with Strauss-Kahn’s stewardship of the IMF, including his reluctance to back Washington’s drive to isolate China and cast it as a “currency manipulator” because it was resisting US demands that it sharply revalue its currency.

Excerpts from "New York rape case against former IMF chief collapses" wsws org

[S.Artesian]

Except, maybe the setup is going the other way-- maybe all this "information" about the maid has been manufactured by the private detectives and PR firms our poor little aggrieved DSK was able to employ.

Oh yeah, let's concentrate on the previous "history" of the accuser-- but not the accused who tried to rape the daughter of a colleague, who forced a subordinate into a sexual relationship with himself, who was well known among his class for groping women at parties.

Come on, next we'll find out that the woman, because she's a Moslem, is actually an Al Qaeda agent, and she'll be sent to Gitmo.

[PhoenixAsh]

here: http://www.revleft.com/vb/strauss-kahn-case-t157382/index.html

THe victim is already under attack.

[PhoenixAsh]

whom ever thinks a rich guy gets a FAIR sentence should read this post:

http://www.revleft.com/vb/showpost.php?p=2162225&postcount=383