Ever notice that international finance and central banks always attract the most vile scum?
"Director of IMF accused of sex assault in New York" by Al Baker and Steve Erlanger, New York Times / May 15, 2011
NEW YORK — The managing director of the International Monetary Fund, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, was taken off a plane at Kennedy International Airport minutes before it was to take off for Paris yesterday and arrested in connection with the sexual attack of a maid at a Manhattan hotel, the authorities said.
Strauss-Kahn, 62, who was widely expected to become the Socialist candidate for the French presidency, was apprehended by detectives of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey in the first-class section of the Air France jetliner and immediately turned over to detectives from the Manhattan Special Victims squad, officials said....
A real-life SVU!
His detention came about 4:40 p.m., when two Port Authority detectives boarded Air France Flight 23, as the plane idled on the tarmac, said John P.L. Kelly, a spokesman for the agency.
“It was 10 minutes before its scheduled departure,’’ Kelly said. “They were just about to close the doors.’’
The Port Authority officers were acting on information from the New York Police Department, whose detectives had been investigating the assault of a female employee of the Sofitel New York in the heart of the theater district....
My printed copy says brutal attack.
The web expanded on my print copy:
Strauss-Khan’s time at the bank was tarnished in 2008 by an affair with a Hungarian economist who was a subordinate at the bank. The fund decided to stand by him despite concluding that he had shown poor judgment in conducting the affair. Strauss-Kahn issued an apology to employees at the bank and his wife, Anne Sinclair, a US-born French television journalist.
In the New York case, Browne said, the chambermaid entered Strauss-Kahn’s suite at about 1 p.m. to clean it. Browne said the suite, which cost $3,000 a night, had a foyer, a living room and a bedroom.
As she was in the foyer, “he came out of the bathroom, fully naked, and attempted to sexually assault her,’’ New York Police Department spokesman Paul J. Browne said. “He grabs her, according to her account, and pulls her into the bedroom and onto the bed,’’ Browne added. He locked the door to the suite, Browne said.
“She fights him off and he then drags her down the hallway to the bathroom, where he sexually assaults her a second time,’’ Browne added.
The woman broke free, Browne said, and “she fled, reported it to other hotel personnel, who called 911.
Browne said Strauss-Kahn appeared to have left in a hurry. Investigators found his cellphone in the room, which he had left behind, and one law enforcement official said that investigation in the hotel room uncovered evidence that would contain DNA....
No matter the outcome of the arrest, it will likely throw the French political world into turmoil and the Socialist Party into confusion.
Strauss-Kahn, a leading member of the party, has been considered the front-runner for the next presidential election in France in May 2012. Opinion polls have shown him to be the Socialists’ most popular candidate and running well ahead of the incumbent, Nicolas Sarkozy, who leads the center-right party.
I just find the discussion of politics disgusting when a woman has been brutally attacked.
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"IMF chief denies sex assault; Charges could destroy his future in French politics" May 16, 2011|By Colleen Long and Angela Charlton, Associated Press
What did I just type?
NEW YORK — Dominique Strauss-Kahn’s reputation with women was well known in France, and not even an affair with a subordinate could knock the International Monetary Fund leader off a political path pointed in the direction of the French presidency.
All that changed over the weekend with charges that he sexually assaulted a maid in his hotel room, a case that generated shock and revulsion, especially in his home country....
Unless the charges are quickly dropped, they could destroy his chances in a presidential race in France that is just starting to heat up....
Excuse me. I need to hit the head and pray to the porcelain God for a moment.
The IMF named an acting leader and said it remains “fully functioning and operational.’’
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The organization’s deputy managing director, John Lipsky, was named acting managing director. Lipsky is a former US Treasury executive and former banker at JP Morgan.
Strauss-Kahn, 62, was arrested less than four hours after the alleged assault Saturday, plucked from first class on a Paris-bound Air France flight that was just about to leave the gate at John F. Kennedy International Airport....
I bet he was shocked!
“I do not believe for one second the accusations brought against my husband. I have no doubt his innocence will be established,’’ said Sinclair, a New York-born journalist who hosted a popular weekly news broadcast in France in the 1980s.
It saddens me that some women accept such conduct because of money and power.
In 2008, Strauss-Kahn was briefly investigated over whether he had an improper relationship with a subordinate female employee. The IMF board found that the relationship was consensual, but called his actions “regrettable’’ and said they “reflected a serious error of judgment.’’
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More expansion:
"Lawyer: IMF chief denies NYC sex-assault charges" by Colleen Long, Associated Press / May 15, 2011
NEW YORK— It wasn't clear why Strauss-Kahn was in New York. The IMF is based in Washington, and he was due in Germany on Sunday. His attorney declined to answer questions beyond saying his client denied the charges....
The accusations come amid French media reports about Strauss-Kahn's lifestyle, including luxury cars and suits, that some have dubbed a smear campaign.
The married father of four is known as DSK in France, but media there also have dubbed him "the great seducer." His reputation as a charmer of women has not hurt his career in France, where politicians' private lives traditionally come under less scrutiny than in the United States....
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"In France, disbelief over fund leader’s fall; Many saw him as next president" May 16, 2011|By Angela Charlton, Associated Press
PARIS — Allegations of sexual assault in a New York hotel have savaged the reputation of the suave and self-assured Dominique Strauss-Kahn, chief of the International Monetary Fund, and torn France’s presidential race asunder.
Strauss-Kahn, 62, has topped French opinion polls for months as the man most likely to become this nation’s next president, consistently outshining the little-loved conservative incumbent, Nicolas Sarkozy.
Think Sarkozy's attack on the unions and French social programs have something to do with it (like an IMF man is going to change things)?
Yesterday, Strauss-Kahn’s allies and rivals alike were shocked by the news that he was hauled off an Air France flight and arrested on charges of a criminal sex act, attempted rape, and unlawful imprisonment. In cafes and outdoor markets, French voters shared that disbelief.
I was not surprised at all and hardly shrugged.
For some, the arrest spells the end of the prominent Socialist’s presidential ambitions and even his political career.
Wait a minute. A SOCIALIST was the HEAD of the IMF?
The names of political parties mean about as much in Europe as they do in AmeriKa.
Backers cautioned that it is too early to judge a man who denies wrongdoing.
Not for me it isn't.
Others suggested it was a plot to blacken his name just as France’s presidential campaign heats up for the April 2012 first-round vote.
Look at the "conspiracy theorists" popping up!!
The arrest marks a striking fall from grace for a man who built up a formidable reputation as a problem solver and sharp negotiator as IMF chief during the global financial crisis. That reputation had reflected well on France, and many French voters were hoping he could bring it home with him next year....
Strauss-Kahn is known in France as “DSK’’ for his initials, but French media have also dubbed him “the great seducer.’’ His reputation as a charmer of women has not hurt his career in France, where politicians’ private lives traditionally come under less scrutiny than in the United States....
Yeah, he's a real hunk!
In 2007, Strauss-Kahn took over as head of the IMF, a 187-nation lending agency that provides emergency loans to countries facing severe financial problems.
Yeah, and then they demand strict austerity measures as part of repayment with interest. This is how you take down governments, dear readers.
The sexual assault charges came just as another French media furor was dying down, this one about Strauss-Kahn’s lifestyle, including luxury homes, cars, and suits. Supporters dubbed it a smear campaign.
Oh, he's ONE of them MONEY ADDICTS, 'eh?
French news organizations recently published photos of Strauss-Kahn and his wife, Anne Sinclair, a New York-born journalist, getting out of a $150,000 Porsche Panamera on a Paris street.
It turned out that the car belonged to a friend, but the photo focused attention on the couple’s lifestyle — including a $4 million house in Washington, two luxury apartments in Paris, and a vacation home in Marrakesh — and whether it was compatible with someone claiming to represent the Socialist Party.
Any foreclosure notices in the mail?
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Yeah, he's a Socialist, all right: a SOLD-OUT Socialist!
Same as the ones Greece elected a while back:
"Arrest of IMF chief clouds Greece talks; Eurozone won’t delay meeting on aid increase" May 16, 2011|Associated Press
BERLIN — The arrest of International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn complicates a key European meeting on whether to give Greece billions more in aid, but specialists say one man’s troubles will not keep the 17 nations from trying to contain a debt crisis that threatens them all.
I find it stunning that the bankers f***ed the globalist project.
Eurozone financial leaders are to discuss Greece’s deteriorating economy today in Brussels. Key questions include what conditions to attach to additional aid, with European leaders unhappy about what they see as limited Greek efforts to raise money by selling government property....
Many investors believe Greece’s financial troubles are so overwhelming that a Greek default or a restructuring that would give creditors less than the full value of their bonds is inevitable.
And that REALLY PISSES OFF CERTAIN PEOPLE who are ALWAYS FIRST IN LINE for LOOT!
But that would be a serious blow to the euro, and eurozone governments and the European Central Bank appear determined to prevent it.
A $111 billion bailout for Portugal was also on the agenda for today’s meeting in Brussels, as is Ireland’s progress in dealing with the financial morass that led to its EU-IMF bailout.
In Spain, meanwhile, tens of thousands of students, social groups, and unemployed Spaniards rallied in more than 50 cities yesterday to protest government austerity measures.
And yet it is LITERALLY BURIED in the BACK of the BUSINESS SECTION and ARTICLE, huh?
Yeah, the PEOPLE STANDING UP to the LYING, LOOTING BANKERS is to be MINIMIZED!!
That, to me, is a TOP STORY!!
Protesters in Madrid marched to city hall wearing T-shirts distributed by the Youth Without a Future group, founded in early April.
“We the unemployed, the badly paid, the subcontracted in precarious jobs, the youth of Spain, want change and a future with dignity,’’ said Ines Bajo, 24....
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Back to the vulgar vulture:
"No bail for IMF chief in sex assault case; NYC judge cites potential flight risk; similar attack alleged in France" by John Eligon, New York Times / May 17, 2011
NEW YORK — Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the leader of the International Monetary Fund, was ordered held without bail yesterday over allegations that he sexually assaulted a maid in a $3,000-a-night suite at a Manhattan hotel, as an allegation of another sexual attack by Strauss-Kahn emerged in France.
Prosecutors had asked Melissa C. Jackson, supervising judge of Manhattan Criminal Court, to remand Strauss-Kahn, 62, contending that he was a flight risk. They also indicated that a similar attack may have occurred.
“Some of this information include reports that he has in fact engaged in conduct similar to the conduct alleged in this complaint on at least one other occasion,’’ said John McConnell, an assistant district attorney, adding that the district attorney’s office was still investigating the other occasion, which occurred outside the United States.
A lawyer for 31-year-old French novelist Tristane Banon said in Paris that she probably will file a complaint alleging Strauss-Kahn sexually attacked her in 2002, the Associated Press reported.
So now it is a PATTERN, 'eh?
Banon first made a public accusation against Strauss-Kahn in a 2007 French television interview, saying he opened her bra and tried to unbutton her jeans during an attempt to rape her. She has voluntarily gone public with her account of the attack, the AP said.
David Koubbi, a lawyer for Banon, told French radio RTL that she didn’t make her assault allegation against Strauss-Kahn earlier because of “pressures’’ but would do so now because “she knows she’ll be taken seriously.’’
Banon’s mother, Anne Mansouret, a regional Socialist official in Normandy, said she had advised her daughter at the time against pursuing her allegation....
Then the wall went up.
Strauss-Kahn, who is married with four children, has long had a reputation for making sexual approaches to other women.
Then his wife is blind.
Three years ago, he found himself clinging to his IMF job after its board chastised him for having an affair with a married subordinate.
So the IMF knew, huh?
In response to the accusations, he has said only that he has a passion for women, and made vague promises to behave better....
Promises, promises.
Hope you can make it over the wall, dear readers:
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Also see:
IMF chief’s double standard
Arrest may cloud Europe’s debt talks
Call me grapes if you want, but I didn't consider them worth reading anyway (and I did a quick glance).
