This was the invisible ink (didn't make the printed paper) that alerted me:
"Assault case against Strauss-Kahn may be near collapse (By Jim Dwyer, William K. Rashbaum, and John Eligon, New York Times)
The expanded web story that never saw print:
"Strauss-Kahn free from house arrest; charges stand" by Jennifer Peltz and Tom Hays Associated Press / July 1, 2011
NEW YORK—Former IMF leader Dominique Strauss-Kahn walked out of court without bail and free from house arrest Friday after prosecutors acknowledged there were questions about the credibility of the hotel housekeeper who accused him of sexual assault....
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The 32-year-old hotel maid accused Strauss-Kahn of chasing her through his luxury suite in May, trying to pull down her pantyhose and forcing her to perform oral sex. Authorities have said they have forensic evidence of a sexual encounter, but defense lawyers have said it wasn't forced.
"It is a great relief," said Strauss-Kahn's attorney, William Taylor. "It is so important in this country that people, especially the media, refrain from judgment until the facts are all in."
After his arrest, Strauss-Kahn resigned from his post leading the International Monetary Fund and watched his presidential ambitions seemingly crumble.
The stark turn in the case came after the woman admitted to prosecutors she had made up a story of being gang raped and beaten in her homeland to enhance her application for political asylum, prosecutors said in a letter to defense lawyers.
Isn't that like embellishing on a job application?
She also misrepresented what she did after the alleged attack -- instead of fleeing to a hallway and waiting for a supervisor, she went to clean another room and then returned to clean Strauss-Kahn's suite before telling her supervisor that she had been attacked, prosecutors said.
She also misrepresented her income and claimed someone else's child as her own dependent on tax returns, they said.
The details speak to the maid's credibility and whether her story would stand up under oath in a prosecution that would rely heavily on her testimony.
Think of ALL the CASES the PROSECUTORS do NOT CARE ABOUT THAT!
You know, the PATSY PLOT FRAME-UPS and the DRUG INFORMANTS that take the STAND!!
Obviously there is a DIFFERENT STANDARD of JUSTICE for BANKERS!
The woman's attorney, Ken Thompson, fired back outside court, saying the district attorney's office was backing away from the case because it was too scared to prosecute it. He said she would come out in public to tell her story but didn't specify when.
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Caught on tape on a jail visit?
Thompson said the woman went to the district attorney with information that her asylum application was flawed, but that she exaggerated on it because she was scared she would be sent back to Guinea.
Illegals do that all the time and it really isn't much of a fuss.
He said she came to the U.S. because she was a victim of female genital mutilation, and she worried her daughter, now 15, would be victimized as well. He also said she had been raped by soldiers there, but that attack did not occur as it was written in her asylum application.
What lessons are to be drawn from this and the Duke case are simple: NEVER AGAIN is a woman to be believed who hollers wolf, 'er, rape.
Thompson did not back down on the seriousness of the charges, delivering intimate and specific details from her perspective on a violent attack, saying Strauss-Kahn bruised her vagina, tore a ligament in her shoulder and ripped her stockings....
Yeah, $ure.
Investigators have said they found traces of his semen on her uniform.
"From day one she has described a violent sexual assault that Dominique Strauss-Kahn committed against her," 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."
Thompson also referred to media reports that his client was involved with a drug dealer, calling them lies.
If it was in the AmeriKan media I wouldn't be a bit surprised.
The New York Times, quoting law enforcement officials it didn't name, reported that the woman was recorded on the phone with an incarcerated man around the day she made the allegations, discussing whether to press her case in court.
The newspaper said the man had been arrested on marijuana possession charges and had deposited cash in the woman's bank account.
"It is clear that this woman made some mistakes, but that doesn't mean she's not a rape victim," Thompson said.
Strauss-Kahn arrived at the courthouse Friday morning in a Lexus SUV and strode confidently up the granite steps with his wife, French journalist Anne Sinclair, at his side.
After the hearing, he slowly walked out the building with his arm on her shoulder, smiling at the throng gathered outside....
Prosecutors offered few details inside court on the turn in the case. Assistant district attorney Joan Illuzzi-Orbon said a further investigation caused them to reassess it....
New doubts about Strauss-Kahn's accuser would also revive speculation of a conspiracy against Strauss-Kahn aimed at torpedoing his presidential chances. Within days of his arrest, a poll suggested that a majority of French think Strauss-Kahn, who long had a reputation as a womanizer and was nicknamed "the great seducer," was the victim of a plot....
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You better cover up then:
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"Strauss-Kahn released from house arrest; Accuser's story has changed; prosecutors had little hope
July 02, 2011|By John Eligon, New York Times
NEW YORK - Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the former head of the International Monetary Fund accused of sexually assaulting a hotel housekeeper, was released from house arrest yesterday as the case against him moved closer to dismissal after prosecutors told a Manhattan judge that the credibility of his accuser was in serious question.
Prosecutors acknowledged that there were troubling revelations and glaring inconsistencies in various accounts given by the housekeeper, who accused Strauss-Kahn of trying to rape her in May. In a brief hearing at State Supreme Court in Manhattan, prosecutors did not oppose his release; the judge then freed Strauss-Kahn on his own recognizance.
The development represented a stunning reversal in a case that reshaped the French political landscape and sparked debate about morals, the treatment of women, and the US justice system. Prosecutors said that they still believed there was evidence to support the notion that Strauss-Kahn had forced the woman to perform oral sex, but that inconsistencies in her past and her account of the moments following the episode could make it extremely difficult to persuade jurors to believe her....
In a letter sent to Strauss-Kahn's lawyers and filed with Justice Michael J. Obus, prosecutors outlined some of what they had discovered about Strauss-Kahn's accuser, poking holes in her account and her background.
The housekeeper admitted that she had lied about what happened after the encounter on the 28th floor. She initially said that after she had been attacked she waited in a hallway until Strauss-Kahn left the room. She now admits that after the episode, she cleaned a nearby room, then returned to Strauss-Kahn's suite to clean there. Only after that did she report to her supervisor that she had been attacked.
What precisely occurred between the woman and Strauss-Kahn - whether it was an attack or a consensual encounter - remains known only to the woman and Strauss-Kahn.
He said, she said.
Prosecutors disclosed that the woman had admitted lying in her application for asylum from Guinea. According to their letter, she "fabricated the statement with the assistance of a male who provided her with a cassette recording" that she memorized.
Is that anything like forging a letter claiming Iraq was attempting to buy yellowcake uranium?
She also said that her claim that she had been the victim of a gang rape in Guinea was a lie.
The woman also acknowledged that she had misrepresented her income to qualify for her housing, and that she had declared a friend's child as a dependent on tax returns - in addition to her own daughter - to increase her refund.
Yeah, it's not like anyone has ever hid income from the U.S. government.
How are those UBS prosecutions going, anyway?
Thompson, the woman's lawyer, gave a lengthy retort outside the courtroom in which he conceded that there were problems with her credibility but maintained that she had still been the victim of an attack and that her version had never wavered.
Nope.
He said some evidence, like bruising she had sustained, was consistent with a nonconsensual encounter. And he said her decision to clean a room afterward was consistent with someone who was confused and upset.
"Our concern is that the Manhattan district attorney is too afraid to try this case," Thompson said. "We believe he's afraid he's going to lose this high-profile case."
The prosecutors have not completed their investigation, one official briefed on the matter said, and thus have not made a final determination whether the housekeeper was sexually assaulted. The woman's account of what happened has been consistent, the official said, aside from minor details of the kind that sometimes vary in the numerous retellings of the same story.
Nope. Can't believe her, can;t believe her, can't believe her.
Questions are sure to be raised about how swiftly and vigorously prosecutors proceeded with the case, as many in France questioned whether there was a rush to judgment....
Are you as sick of the slap in the face insults as me?
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"Second-guessing of DA grows as case falls apart; Prosecution of Strauss-Kahn is latest setback" by Alan Feuer, New York Times / July 3, 2011
NEW YORK - Cyrus R. Vance Jr., the Manhattan district attorney, seemed preoccupied when he sat down with two reporters last Monday. He already knew what the world would soon learn: His marquee prosecution - the sexual assault case against Dominique Strauss-Kahn - was falling apart.
Yeah, just forget about the evidence.
Privately, his aides had told him that they had discovered grave problems with the accuser’s credibility.
The interview began, but before Vance was asked a question, he offered an unsolicited defense - not just of the Strauss-Kahn case, but of his overall stewardship.
“Ultimately,’’ he said, “the success of a DA’s office - and of a DA - is measured not in individual cases, but over time.’’
“The cases you don’t read about,’’ he added, “define what the job of a DA really is.’’
And I won't be reading any more of this.
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Also see: In France, speculation on a political comeback for Strauss-Kahn
