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Update: DSK Now In Police Custody; IMF Head Dragged Off A Plane, Arrested Following Hotel Maid Allegations Of Forced Head
Update 2: DSK is now in police custody:
IMF Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn was taken into custody on Saturday at JFK airport in New York and was being questioned in regard to a sexual assault, a New York police spokesman told Reuters.
Spokesman Paul Browne said the woman who filed the complaint against Strauss-Kahn, 62, was a 32-year-old chambermaid who fled the room after the incident.
Strauss-Kahn, a possible Socialist candidate in the French presidential election next April, left the hotel after the incident and boarded an Air France aircraft scheduled to depart for Paris, the police spokesman said.
"The NYPD realized he had fled, he had left his cell phone behind," Browne said. "We learned he was on an Air France plane. They held the plane and he was taken off and is now being held in police custody for questioning."
Browne said Strauss-Kahn had not been charged.
Police said the alleged incident took place at the upscale Sofitel hotel on West 44th Street near Times Square.
The chambermaid "was brought by EMS (emergency medical services) to the Roosevelt Hotel, where she was treated for minor injuries," Brown said.
Strauss-Kahn took over the International Monetary Fund in November 2007. Before that, he was a member of the French National Assembly and a professor of economics at the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris.
The IMF declined to comment and board officials said they had not been informed officially of the incident.
In October 2008, Strauss-Kahn apologized for "an error of judgment" in an affair with a subordinate, but denied he had abused his position.
Strauss-Kahn apologized to employees, the woman he had the affair with, Piroska Nagy, and his wife, French television personality Anne Sinclair, for the trouble it had caused.
Update 1: Strauss Khan to be taken to Police Service Area 5 at 221 East 123rd Street
If there was any threat that the IMF would launch an SDR alternative to the USD, it is all over now. According to the NYPost, IMF head Dominique Strauss-Khan (no Bob Pisani, it is not a she) was just arrested on board the first class cabin (thank you taxpayers) of a New York-Paris flight as it was about to take off. And here is where the story gets surreal: "Around noon today, a maid at the hotel [the Sofitel by Times Square] knocked on the door of Strauss-Khan’s room. After letting the maid in, Strauss-Khan allegedly threw the maid on the room’s bed and forced her to perform oral sex on him, said police sources. Strauss-Khan let the maid leave — and soon afterward, headed off to Kennedy Airport for his flight to Paris." Of course this will not be the first sexual misconduct for the head of the world's global pseudo bail out organization: as a reminder back in 2008 the IMF hired a law firm to investigate whether its chief had an improper relationship with a female employee, Piroska Nagy. Back then he got off. This time he won't (even though he did... in a way), and it appears that the IMF is about to lose its head, meaning the fate of literally unlimited bailout funding is now up in the air. Also, it appears that being head of major bureaucracy does not automatically mean getting head on an ad hoc, and involuntary basis. Lastly, we are stunned it was not Herman Von Rompuy or G-Pap on the receiving end.
More from the Post:
His arrest tonight could force him to postpone a planned meeting in Berlin on Sunday with German chancellor Angela Merkel.
Strauss-Khan, a leader of France’s Socialist Party, is the leading rival to President Nicholas Sarkozy in the 2012 election.
Sarkozy was said in a news report yesterday to have begun a smear campaign against his rival that focused on his lavish lifestyle — including Strauss-Khan’s purchase of suits from the same tailor who clothes President Obama.
But Strauss-Khan seems able to find trouble on his own. In 2008, he publicly admitted to "an error of judgment" for having an affair with an IMF subordinate.
In France’s 2007 vote, Strauss-Khan lost the Socialist Party nomination to Segolene Royal, who in turn fell to defeat against Sarkozy, leader of the right-wing Union for a Popular Movement.
But Sarkozy, who still sees Strauss-Khan as his likeliest electoral rival, is believed in France to have maneuvered him out of France by backing him to head the Washington-based International Monetary Fund.
Strauss-Khan is married to New York-born Anne Sinclair, a leading French TV journalist.
Naturally, being in charge of the IMF requires one to be not only a sexual deviant, but a thief:
[Strauss-Khan] was Minister of Economy and Finance from 1997 to 1999, when he resigned to battle charges he was paid for consulting work he never did. But judges decided he really did the work, and prosecutors were forced to admit they had no evidence of fraudulent motive.
Next up: we expect a letter from the IMF disclosing how the world will end if charges are pursued and if, heaven forbid, the IMF head is thrown in jail.
In the meantime, the website of the Smoking Gun must be on fire with one million bored Burssels bureaucrats awaiting the release of the IMF head's mugshot.
Lastly, here is an advance preview of the statement to be released by the IMF head (no pun intended): "If questioned about this matter in the future, I will simply refer the questioner back to this release."
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If it is a smear campaign then it is already working well. My girlfriend who did not know who DSK was until this morning, already thinks he is guilty. We have all seemingly forgotten that a person is innocent until proven guilty and in this case as with Assange the evidence seems somewhat circumstancial.
Consider for example that simply because you happen to have hired a room does not mean that you are automatically the person who is in it when the chambermaid comes in.
Ask yourself what is a busy, driven, high ranking CEO running one of the worlds most powerful institutions doing in a bathrobe at one in the afternoon, when your average A person of his kind is up at 6 AM
Consider that the idea that the head of the IMF can leave anything in a hurry is somewhat unlikely, since this is a man who will have an ontourage of secretaries and busybodies, he is also unlikely to be carrying a Samsonite carry-on in which to crease all those lovely suits. Perhaps in such a hurry the comment in the lobby might be "is that your Mont Blanc Mr Khan or are you just pleased to see me"
Consider that leaving your phone behind in a room does not automatically mean that you are running from something.
Consider that as with stocks the past is no gurantee of future performance. This smear tactic is also in the Assange script, the well known womanizer takes a step too far....
Most main news outlets will not speculate on the link between Khans announcement on SDR and his sudden arrest. Personally, I was quite suprised that DSK was so candid about his plans for new world currency, incidently nearly 3 months to the day.
Additionally, whilst the CEO of the IMF is out of the picture it is hard for Europe to make financial decisions on the likes of Greece and Spain. This will make the Europack look more unstable which is good for USD.
Perhaps this miniseries serves as a warning not fuck with US dollar hegemony or you too will become Bubba's cell bitch.
I think the charges will be dropped eventually on lack of evidence and there will be IMF regime change, Sarkozy will give thanks to Obama by comitting to the inevitable 4th front of the land offensive in Lybia in the next installment of "the oil wars".
and so it goes like the latter part of the Roman empire.
Good observation of yours. Stay sharp.
The question is always: Cui bono.
'Consider that leaving your phone behind in a room does not automatically mean that you are running from something.'
It wasn't a room, but a suite. One of the downsides of staying in palatial quarters is that your personal effects get strewn over living quarters the size of a house, full of furniture, tables, cabinets, shelves, drawers, walk-in closets, armoires and the like.
So it becomes very difficult to stay organized and collect it all when leaving in a hurry.
Now you know what people who run the world think of people who don't. Droit de Seigneur.
dieu et mon droit....but he forgot the sequel : "honni soit qui mal y pense!"
He took her garter and then he took her thigh...for the sequel read the police report!
"Yes officer, that is considered room service where I come from. Now I understand that that is not the way to get ahead. Can I pay the fine and continue to destroy Europe now."
I suspect he carries an "Official" passport and not "Diplomatic". He's IMF, not French Embassy or United Nations. If so, there is no immunity. Also, even if he has it, someone must claim immunity for him, and in an instance of possible sexual assault, it would be difficult to do so unless there was significant evidence indicating a set-up or a complete lack of credibility on the part of the accuser. Diplomatic immunity is not a license to rape, pillage and steal. (That is what elected office is for.)
If this case---assuming good case is made---does not go to trial, that in and of itself will be prima facie evidence of elite favoritism and privilege.
If it goes to trial, jury selection will be interesting, and no doubt at least one lucky juror is going to get a book deal.
DSK is clearly expendable. The politics and scheming at the highest levels must be a wonder to behold.
DSK is clearly expendable.
Or he pissed somebody off. Maybe he hit on on of the daughters of the tptb. Maybe he knows too much and isn't discreet.
Doing what these these criminals do best - forcing in-falatio-n on the unsuspecting public.
Google "the economy when capital is nowhere in sight"
A great read for progressives and socialists.
I read counterpunch huffington, etc.
You socialists and putative progressives ought to know a little about the other side of the argument.
A treatise on haiti.
Thought provoking article. Thanks. Link:
when the presidential palace collapsed in the recent earthquake, crowds gathered outside to cheer and cheer!
Where is the wealth?...why is wealth not happening?
And this is the very reason for the persistence of poverty, which, after all, is the natural condition of mankind.
...there are no good guys. The system itself is owned by the state and rooted in evil...
Now, to be sure, there are plenty of Americans who are firmly convinced that we would all be better off if we grew our own food, bought only locally, kept firms small, eschewed modern conveniences like home appliances, went back to using only natural products, expropriated wealthy savers, harassed the capitalistic class until it felt itself unwelcome and vanished. This paradise has a name, and it is Haiti.
http://www.marketoracle.co.uk/Article28081.html
First, the entertainment value of this is going to be incredibly high.
Second, if she gets a half way decent attorney she's going to get every Euro he owns, there's no way in the world a rich french jew banker is going to throw his fate into the hands of a Manhattan jury. The toughest challenge will be tracking down all his assets.
Even if it was a set up he should be should get a lifetime sentence at Devils Island for stupidity.
What is the Head of the IMF doing in a 3000 dollar per night suite? I thought we were in a recession and the PTB go around preaching that we need to stay within a budget! F'this coot needs to be fired.
Yea, That would do it. Firing the worker and the practice is stopped. And the mindset behind it too?
Seems to me a setup would be simple enough to engineer. If the target has certain proclivities, they can be exploited.
Say DSK calls for a hooker; he wants one in a maid outfit, and she is to "resist" his advances. His call is intercepted, said hooker is delayed en route and an unsuspecting hotel employee is "mistakenly" sent in in her stead to clean what she is told is an empty room. The inevitable occurs, and the deniability is plausible.
People are fungible, just like Mr Rumsfeld said.
Special treatment starting.
He was arrested at Kennedy airport in Queens after fleeing the hotel on 44th street but he's being held at a Public Housing precint office in north Manhattan? PSA 5 Housing Bureau is his current address! Why would someone accused of a sex crime be taken to a Public Housing office? Housing
Great France has all these men who just cannot keep their pants zippered. Sarkozy, Kahn...ha ha land of f*cks and pricks.
For once he wasn't sodomizing capitalists.
OMG.....705 comments.
Clearly I have nothing to add....
Finally caught the crooks....standing next to the cop car.
In the WhiteHouse effort to contain the erupting DKS news. We expect photo from the situation room where a confused and frustrated Barama will announce "I got him". Elite WH ObamaCare staffers to decide if public is worthy of photo evidence. The pics in question show the room, the bed and maids uniform. In mop-up-sy-ops authorities say that the said maid uniform is missing.
Strauss-Kahn was appearing to be a formidable challenge to Sarkozy, how difficult would it be for someone like Sarkozy knowing S-K foibles to put a couple pieces of ass on the French owned Sofitel roster and just have them shake their tail feathers for him until he jumps, voila, no more competitor. Just promise the girls first class representation and a chance for a real big payoff, no need to get overly complicated. Not just Sarkozy, I'm sure S-K has PLENY of enemies, Le Pen would do it just for principles!
The Globe and Mail (Canada) reported that he was staying in a $3,000 a night suite. Austerity for some bitchez and not for others I suppose.
+++ a muthfuggin 1000, Zero Guv!
We're ALL the maid. Some of us just don't know it.
Hopefully this dude has some oddities in this area of his anatomy (ala Michael Jackson) that the chambermaid can describe for the world. Next, does the gal have teeth? geez - if you're gonna be forced, leave a trail on the dude the dentist can verify - best to be beat unconscious if someone's doing something to you you don't want to remember but teethmarks like diamonds, are forever. hahaha Love the reference to referring back to this "release" for questions. ...reminds me of the Wikileak dude's alleged amorous dealings -- wiki-LEAK! hahahaha
A little slimy DNA will do just fine... ala Monica.
She might have pretended to swallow, and spit it in a glad wrap baggy later.
Lastly, we are stunned it was not Herman Von Rompuy or G-Pap on the receiving end.
+ 1
Diplomatic immunity, bitchez.
"If there was any threat that the IMF would launch an SDR alternative to the USD, it is all over now. "
Or ... "chambermaid" found to have less than arms length connections to the already disfavored Federal Reserve, DSK exonerated - angry "international" public demands new [SDR] reserve currency.
Just a thought, and I'm probably not the first to have it.
18 black guys on an 11-year old Hispanic girl.
http://abcnews.go.com/US/gang-rape-charges-18-men-sparks-racial-tensions/story?id=13095476
MSM won't talk it up like this cowboy....
Did you not notice that ABC news was the link you give?
What link? That story never happened.
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frenchman+socialist=mega-assh*le
If having an affair is a "serious error of judgment", I wonder; assuming he is guilty, how he will conceal attempted rape?
EURO DREAD
IMF head
caught dead
turned red
"a set-up" he said,
after forced head
on the edge of the bed.
enough said.
And here is an animation telling you what you can do to stick it to the banksters:
http://thesilvergoldhedge.blogspot.com/2011/05/join-sla-to-get-even-and-...
Please define,"sexual relations."
I would think that this was a sexual game he has played before, the difference being that this time the real maid showed up before the escort service "maid" arrived - the universe is bizarrely humorous at times...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ct4sVVqeoUE
Talk about an "oh, shit" moment... - sorry Charlie, but you be gett'n some good luvin', sugar pie, at the Attica Hilton...
Without a gun or a knife how do you force a maid to pleasure you orally ? "Just say no !"....Nancy Reagan ! Bite it off ? This is beyond Monedas' vast experience and world view ! Monedas 2011 Having more fun than your average hoarder should have !
Maybe he ordered "room service" prior to his take-off
Not surprising this happened-- the way the IMF imposes itself upon victim nations with sinister economic policy only to rape and pillage the most productive parts of a country is akin to this situation.
Click below to read if DSK was set up--as he claimed he would be--in response to his outspoken policies against the dollar and Fed: http://thesilvergoldhedge.blogspot.com/2011/05/sdk-had-dollar-banksers-a...