December 31, 2011
What Really Happened to Strauss-Kahn?
Edward Jay Epstein in the New York Review of Books:
May 14, 2011, was a horrendous day for Dominique Strauss-Kahn, then head of the International Monetary Fund and leading contender to unseat Nicolas Sarkozy as president of France in the April 2012 elections. Waking up in the presidential suite of the Sofitel New York hotel that morning, he was supposed to be soon enroute to Paris and then to Berlin where he had a meeting the following day with German Chancellor Angela Merkel. He could not have known that by late afternoon he would, instead, be imprisoned in New York on a charge of sexual assault. He would then be indicted by a grand jury on seven counts of attempted rape, sexual assault, and unlawful imprisonment, placed under house arrest for over a month, and, two weeks before all the charges were dismissed by the prosecutor on August 23, 2011, sued for sexual abuse by the alleged victim.
He knew he had a serious problem with one of his BlackBerry cell phones—which he called his IMF BlackBerry. This was the phone he used to send and receive texts and e-mails—including for both personal and IMF business. According to several sources who are close to DSK, he had received a text message that morning from Paris from a woman friend temporarily working as a researcher at the Paris offices of the UMP, Sarkozy’s center-right political party. She warned DSK, who was then pulling ahead of Sarkozy in the polls, that at least one private e-mail he had recently sent from his BlackBerry to his wife, Anne Sinclair, had been read at the UMP offices in Paris.
More here.
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Comments
Sadly, I had hung, drawn and quartered DSK, especially in view of his somewhat blemished personal history. But the article reminded me, as a Kiwi d'un certain age, I remember the Rainbow Warrior. Thanks for the reminder to keep an open mind.
Posted by: mikhail51 | Jan 1, 2012 3:46:44 AM
Let's just remember that, in spite of all the exotic apps they have on phones nowadays, a hacked BlackBerry doesn't get a chap's sperm into a lass' vagina all by itself.
Posted by: aguy109 | Jan 1, 2012 5:34:36 PM
If anyone still needed convincing, this article should convince them that this whole episode was a set up from the beginning all the while aided by the propensity for sex by DSK. Why did not the officials investigate questions about the room 2820?
The point is they evidently did and or knew what transpired there, and covered it up.
DSK fell into a trap set for him. But that trap likely was directed from high levels possibly even with the cooperation of the NY officials.
This shows how easy it is for powerful police departments and powerful employers with plenty of money and resources to set up anyone. This happens all the time with the failed war on drugs. After all, the authorities have plenty of drugs and resources to set victims up with don't they?
DSK should sue the NY police department and the Hotel for $ 1 billion.
And where is the lying accuser today? How much money was she paid for this "days work" and by whom was it paid? Why has not she been deported and why was this piece of garbage allowed into the U.S. in the first place?
Posted by: WJAbbe | Jan 2, 2012 5:42:09 AM
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