MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
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Head of IMF Strauss-Kahn in Custody for Alleged Sexual Assault
By miguelitoh2o on Sun, 05/15/2011 - 12:15am |Who knows the truth of this? Word on the street is that he is sexually overt. The quips about bankers and rape are to easy to be put forth here. As of 10 PM he has not been charged.
A law enforcement official said Dominique Strauss-Kahn, head of the International Monetary Fund, was taken into police custody after being removed from an airplane at Kennedy Airport.
According to the official, Mr. Strauss-Kahn allegedly forced a cleaning woman onto his bed and sexually assaulted her at around 1 p.m. Saturday inside his room at the Sofitel Hotel near Times Square.
Dominique Strauss-Khan, head of the International Monetary Fund, is questioned in the U.S. over an alleged sexual assault on a hotel maid. Video courtesy of Reuters.
Mr. Strauss-Kahn allegedly allowed the woman to leave and then departed for the airport, the official said.
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He was the leading contender to win the next French election. This headline is like somethimg out of a pulp spy novel.
by Saladin on Sun, 05/15/2011 - 3:39am
Hope it's not true; I'd just been reading that he was helping to change the IMF's direction, and warning that income and wealth disparity and joblessness needed to be addressed globally.
"Just as we managed to tame inflation in the 1980s,
this decade should be the one that takes full employment seriously once
again. To combat growing inequality, Strauss-Kahn emphasized the
importance of ?strong social safety nets combined with progressive taxation,
? investment in health and education, and collective bargaining rights ?
especially in an environment of stagnating real wages. He spoke of the
joint work that the IMF has undertaken with the ILO in the past year and
said that employment and equity are the building blocks of stability and
prosperity, which go to the heart of the IMF's mandate."
Pretty different than what the old IMF was pushing.
by we are stardust on Sun, 05/15/2011 - 10:52am
Yeah, not that it excuses such behavior, but between that, and Saladin's point above, it raises the possibility of someone setting him up for political or economic reasons.
by miguelitoh2o on Sun, 05/15/2011 - 11:51am
Sarkozy comes to mind. He got rid of Villepin - his main competition on the right - by some pretty dirty tricks (cf. Clearstream trial). But then the banks also come to mind - a sort of upgraded Spitzer honey trap.
by Obey on Sun, 05/15/2011 - 12:19pm
Yeah, I almost mentioned Spitzer in my comment, even though there was a paper trail from his bank records leading to the prosecution, one wonders why/who in the bank triggered that particular investigation, (given that I've transferred similar amounts as did Spitzer from my own accounts, and it never resulted in a federal investigation of myself).
by miguelitoh2o on Sun, 05/15/2011 - 12:35pm
There were some stories about connections between GOPers and the prostitute, but I can't remember the details, nor vouch for their veracity. It's a damn shame though, Spitzer would have been useful in a real job post '08...
by Obey on Sun, 05/15/2011 - 1:00pm
"...it raises the possibility of someone setting him up..."
Good thing you kept that "someone" as a singular person. Two or more and you would be suggesting a conspiracy and be banished to whaco-land where people wonder about the charges against Assange and Scott Ritter [young boys if I remember correctly] and others who annoy so many powerful people.
by A Guy Called LULU on Sun, 05/15/2011 - 1:09pm
I was trying to remember the Client 9 you lent us, Lulu. Google, and found this in a review:
“Client 9″ follows Spitzer’s meteoric rise, starting with his extremely productive years as New York State attorney general. His bold tactics consistently produced the results he wanted. However, his tough talk and harsh prosecutions also made a distressing number of powerful enemies — Ken Langone of Bank of America, Hank Greenberg of AIG and John Whitehead of Goldman Sachs — just to name a few. When he was elected governor, he made another enemy in Joe Bruno, the Republican majority leader of the state Senate."
I believe it. Plus the film actually went to great lengths to portray him as an er...egocentric asshole. Plus I hate the tar outta Hank Greenberg. ;o)
by we are stardust on Sun, 05/15/2011 - 1:14pm
Yeah, the problem with conspiracies is that they're so hard to prove, not that they don't exist.
by miguelitoh2o on Sun, 05/15/2011 - 1:16pm
It seems Strauss-Kahn is well known for this sort of thing, This from Gideon Rachman:
This time he zigged when he should have zagged.
by David Seaton on Sun, 05/15/2011 - 4:43pm
Yes, I was aware of his reputation, although I think it's kind of a large leap to assume he morphed beyond this reputation to being a rapist. It will be interesting to see how it plays out. I suspect his political career will not likely survive the scandal regardless of the outcome of a court case.
by miguelitoh2o on Sun, 05/15/2011 - 9:33pm
Looked at the comments list on the news item at Naked Capitalism; out of 98, about 94 declared him guilty; wow. One commenter left this link from an alleged assault in 2008. Beats me.
by we are stardust on Sun, 05/15/2011 - 6:12pm
Well, that "beats me" echoes my opening line in this news post, ("Who knows the truth of this?"). I still will withold judgement as it seems like a stretch from an affair with a subordinate to the alleged incident in NYC. do you think there could be significance to the fact that both of these sexual "incidents" involving the senior Socialist Party member were exposed in the US?
by miguelitoh2o on Sun, 05/15/2011 - 9:39pm
I guess running off to the airport to leave the country isn't the best way to handle the situation, anyone in his position must be aware that he could be accused of abuse by any woman he was alone with in his 3k a night suite for even 5 minutes, he seemed to leave in an awfully big hurry.
by NCD on Sun, 05/15/2011 - 10:09pm