This is great, reading the entire trial before it's even begun!

Only if DSK's lawyer is Baez.

Well, your post is the first I have read of this "publicly known fact".

Now, I'm sure there is an innocent explanation for all this, but I'd like to know where this "publicly known fact" came from, so that you don't surprise me with any additional "publicly known facts". I was going by the actual charges.

Trial lawyers know what pesky things those facts are. Especially when our own clients seem to misremember what happened.

Frankly, I'm rather doubtful that a forcible oral and anal rape is a proper subject for humor on this forum, and I find it difficult to believe some of the defenses of DSK presented in this thread could be anything other than jokes. Could we save this kind of shit for 4chan?

Benjamin Fulford, a conspiracy theorist who has access to ancient secret societies of the Orient, has the real scoop on Dominique Strauss-Kahn:

We were thinking so small.

I am not the DA, so if you are interested in discussing the facts of the case, observer to observer as we both are, you should look them up yourself rather than denying everything until someone proves you wrong (again). It took me about ten seconds to google multiple articles reporting that there were semen stains on her uniform, and that carpeting had been removed from the location of the oral sex incident because she spat there. Let me know if your googling fails to turn up a single one.

In the meantime, your accidental mouth-to-penis fall theory is literally laughable.

A minister in the French government has resigned, after two women brought sexual harassment claims against him. The women were apparently emboldened to act by DSK's arrest.

http://nyti.ms/kWLKtE

I guess the "French Holiday" for violent rapists may be coming to a close.

And now the former head of the Bank of Alexandria in Egypt has been arrested in NYC


What we may be seeing is evidence of how power can go to a man's head, as it were.

A good friend of mine in the hotel industry told me the same thing that the media has already reported: hotel maids are routinely subject to incidents of sexual harassment and worse. One common occurrence is couples who deliberately continue to have sex even when they know a maid is going to come into the room, for example. The standard instruction to the maids when this happens is to say, "Excuse me," get out of the room quickly, and report the incident to management.

That does not surprise me. When they come in and some couple are continuing to enjoy themselves, bring on the camera. Obviously, they either are or very shortly could be movie stars. The tapes could we worth millions.....O' rly?????/

Here is the set of charges:

http://www.france24.com/en/files/Crimin ... plaint.pdf

Specific to the two charges of criminal sexual act in the first degree (which is inclusive of any contact), the warrant states he:

"forcibly made contact with his penis and informant's mouth twice"

While I realize that newspapers print a variety of unsourced facts, the DA picked an odd way to characterize insertion there.

John Solomon at the Daily Beast cites "sources familiar with the investigation" for his reporting. That's a bit different from reporting facts that are "unsourced," isn't it? Anyway, even if you conclude that those sources are fictional characters, time will reveal all.

No, I don't conclude that the sources are fictional, but I typically don't conclude much from "sources close to the investigation".

The actual warrant, though, seems oddly phrased if that was the allegation. However it could be that they do not allege more than the charge requires.



I dunno how one can determine that. Some hotels have aggressive staff who will disregard a "do not disturb" sign. There are a couple of Westin's I've stayed in where I've been trying to work under what feels like a siege. Even with the sign, they'll bang on the door and then call on the telephone toward the end of the shift to make sure you really, really, really mean it. You get the feeling that if you don't want your room made up, then they think you are setting up a meth lab in there.

Makes sense to me.



From the circumstances, I would think. When you observe hotel guest behavior over a period of 30 years or so, as my source familiar with this investigation has, I have no doubt that the patterns of various sickos begin to emerge with experience.



I'm sure that happens sometimes. I'm also sure that rape happens sometimes.

Breaking news in the DS-K case. Investigators have found problems with the cleaning woman's story and the case is in trouble.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/01/nyreg ... .html?_r=2

Yeah... Calling your incarcerated drug dealer friend for whom you launder money, is not the best move, nor is lying to investigators about having previously alleged to have been raped...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/domi ... -maid.html

Prosecutors, previously bullish about the strength of the claims made by the Guinean maid, are now preparing to admit to Judge Michael Obus at New York supreme court that they “have problems with the case”, the newspaper said.

It said that the woman had a recorded phone call with “an incarcerated man” within a day of her encounter with Mr Strauss-Kahn, when she “discussed the possible benefits” of pursuing charges.

The man, said to have been arrested over possession of a huge amount of marijuana, was also among several people who made cash deposits into the maid's bank account, it said.

The deposits, which were said to total $100,000 (£62,000) were made in Arizona, Georgia, New York and Pennsylvania, according to the report.

It was further alleged that while the woman told investigators that part of her application for asylum in the US was that she had previously been raped, on further investigation it emerged this was not true.

I will tend to give the benefit of the doubt to the vicim in a sexual assult case while trying to keep an open mind for any exculpatory evidence. That said, I did not see this coming. I guess we'll never know, for sure, the truth of this matter. I'd also love to second guess the NYPD here, but it's not all the Law & Order franchise in real life.

All the discrepancies with her asylum papers is not a good sign. Nor is having a bank account used for money laundering. She may have opened up a can of worms that will have her deported.

It sounds like a plot for Law and Order and I am sure they will use it at some point. I miss Boston Legal.

The victim's credibility is impugned, but that does not mean that D S-K did not sexually assault her. His own behavior indicates consciousness of guilt. It is quite possible for a thief, money launderer, drug dealer, prostitute, and all-around liar to be raped.

True, Tollie. But whether the prosecutor can now prove it is the actually issue the D.A. must determine. Some cases are still worth bringing with baggage like this, but is this one if the rumors are true.

Checking out of the hotel and returning to his home in France?

Like I always say... if I'm ever suspected of anything, I sure hope I behave the right way.

Last night I Google searched how to make atomic bombs. If Mrs. Ipsa goes missing, I'm sure someone will think I nuked her.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/07/ ... 6147.shtml


The other stuff is somewhat atmospheric, but why would she have lied to the grand jury about what she did in the immediate aftermath?

I think she was trying to turn it into an income opportunity. She apparently took advantage of several other opportunities that came her way. I suspect that within her milieu, teh tony hotel she worked in combined with the drug dealers she hung out with at home, it was common knowledge that such opportunities often arise around the rich, the powerful, the careless.