IMF head Strauss-Kahn charged with rape of hotel maid

[Flashermac]

The French political poohbah who heads the International Monetary Fund was arrested for allegedly sodomizing a Manhattan hotel maid yesterday - hauled off an Air France flight just moments before takeoff from Kennedy Airport, police sources said.

 

Three Port Authority detectives hauled Dominique Strauss-Kahn from the plane's first-class cabin just two minutes before it was due to depart for Paris, according to the police sources.

 

Strauss-Kahn, 62 - who was expected to challenge French President Nicholas Sarkozy in the 2012 election - was turned over to NYPD officers and brought to the Special Victims Unit's uptown squad room.

 

Strauss-Kahn is awaiting arraignment on charges of a criminal sex act, attempted rape and unlawful imprisonment, NYPD spokesman Paul Browne said.

 

The trouble began at around 1 p.m. yesterday when a 32-year-old housekeeper entered Strauss-Kahn's $3,000-a-night suite at the luxury Sofitel on West 44th Street - apparently unaware he was still inside.

 

The married Strauss-Kahn was in the bathroom, and emerged naked, chased her down a hallway and pulled her into a bedroom, where "he jumped her," a source said.

 

"She pulled away from him and he dragged her down a hallway into the bathroom where he engaged in a criminal sexual act, according to her account to detectives," Browne said. "He tried to lock her into the hotel room."

 

Soon afterward, Strauss-Kahn got dressed and headed off to JFK for a flight to Paris.

 

When he was approached on the plane by Port Authority cops, he said, "What is this about?" sources said. He was taken off the aircraft without handcuffs.

 

Two law-enforcement sources said Strauss-Kahn was trying to flee authorities. Police said he left his cellphone and other personal items in the room.

 

"It looked like he got out of there in a hurry," Browne said.

 

Strauss-Kahn, who had a meeting planned for today with German Chancellor Angela Merkel in Berlin, has an arrangement with Air France that allows him to get on any flight and sit in first class, the sources said. He was traveling alone.

 

Browne said Strauss-Kahn does not have diplomatic immunity. He was expected to be brought to court today. High-profile criminal defense lawyer Ben Brafman told The Post he will be defending Strauss-Kahn - but by late last night, had not yet spoken with him.

 

[color:red]The victim was taken to Roosevelt Hospital, where she was treated for trauma.[/color]

 

The shocking arrest came hours after a Socialist Party ally of Strauss-Kahn accused Sarkozy of kicking off a smear campaign against his longtime rival - focusing on his lavish lifestyle, including his preference for suits from the same tailor favored by President Obama.

 

"There is now a totally structured and orchestrated campaign, which has already been announced by Mr. Sarkozy and his closest allies, to attack the character of Strauss-Kahn," Socialist politician Jean-Marie Le Guen told Europe 1 radio.

 

Strauss-Kahn's stint at the helm of the IMF in Washington does not officially end until September 2012, several months after the scheduled date of France's presidential vote.

 

But the French political world has been buzzing with speculation that the man popularly known as "DSK" would bring a premature end to his tenure and throw his hat in the ring.

 

And some opinion polls suggested he would win.

 

In France's 2007 elections, Strauss-Kahn lost the Socialist nomination to Segolene Royal, who in turn was defeated in the general election by Sarkozy, leader of the right-wing Union for a Popular Movement.

 

But Sarkozy, who still sees Strauss-Kahn as his likeliest electoral rival, is believed to have maneuvered Strauss-Kahn out of France by backing him to head the Washington-based IMF.

 

A spokeswoman for the State Department had no comment, nor did a spokesperson for the French Embassy. The IMF did not return calls seeking comment.

 

 

 

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[Guest lazyphil]

roman polinski got away with sodomy and had all the lovey slimers fight his corner, watch similar slimers do the same. asshole (if true)

[Flashermac]

Polanski's defenders attacked the 14-year-old girl he'd drugged and buggered, claiming she was a "bad girl" and no virgin. No proof offered for the claim, and even if she had been it would change nothing. It wasn't statutory rape, it was forcible. Doesn't matter if you rape a porn star, it is still rape! Unless you are rich and famous with a lot of lefty friends, that is ...

 

This guy's running certainly doesn't look good, no matter what they may claim about Sarkozy.

 

 

[Flashermac]

 

French IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn hauled off plane at JFK, accused of assaulting hotel maid

 

 

 

The chief of the International Monetary Fund - a Frenchman nicknamed "the great seducer" - was arrested early Sunday after a Manhattan hotel maid accused him of sexual assault.

 

Port Authority cops hauled Dominique Strauss-Kahn, 62, from the first-class cabin of Paris-bound Air France Flight 23 moments before its 4:40 p.m. takeoff from Kennedy Airport on Saturday, cops said.

 

Strauss-Kahn, a top presidential contender in France who is married to a New York-born journalist, was arrested on charges of criminal sexual act, attempted rape, and an unlawful imprisonment, police said.

 

[color:red]The 32-year-old Sofitel hotel maid provided a terrifying account of the attack to cops.

 

At about 1 p.m., she walked into Strauss-Kahn's $3,000-a-night-suite - Room 2806 - at the posh W. 44th St. hotel, thinking it was empty.

 

Strauss-Kahn emerged from the bathroom naked, chased her down the hallway in his suite and yanked her into a bedroom, where he sexually assaulted her, the maid told police.

 

She fought him off, but he dragged her into the bathroom, forced her to perform oral sex and tried to peel off her panties.

 

At one point, he tried to lock the suite's door.[/color]

 

[color:red]The woman escaped, scampered out of the room and alerted a hotel staffer, who called 911, according to cops.[/color]

 

The frisky Frenchie high-tailed it out of the hotel to the airport before cops arrived, leaving his cell phone and other personal items behind, police said.

 

"It looked like he got out of there in a hurry," Browne said.

 

The maid was taken by ambulance to Roosevelt Hospital and treated for minor injuries and released, police said.

 

An army of cops and detectives were seen milling about on the hotel's 28th floor last night.

 

Strauss-Kahn, who had been running well ahead of French President Nicolas Sarkozy in opinion polls, has reportedly hired prominent New York lawyer Benjamin Brafman and was not speaking to investigators.

 

This is not the first time the playboy pol has been embroiled in a sex scandal.

 

Three years ago, Strauss-Kahn was accused of having a fling with a former underling at the Davos international forum.

 

The affair emerged after the woman's furious husband, a senior Argentine economist named Mario Blejer, claimed Strauss-Kahn had seduced his Hungarian wife, Piroska Nagy, an IMF staffer at the time.

 

The embarrassing claims prompted Strauss-Kahn to issue an apology saying, "I accept that this incident represents a serious error of judgment."

 

Even before the incident, Strauss-Kahn had been dubbed "un grand seducteur" because of his reputation as a free-wheeling ladies man.

 

Twice divorced, Strauss-Kahn is married to French TV journalist Anne Sinclair and has four children.

 

No one answered the door at Strauss-Kahn's two-story, red brick mansion in Washington, D.C.'s posh Georgetown neighborhood last night. A black BMW SUV with diplomatic plates sat in the driveway.

 

A spokesman for the IMF said the organization had no immediate comment on reports of Strauss-Kahn's arrest.

 

He is not protected by diplomatic immunity, sources said.

 

Hours before he was pulled from the flight, a close Socialist Party ally claimed Strauss-Kahn was the target of a smear campaign by Sarkozy.

 

The ex-French finance minister is reportedly preparing legal action over media reports saying he enjoys a lavish lifestyle.

 

According to one report, Strauss-Kahn spends huge sums of cash on expensive suits from a luxury tailor in Washington known to serve President Obama. :content:

 

Strauss-Kahn, who has yet to say if he will run for French president, would have to quit his IMF post to do so.

 

[color:red]His arrest was seen as a devastating blow to his presidential aspirations.[/color]

 

 

 

Mr Nice Guy

 

[khunsanuk]

Hi,

 

If this is true I hope they throw the book at him, but it does seem very ... odd.

 

I mean, the guy must have known there is no way he could get away with something like this. And one would expect that a guy with such a high position would not be a complete moron.

 

Sanuk!

 

[chuckwoww]

He probably didn't expect the woman to complain KS. She was just a maid, probably brown. Quick dash to the airport and his reserved seat on Air France. It's called arrogance.

[chuckwoww]

Some bloggers are suggesting he was set up by bankers who don't like the way he handles Irish and Greek debt. I'm just saying.

[Flashermac]

 

I noticed they don't describe the woman. My first thought was that she is probably black or a Latina. How dare she deny him what he wants. He is rich and powerful!

 

 

[Flashermac]

Some bloggers are suggesting he was set up by bankers who don't like the way he handles Irish and Greek debt. I'm just saying.

 

 

So they knew he would be in his room nude with a hard on, and arranged for the maid to go in and be molested. These must be the same bloggers who think GWB had Osama in the freezer all these years waiting for an opportune time to "kill" him.

 

 

[chuckwoww]

Notice I was careful to say SOME bloggers. I know blogging is the same as tree-hugging for SOME people. At least MOST bloggers don't swallow every story that appears on CNN.