Flashermac Posted July 3, 2011 Author Report Share Posted July 3, 2011 He's smart enough to be the governor of California! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kamui Posted July 3, 2011 Report Share Posted July 3, 2011 When you're the boss of IMF you don't fiddle with room maids, stupid idiot, get a brain. There was a recent research on the behavior of the really rich and powerful people. Most of them are being completely isolated from the lifes of the average people. One result is that they expect that common rules and even laws don't apply to them anymore. In regard to Strauss-Kahn: he has a long history of sexual harassment and overstepping rules of behavior in regard to women. It is said that the lead prosecutor fucked up the case seriously. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flashermac Posted July 3, 2011 Author Report Share Posted July 3, 2011 Thaksin certainly feels that way. But at least he is fairly discrete with women - except for that one young singer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flashermac Posted July 4, 2011 Author Report Share Posted July 4, 2011 French writer to sue former IMF chief Strauss-Kahn for attempted rape AFP - A French woman will bring legal action this week for attempted rape against former IMF head Dominique Strauss-Kahn, her lawyer said Monday in an interview published online. Tristane Banon, a journalist and writer, "is lodging a complaint for attempted rape against Mr Dominique Strauss-Kahn", the lawyer, David Koubbi, was quoted as saying by news magazine L'Express on its website. "I will send the complaint tomorrow, Tuesday July 5, to the prosecutor, who will receive it on Wednesday morning." he announcement came as Strauss-Kahn gained high hopes of being cleared in another sex assault case, which saw him arrested and charged with trying to rape a New York hotel maid and cost him his job as head of the IMF. Banon, 32, has alleged that Strauss-Kahn invited her to an apartment in 2003 promising to give her an interview, and instead pounced on her like "a rutting chimpanzee". She made that allegation against the powerful politician in 2007 on television and in an interview with a news website, but had not so far made a formal complaint to authorities. The New York case meanwhile appeared close to collapse after prosecutors cast doubt on the accuser's credibility, saying the maid was suspected of lying to police. Strauss-Kahn was released from house arrest on Friday, prompting his allies in the French opposition Socialist Party to talk of his possible return to run for president. Before the New York scandal he polled as the person most likely to beat President Nicolas Sarkozy in the 2012 election. Koubbi denied the decision was driven by political motives or influenced by the New York case. "Tristane Banon really underwent what she is accusing Mr Strauss-Kahn of," L'Express quoted him as saying. "Even if that case against Mr Strauss-Kahn turns out to be unfounded, ours is not. It is extremely solid and backed-up." In February 2007, Banon was a guest on a television chat show and recounted how a senior politician had lured her to a virtually empty apartment in the guise of agreeing to give an interview and then assaulted her. In the broadcast version of Banon's comments the name of the politician was bleeped out, but a year later Banon confirmed to the AgoraVox website that she was referring to Strauss-Kahn. "I put down the recorder straight away to record him. He wanted to hold my hand while he replied, because he told me 'I wouldn't be able to manage unless you hold my hand'," she alleged in the Paris Premiere broadcast. "Then the hand went to my arm, then a bit further, so I stopped straight away," she explained. "It finished very violently -- as I told him clearly 'No, No!' -- and we finished up fighting on the floor. "There wasn't just a couple of blows. I kicked him, and he tried to unclip my bra, to open my jeans," Banon said, adding that she eventually escaped and considered pressing charges before abandoning the idea. "I didn't want to be for the rest of my days the girl who had had a problem with a politician," she said. Banon's mother, Socialist politician and blogger Anne Mansouret, confirmed to the news website Rue89, that she had advised her daughter at the time not to make a formal complaint, for fear of hurting her career in journalism. Link Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bangkoktraveler Posted July 4, 2011 Report Share Posted July 4, 2011 Takes her 4 years to make a complaint? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coss Posted July 5, 2011 Report Share Posted July 5, 2011 4 years to come out of denial Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coss Posted July 25, 2011 Report Share Posted July 25, 2011 4 years to come out of denial The complainant has broken her silence, and whether or not Strauss-Kahn did the deed - I don't fancy his taste. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flashermac Posted July 26, 2011 Author Report Share Posted July 26, 2011 Hotel maid who accused DSK speaks out NEW YORK: A Guinean woman who has accused former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn of trying to rape her in a New York hotel broke her silence Sunday, saying she wants him to go to jail and to clear her name. "Because of him, they call me a prostitute," she told Newsweek magazine in her first public interviews since the alleged attack by the former powerful French politician in a Manhattan hotel suite in May. "I want him to go to jail. I want him to know there are some places you cannot use your power, you cannot use your money." She was fighting back against allegations that appeared in the US media, after New York prosecutors openly questioned her credibility saying she had changed her story and lied on her asylum application. There were also media reports of possible links to criminal activities and that she was recorded speaking by phone with a boyfriend jailed for possessing marijuana and discussing the benefits of pursuing charges. The woman has not been seen in public since the alleged attack and said she was whisked away to a hotel with her 15-year-old daughter and not allowed to return to her apartment for two months. She was also to appear on ABC's "Good Morning America" Monday exactly a week before Strauss-Kahn is due back in court in New York on August 1 for his next hearing on seven charges of attempted rape and sexual assault. "I want justice. I want him to go to jail," the woman, who AFP has chosen not to name in line with its policy of protecting victims of alleged abuse, told ABC. "God is my witness I'm telling the truth. From my heart. God knows that. And he knows that," she said according to excerpts released on Sunday. Seeking to address some of the prosecutors concerns, she told Newsweek she did not have any boyfriends, just friends who had taken advantage of her, and she had mistakenly trusted one enough to give him access to her bank accounts. She admitted to ABC to making "mistakes" but she insists that her account of what happened inside the hotel room has remained the same even if the timeline of what happened when she ran away changed because she had been disorientated. But Strauss-Kahn's lawyers Sunday renewed a call for the charges to be dismissed, accusing the 32-year-old illiterate immigrant of organizing an unprecedented media campaign and trying to "inflame public opinion." The former French politician once seen as a leading contender to become the next president of France has denied all the charges arising from the May 14 incident. But the accusations in the United States have also prompted a French writer, Tristane Banon, to accuse Strauss-Kahn -- who had earned a reputation as a womanizer -- of attempted rape in 2003. He has also denied having any detailed knowledge of that attack, but it led to a top fellow Socialist presidential hopeful Francois Hollande being quizzed by police last week. Strauss-Kahn's accuser in the US was working as a chamber maid when she says she was attacked in a suite on the Sofitel's 28th floor. She told Newsweek said she had called out "Hello, housekeeping" as she entered the room, and then a naked man with white hair appeared. "Oh, my God," she said. "I'm so sorry." And she turned to leave. "You don't have to be sorry," the man allegedly replied. But he was like "a crazy man to me." She said the man clutched her breasts and slammed the door. He allegedly then pushed her to her knees, gripped her head hard and tried to force his penis into her mouth. "I got up. I was spitting. I run. I run out of there. I don't turn back. I run to the hallway. I was so nervous. I was so scared. I didn't want to lose my job" she told Newsweek. She said the whole incident took less than 15 minutes and as she hid in the corridor trying to compose herself, she saw him come out of his room dressed, with his luggage. He nodded at her and then stared straight ahead. "He said nothing," she said. But Strauss-Kahn's lawyers accused her of being "the first accuser in history to conduct a media campaign to persuade a prosecutor to pursue charges against a person from whom she wants money." "This conduct by (the woman's) lawyers is unprofessional and it violates fundamental rules of professional conduct for lawyers," William Taylor and Benjamin Brafman said in a statement. "Her lawyers know that her claim for money suffers a fatal blow when the criminal charges are dismissed, as they must be." My link Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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