IMF Chief Accused of Sexual Assault at NYC Hotel

[kiwiman127]

Ha! Trying to connect the dots of a foreign international financial kingpin to the Dems! That is about as weak-minded as it gets. But then it's the regular tinfoil hat wearers who interjected the connection, so what does one expect.

 

[georgephillip]

Dominique Strauss-Kahn has been living like a king. He is a French economist, lawyer, and politician, and a member of the Socialist Party of France. He claims he is a former Communist. He is the International Monetary Fund Chief and has been spending $3,000 a night for a Midtown Manhattan hotel suite and flying 1st class back around the world. How can a socialist public servant afford such a lavish life? Strauss-Kahn earns about $420,000 a year in salary, plus pension contributions and generous benefits. He receives an additional $75,000 in living expenses. Per his contract Strauss-Kahn charges all "reasonable expenses" incurred including entertaining and meeting with politicians. Struass is reimbursed for all travel expenses and per his contract must always fly first class.

Is he a Capitalist CEO or a Socialist? Not sure which lives better?

Strauss-Kahn was yanked out of his 1st class seat while waiting to fly out of a New York City airport back to Paris. He is being charged with sexual assault, forcible confinement, and attempted rape of a maid who was cleaning his hotel room. He was refused bail and is awaiting his next court appearance.

Strauss-Kahn has been lobbying the US for cash to bail out all the European Socialist countries who are failing do to Socialism. The USA has given billions of dollars in US aid to help bailing out this European Socialist countries

You Democrats aka Socialist have a lot of explaining to do?

"Indeed, only a few days before the hotel room scandal broke, DSK(Dominique Strauss-Kahn) was under fire for being photographed getting into a luxurious Porsche – not his own, as it happens, but ironically belonging to his public relations ('communication' these days) advisor.

"But this was only a reminder that the potential Socialist candidate is anything but a man of the people. Strauss-Kahn’s luxurious life style is no secret, his hunger for wealth and power every bit equal to that of Sarkozy, and his womanizing reputation has spiced up Paris dinner party conversation for years.

"Moreover, he has been credited with a style of womanizing that is not so much the Latin lover stereotype as 'a chimpanzee in heat', according to a young journalist who has publicly recounted how she had to fight him off tooth and nail.

"But the real scandal for the Socialist Party is the one it does not even begin to recognize: that it was pinning its electoral hopes on a leading champion of global capitalism, the president of the IMF.

"Whatever the outcome of the New York proceedings, the bursting DSK bubble marks the total degeneration of the Socialist Party in France, for reasons that have nothing to do with his sex life."

btw, the economic collapse of European countries has more to do with Wall Street's latest looting than it does with socialism.

CounterPunch: Tells the Facts, Names the Names

 

[Political Junky]

There's been talk of a set-up.
Strauss-Kahn was a shoe-in for the presidency of France.

 

[waltky]

Who will be Strauss-Kahn's successor?...

If Strauss-Kahn is out, who might become IMF chief?
May 17, 2011 : Dominique Strauss-Kahn was arrested only two days ago, but the jockeying for his post is under way. Could a non-European win the influential job?

Dominique Strauss-Kahn may be sitting in a Rikers Island jail cell on charges of sexual assault, but officially, he's still managing director of the International Monetary Fund. That hasn't stopped governments around the world from looking for a successor. The list of possible replacements is already long – and also indicates that the jockeying for Mr. Strauss-Kahn's post could be contentious and full of conflict. What's more, non-European candidates may be making a strong run for the position.

There's French Economy minister Christine Lagarde. She's known as a competent and smooth operator, but she is the object of a corruption investigation in France. Then there is Peer Steinbrück, former German Finance minister who has been credited with helping consolidate Germany's budget. He is also famously short-tempered. Kemal Dervis is another name on the list, the former Turkish Finance minister steered his country successfully through a financial crisis in 2001.

Europe (mainly France) has traditionally occupied the seat at the top of the IMF. In return, the US gets the post of World Bank director. But with the global economic balance shifting, up-and-coming economies from outside the EU are demanding a bigger say. The selection process for a new IMF director should be based on fairness, transparency, and performance, says Jiang Yu, spokeswoman for the Chinese Foreign Ministry. India, Mexico, and South Africa all have their own candidates ready. But German Chancellor Angela Merkel insisted that now is not the time for Europe to let go.

"We know that in the medium term, the emerging markets have a right to the top positions at the IMF and the World Bank," she said Monday in Berlin. "But in the current situation Europe is well advised to have its own candidates." Officially, the 24-member IMF executive directors elect the person for the top spot. In reality, however, they act on behalf of national governments, and the power balance among them reflects a Western dominance. Nine of them are European, and the US representative's vote counts as four.

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[georgephillip]

Why is anyone surprised? He was just doing to that maid what the IMF has been doing to poor countries for decades.











Kidding. I'm hip with the IMF.

For a minute I thought you had reformed.

Do you agree with Dean Baker regarding the IMF's recent adjustments?

"Dominique Strauss-Kahn tried to shake up this institution.

"He brought in Olivier Blanchard from MIT, one of the world's most prominent macroeconomists, as the IMF's chief economist. He gave Blanchard a free rein, which he quickly used to harshly criticize the orthodoxy within the IMF.

"Last fall, the IMF published a study in its World Economic Outlook that showed that fiscal austerity in the wake of the economic crisis would further contract demand and raise unemployment.

"This reversed the institution's historic role; the IMF officially became a voice for expansion and employment rather than contraction and austerity."

Dean Baker: Strauss-Kahn and the IMF

 

[Baruch Menachem]

Innocent until proven guilty is still the rule here.

However, the fact he tried to get out of dodge just ahead of the gendarmes probably means he will stay in jail till his trial is over. And Riker's Island is one of the countries oldest jails. He is probably very very unhappy now, having gone from brie and champagne to corned beef and cabbage.

So if he is innocent, he has my sympathy. But given his record, it might be misplaced

 

[American Cowboy]

Ha! Trying to connect the dots of a foreign international financial kingpin to the Dems! That is about as weak-minded as it gets. But then it's the regular tinfoil hat wearers who interjected the connection, so what does one expect.

Another slow learner. Here is how you connect the dots

Dominique Strauss-Kahn has been living like a king. He is a French economist, lawyer, and politician, and a member of the Socialist Party of France. He claims he is a former Communist. He is the International Monetary Fund Chief and has been spending $3,000 a night for a Midtown Manhattan hotel suite and flying 1st class back around the world. How can a socialist public servant afford such a lavish life? Strauss-Kahn earns about $420,000 a year in salary, plus pension contributions and generous benefits. He receives an additional $75,000 in living expenses. Per his contract Strauss-Kahn charges all "reasonable expenses" incurred including entertaining and meeting with politicians. Struass is reimbursed for all travel expenses and per his contract must always fly first class.

Is he a Capitalist CEO or a Socialist? Not sure which lives better?

Strauss-Kahn was yanked out of his 1st class seat while waiting to fly out of a New York City airport back to Paris. He is being charged with sexual assault, forcible confinement, and attempted rape of a maid who was cleaning his hotel room. He was refused bail and is awaiting his next court appearance.

Strauss-Kahn has been lobbying the US for cash to bail out all the European Socialist countries who are failing do to Socialism. The USA has given billions of dollars in US aid to help bailing out this European Socialist countries

You Democrats aka Socialist have a lot of explaining to do?

Yeah because you know how socialism encourages masters of the universe to molest chambermaids, right?

Mon Dieu, ami, obtiennent un indice!

Well since you are slow, there are three issues here:

1. Socialism bankrupts countries

2. Socialist leaders live as high on the hog as CEOs

3. Rape

Once again a leftwinger has chosen to ignore #1 and #2. and continues to talk about how everyone is getting fvcked. How typical

 

[whitehall]

Wasn't fellow traveler Al Gore accused of a similar sexual assault last year. Which prison is he in?

 

[American Cowboy]

Wasn't fellow traveler Al Gore accused of a similar sexual assault last year. Which prison is he in?

I believe he was...Do you think a finical settlement may have kept him out of the big house?

 

[MikeK]

Ha! Trying to connect the dots of a foreign international financial kingpin to the Dems! That is about as weak-minded as it gets. But then it's the regular tinfoil hat wearers who interjected the connection, so what does one expect.

That cat looks thoroughly pissed off and disgusted.

 

[waltky]

Sacre bleu! Dem Frenchies don't like it...

French outrage over 'inhumane' treatment of Strauss-Kahn highlights culture clash
May 17, 2011 : Unless it is proven that International Monetary Fund head Dominique Strauss-Kahn raped a hotel maid in New York, it's none of the public's business, many French say.

As International Monetary Fund head Dominique Strauss-Kahn sits in an American detention center cell on Rikers Island, his case has spurred a hot debate on French attitudes toward politicians and sexual misconduct. Many in France are angry over the way US authorities have handled the Strauss-Kahn case, particularly the "perp walk" – which would be illegal in France – and the lack of bail, which they say implies that he has been presumed guilty, CNN reported.

"There's a general feeling of a media, a judicial fury – of a lynching," Jack Lang, France's former minister of culture and education and a Socialist Party lawmaker, told Europe 1 radio. Lang called the American justice system "inhumane." "For 48 hours now, only the side of the accusation has been heard ... and the versions given by police have been contradictory," he said. "The refusal to allow him out on bail, when no violent crime has been committed – even in America suspects are usually let go on bail if a violent crime has not been committed." "They do feel he hasn't been given a chance to show his defense," [Nathan King, a correspondent for France 24 television network] said.

Robert Badinter, a member (like Strauss-Kahn) of France's Socialist party and a former justice minister, expressed dismay at the way the case was being handled in the US. He called Strauss-Kahn a friend and a man who many had rushed to accuse before even getting to the bottom of the situation. His comments were published in a roundup of reaction published by the French-language newspaper, Liberation. "Where is the respect of the presumption of innocence?" he asked. "I see [in this situation] the failure of a system. It is a deliberate destruction, it is disgraceful, it has nothing to do with American justice. Why wasn't he released on bail? Because he is French? Because is the director of the IMF?"

Some have even gone so far as to speculate that his arrest was a plot by his political opponents who, working off of his reputation as the "Great Seducer," attempted frame him as a rapist – a possibility that Strauss-Kahn was concerned about even before the alleged assault, The Telegraph reports. In the then off-the-record discussion on April 28, the International Monetary Fund chief said he could imagine a scenario where he was framed for a rape he did not commit. … Mr. Strauss-Kahn then said there were three obstacles to his election: "Money (he is vastly wealthy), women, and my Judaism." Starting with the female question, the former Socialist finance minister said: "Yes, I love women, et alors?"

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Strauss-Kahn Under Suicide Watch in New York Prison
May 17, 2011 : A law enforcement official says International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn is under a 24-hour suicide watch in a New York prison.

Strauss-Khan is being held at Rikers Island, a maximum security prison, for allegedly trying to rape a New York City hotel maid. The prison official Tuesday said Strauss-Kahn was placed under a suicide watch after undergoing a psychological exam. He gave no other details. Some global financial leaders are suggesting that Strauss-Kahn resign as head of the IMF.

Austrian Finance Minister Maria Fekter said he should quit to avoid damaging the IMF. Spanish Finance Minister Elena Salgado said her sympathies are with the woman who was allegedly assaulted. Officials in China and Brazil suggest that the next IMF leader come from outside Europe. German Chancellor Angela Merkel says world leaders should not pre-judge Strauss-Kahn. But she added that Europe has good candidates available to take his place.

Strauss-Kahn is accused of attempted rape and criminal sexual acts against a maid at a luxury hotel in New York. He denies the charges. A New York judge denied Strauss-Kahn bail, saying he could be a flight risk. Strauss-Kahn is reported being kept in a single cell away from the general prison population.

Strauss-Kahn has weathered past sexual scandals. In 2008 he apologized for what he termed an "error in judgment" for an affair with one of his subordinates. Also, a lawyer for French writer Tristane Banon says she is considering filing a legal complaint against Strauss-Kahn, claiming he sexually assaulted her in 2002. Strauss-Kahn is due back in court on Friday.

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[Queen]

Dear IMF Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn, thank you! Sincerely yours, ex-Senator Ensign and ex-Governor Schwarzenegger.

 

[Queen]

Wasn't fellow traveler Al Gore accused of a similar sexual assault last year. Which prison is he in?

Must have only been on the extremist right wing nutjob blogs.

 

[Baruch Menachem]

Gore hired a masseuse from a hotel and the masseuse claimed several years after the fact that he has assumed her services were not just comfort and relaxation.

Case was dismissed for lack of evidence and because it was such a long time after the alleged assault took place.

 

[sparky]

Such irony that a world class bankster should gain this amount of attention raping an individual.....

 

[chanel]

The IMF chief's alleged sex-assault victim lives in a Bronx apartment rented exclusively for adults with HIV or AIDS, The Post has learned.

The hotel maid, a West African immigrant, has occupied the fourth-floor High Bridge pad with her 15-year-old daughter since January -- and before that, lived in another Bronx apartment set aside by Harlem Community AIDS United strictly for adults with the virus and their families.

The Post has not been able to ascertain whether the maid, 32, has HIV/AIDS because of medical confidentiality laws.

But the agency rents apartments only for adults with the disease. A Harlem United worker said at least one adult in the household has to be HIV-positive or have AIDS to qualify for one of their units. A healthy adult with a child with HIV or AIDS is not eligible.

Read more: Accuser in IMF Strauss-Kahn hotel sex case lives in apartment for AIDS victims - NYPOST.com

Hmmm. How long does it take to find out if one has contracted HIV?

 

[sparky]

a bit of poetic justice Chanel?

 

[editec]

Dominique Strauss-Kahn has been living like a king. He is a French economist, lawyer, and politician, and a member of the Socialist Party of France. He claims he is a former Communist. He is the International Monetary Fund Chief and has been spending $3,000 a night for a Midtown Manhattan hotel suite and flying 1st class back around the world. How can a socialist public servant afford such a lavish life? Strauss-Kahn earns about $420,000 a year in salary, plus pension contributions and generous benefits. He receives an additional $75,000 in living expenses. Per his contract Strauss-Kahn charges all "reasonable expenses" incurred including entertaining and meeting with politicians. Struass is reimbursed for all travel expenses and per his contract must always fly first class.

Is he a Capitalist CEO or a Socialist? Not sure which lives better?

Strauss-Kahn was yanked out of his 1st class seat while waiting to fly out of a New York City airport back to Paris. He is being charged with sexual assault, forcible confinement, and attempted rape of a maid who was cleaning his hotel room. He was refused bail and is awaiting his next court appearance.

Strauss-Kahn has been lobbying the US for cash to bail out all the European Socialist countries who are failing do to Socialism. The USA has given billions of dollars in US aid to help bailing out this European Socialist countries

You Democrats aka Socialist have a lot of explaining to do?

Yeah because you know how socialism encourages masters of the universe to molest chambermaids, right?

Mon Dieu, ami, obtiennent un indice!

Well since you are slow, there are three issues here:

1. Socialism bankrupts countries

The IMF certainly seems to have that effect. Where we mostly differ is what we are calling it.

You and Dominique Strauss-Kahn call THAT socialism. I call THAT criminal Bansterism lead by the masters of the universe .

2. Socialist leaders live as high on the hog as CEOs

The Banksters certainly do have a good life, don't they?

Hardly surprising since they've set up a system that basically makes the rest of the world their slaves.

And this is so obvious if one but looks at the details at how both BUSH II and OBAMA's policies have channeled trillions into the coffers of the BANSTERS.

3. Rape

Once again a leftwinger has chosen to ignore #1 and #2. and continues to talk about how everyone is getting fvcked. How typical

Rape of a person really has little to do with politics or economic systems, AC.

I presume that both of us think that is a crime, yes?