Head of the IMF arrested on sexual assault charges.

For Forks Sake · 15-05-2011 12:40AM #1

IMF boss Strauss-Kahn pulled off plane, arrested in sodomy probe
By PHILIP MESSING, JAMIE SCHRAM, LARRY CELONA and BILL SANDERSON
Last Updated: 7:25 PM, May 14, 2011
Posted: 6:33 PM, May 14, 2011

The French political bigshot who heads the International Monetary Fund was arrested for allegedly sodomizing a Manhattan hotel maid today — getting hauled off an Air France flight just moments before takeoff from Kennedy Airport, police sources told The Post.
Three Port Authority detectives pulled Dominique Strauss-Kahn from the plane’s first-class cabin just two minutes before it was due to depart for Paris, the sources said.

Strauss-Kahn, 62, was turned over to NYPD officers from the Midtown South precinct, and the case is being investigated by the Special Victims Unit.

The trouble began around noon today, when a housekeeper entered Strauss-Kahn’s room at the Sofitel on West 44th Street.
Strauss-Kahn was in his bathroom, said sources. He emerged from the bathroom naked, said the sources, and grabbed her.
Then, Strauss-Kahn allegedly threw the housekeeper on the room’s bed and forced her to perform oral sex on him, said the sources.
Strauss-Kahn let the maid leave — and soon afterward, headed off to Kennedy Airport for his flight to Paris.
The NYPD’s special victims unit is investigating the case, the sources said.

His arrest tonight could force him to postpone a planned meeting in Berlin on Sunday with German chancellor Angela Merkel.
Strauss-Kahn, a leader of France’s Socialist Party, is the leading rival to President Nicholas Sarkozy in the 2012 election.
Sarkozy was said in a news report yesterday to have begun a smear campaign against his rival that focused on his lavish lifestyle — including Strauss-Kahn’s purchase of suits from the same tailor who clothes President Obama.

But Strauss-Kahn seems able to find trouble on his own. In 2008, he publicly admitted to "an error of judgment" for having an affair with an IMF subordinate. In France’s 2007 vote, Strauss-Kahn lost the Socialist Party nomination to Segolene Royal, who in turn fell to defeat against 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 in France to have maneuvered him out of France by backing him to head the Washington-based International Monetary Fund.

Strauss-Kahn is married to New York-born Anne Sinclair, a leading French TV journalist.
He was France’s Minister of Economy and Finance from 1997 to 1999, when he resigned to battle charges he was paid for consulting work he never did. But judges decided he really did the work, and prosecutors were forced to admit they had no evidence of fraudulent motive.

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RHunce · 15-05-2011 12:42AM

Fapping to the purdy wimmins!

Kevin Duffy · 15-05-2011 12:43AM

He'd already given it up the ass to over 4 million people in this country before this.

Saila · 15-05-2011 12:43AM

yes, that really happened

D1stant · 15-05-2011 12:46AM

Jesus. I mean I knew Noonan was in New York, but dressing up in a maids uniform... Wow

Oranage2 · 15-05-2011 12:48AM

It's a sad day when our last Taoiseach has to work as a maid.

Twiki · 15-05-2011 12:50AM

The next step in the process requires the maid to sign up to an austerity program.

Badgermonkey · 15-05-2011 12:51AM

He was merely providing a much needed injection of liquidity.

It's what the IMF do.

squod · 15-05-2011 12:51AM

sodomy probe

Poor choice of words.

gurramok · 15-05-2011 12:52AM

Wow OP, thanks for highlighting this. Now we got that IMF fooker by the balls :P

My name is URL · 15-05-2011 12:52AM

I think the fact that a Socialist is head of the IMF is the most shocking thing here.

Son Of A Vidic · 15-05-2011 12:53AM

All very strange, since when did sodomy and oral rape equal the same thing? Someone in this chain of information, doesn't know their arse from their face

Catari Jaguar · 15-05-2011 01:02AM

Duurty!

maglite · 15-05-2011 01:04AM

"arrested in sodomy probe"

hehe

My name is URL · 15-05-2011 01:09AM

Corvus Maximus wrote: »

All very strange, since when did sodomy and oral rape equal the same thing? Someone in this chain of information, doesn't know their arse from their face

Sodomy means anything other than vaginal sex.

HUNK · 15-05-2011 01:09AM

HAWT

Kevin Duffy · 15-05-2011 01:10AM

"pulled off plane". Jaysis, he'd chance his arm with anything, the dirty fecker.

Coriolanus · 15-05-2011 02:22AM

It'll be interesting to see how this develops. Curious that he wasn't charged with rape though rather than sodomy?

General General · 15-05-2011 02:34AM

He's in the running for the French presidency... this seems fishy.

ScumLord · 15-05-2011 02:42AM

Strauss-Kahn, 62, was turned over to NYPD officers from the Midtown South precinct, and the case is being investigated by the Special Victims Unit.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8lDYrvTILc

Fremen · 15-05-2011 02:56AM

My name is URL wrote: »

Sodomy means anything other than vaginal sex.

Except nasal sex. What's the correct name for that? Fúck knows.

Son Of A Vidic · 15-05-2011 03:09AM

My name is URL wrote: »

Sodomy means anything other than vaginal sex.

Technically yes, but generally clarity is provided on a specific act/assault to avoid confusion.

Godsentme · 15-05-2011 04:19AM

Nasel sex is classified as Smallcox.

WIZE · 15-05-2011 06:26AM

for raping Ireland

Not really

Apparently hes been charged for sexual assault on a Female Hotel worker

IMF Head Faces Charges Over Sex Attack Claims

The head of the IMF is expected to be charged with a criminal sexual act, attempted rape and unlawful imprisonment following an alleged attack on a hotel maid in New York.

IMF head Dominique Strauss-Kahn Dominique Strauss-Kahn was taken into custody at JFK airport after being pulled off a flight to Paris just minutes before take-off.

Authorities are investigating an alleged attack on a maid at the Sofitel New York hotel near Manhattan's Times Square.

A lawyer representing Mr Strauss-Kahn has indicated he "will plead not guilty" to the allegations.
New York Police Department spokesman Paul Browne said officers had been called to the hotel shortly after the alleged incident.

He said Mr Strauss-Kahn had already left the hotel, leaving behind his mobile phone and other personal items.

"It looked like he got out of there in a hurry," he added.
Detectives discovered he was at the airport and contacted the Port Authority, who took Mr Strauss-Kahn from the Air France flight.

Police said it was not immediately clear if the 62-year-old had been planning to leave on Saturday afternoon.

Press camp outside New York police station where IMF chief is being questioned
Mr Strauss-Kahn took over as head of the International Monetary Fund in November 2007. The 187-nation lending agency is based in Washington and provides help in the form of emergency loans for countries facing severe financial problems.

He won praise for his leadership at the IMF during the financial crisis of 2008 and the severe global recession that followed.

More recently, he has directed the IMF's participation in bailout efforts to keep a European debt crisis which began in Greece from destabilising the global economy.
In October 2008, Mr Strauss-Kahn issued an apology to the IMF staff after accusations that he had a sexual relationship with an IMF subordinate.

"While this incident constituted an error in judgment on my part, for which I take full responsibility, I firmly believe that I have not abused my position," he wrote in an email to IMF staff.
The IMF board found his actions "regrettable" and said they "reflected a serious error of judgment". The board found that the relationship was consensual.