Is the Head of the IMF a Sex Criminal?

May. 21, 2011
DSK's $6M bail among the largest in NY history
By LAURA ITALIANO

They are the few, the rich, the seriously indicted. And they don't get out of jail free.

By posting a total of $6 million to secure his release from Rikers, Dominique Strauss-Kahn joins the rarified world of multi-millionaire felony indemnitors.

Seldom do America's bails go so high, say experts -- and those rare examples include some of the country's most notorious big-bucks baddies.

In New York State, Bernard Madoff and Tyco embezzler Dennis Kozlowski handed authorities $10 million cash each to secure their pre-disposition freedom.

Strauss-Kahn yesterday posted $1 million cash plus a $5 million bond secured by his wealthy wife's cash.

"His is one of the largest commercial bails ever in state history," said celebrity bondsman Ira Judelson, who handled the bond.

Strauss-Kahn's bond is backed by cash put up by his wife, Anne Sinclair -- money that falls somewhat short of the total $5 million. Judelson said that he has no worries that the disgraced international banker will welch on the loot.

Judelson wouldn't say how much the wife is paying him in fees. But bail bondsmen typically charge around five or six percent fees to write million-dollar bonds -- meaning Sinclaire could be out as much as a quarter million dollars just to pay for the bond to be written.

That's on top of what prosecutors estimated will be the family's $200,000 a month cost of security monitoring during his home confinement.

"This to me is a very comfortable bond because of the security that's set up," said Judelson, who has handled the bonds for such big names as Lil Wayne and Plaxico Burress.

"I'm not worried one bit about securing his return to court."

Wherever he winds up serving his confinement, Strauss-Kahn will be monitored by armed guards from the Stroz Friedberg security firm -- the same outfit that monitored Madoff's home confinement.

"Very few people can make a bail that high," said Judelson, who nearly handled the absolute bail record-holder: the whopping total $33 million bond requested in Brooklyn two years ago of Michail Sorodsky, a phony doctor accused of committing sexual abuses against anesthetized patients.

Sorodsky ultimately couldn't foot the bill.
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/dsk_bail_among_the_largest_in_ny_JY8kFHvtPulD8ESUB9qLqI

In New York State, Bernard Madoff and Tyco embezzler Dennis Kozlowski handed authorities $10 million cash each to secure their pre-disposition freedom.

I don't know if an extradition treaty exists between the US and France in such a case.

Let's clear up some confusion over extradition treaties between the U.S. and France; France does not have an extradition treaty with the U.S., whereby law enforcement officials here can force France to deport French nationals.
http://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/2011/05/17/french-law-prohibits-extraditing-dsk/

We were told by the lady judge, a concept sufficient to cause the Duke of Wellington to swoon clean away, that the Polanski case had nothing to do with the matter. So she got that right.

Hotel workers need panic buttons: New York lawmaker
Reuters
May 24, 2011

NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York hotel workers would have electronic "panic buttons" under a new bill proposed after then-IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn was charged with sexually assaulting a hotel maid.

"To my knowledge this would be the first in the nation," Democratic Assemblyman Rory Lancman, who represents the New York City Borough of Queens, said by telephone on Tuesday.

Lancman, who chairs the Assembly subcommittee on workplace safety, said attacks on hotel maids and housekeepers were relatively common although he had no data to support that.

"Unfortunately, a lot of men think that when they are away from home the normal rules of social conduct don't apply, and a young woman entering a hotel room, particularly if she looks like an undocumented immigrant who doesn't have the means to report (an assault) -- they think she's fair game," he said.

Strauss-Kahn faces charges of sexual assault and attempting to rape a housekeeper at the Sofitel hotel in New York on May 14. He is being held in an apartment in Manhattan under armed guard after being freed on bail on Friday.

Strauss-Kahn has denied the charges against him. He resigned as managing director of the International Monetary Fund last week.

Hotel workers needing urgent help could use the panic buttons to contact the hotel's front desk or its security and then police could be called if necessary, Lancman said.

Other industries, including utilities and industrial firms, already use such devices to protect workers who may be in remote locations, enabling them to swiftly and easily request help from co-workers or security.

"This reasonable proposal would ensure that thousands of hotel workers are not put at unnecessary risk," said Peter Ward, president of the New York Hotel & Motel Trades Council.

To become law, the bill would have to be enacted by the assembly and the state senate and then signed by Democratic Governor Andrew Cuomo.

Spokesmen for the governor and the leaders of the two legislative chambers had no immediate comment.
http://www.whnt.com/sns-rt-us-strausskhan-newytre74n6cd-20110524,0,5663749.story

I think it is suicidal for women to maintain this position. Men will end up simply avoiding them

I don't know if an extradition treaty exists between the US and France in such a case.

Answer me this--if DSK is guilty, and there is overwhelming evidence to say so, could he have been extradited from France?

Unless being felt up is the worst thing than can possibly happen.

If I was rich and famous pervert I think I might avoid NY altogether.

Why are you choosing to minimize what this man is accused of doing?

He is charged with criminal sexual assault in the first degree--a violent, forcible, sexual assault--which is a serious felony in NYS--and he faces up to 25 years in prison.

A condition your side have engineered with the connivance of certain interested parties.

I am not. I am merely trying to apply a sense of proportion.

UPDATED at 9:15 a.m.: New York police on Tuesday denied reports that they have found traces of Dominique Strauss-Kahn’s DNA on the clothes of his accuser, stressing that investigators have given “no result and no information” about the results, AFP reports.

A number of major media outlets had reported the existence of the DNA match, citing unnamed sources familiar with the testing. The Wall Street Journal, however, cited unnamed "law enforcement officials."

UPDATED at 9:45 a.m.: In a subsequent draft of the AFP article, the news wire clarifies that the NYPD isn't necessarily denying the reports, just denying that the department was the source of the news.

AFP's new lede (emphasis added): "New York police Tuesday denied being the source of news reports that traces of semen from ex-IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn on a chambermaid's clothes..."

The DNA match supports the account provided by the woman to police, but would also appear to be consistent with what Strauss-Kahn’s legal team has suggested may be his defense: that a sexual encounter did in fact occur when the woman came to clean his room but that it was consensual.

Those "interested parties" are the people of the state of NY.

The way things are going I assume such offences will soon be punished by penile restraint of the excruciating type and weekly floggings until giving up the ghost. Where are you going to draw the line. The direction is obvious. Female dignity being of such vital importance when there's nothing else left to do that doesn't get boring in an hour

I an not interested in arguing about the seriousness of the crimes DSK is charged with. That's obvious to anybody with a dispassionate view of these matters. Even assuming they were committed, the maid, a woman of experience, walked away with only her dignity injured