From the NYT:
The managing director of the International Monetary Fund, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, was taken off an Air France plane at Kennedy International Airport minutes before it was to depart for Paris on Saturday, in connection with the sexual attack of a maid at a Midtown Manhattan hotel, the authorities said.
Mr. Strauss-Kahn, 62, who was widely expected to become the Socialist candidate for the French presidency, was apprehended by detectives of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey in the first-class section of the jetliner, and immediately turned over to detectives from the Midtown South Precinct, officials said.
The New York Police Department arrested Mr. Strauss-Kahn at 2:15 a.m. Sunday “on charges of criminal sexual act, attempted rape, and an unlawful imprisonment in connection with a sexual assault on a 32-year-old chambermaid in the luxury suite of a Midtown Manhattan hotel yesterday” about 1 p.m., Deputy Commissioner Paul J. Browne, the department’s chief spokesman, said.
What does one say to this? Should we even feign surprise anymore? OS can imagine the chatter amongst his colleagues, to the effect of: What an idiot to get caught! He has the approved list of NYC hookers anyway!
He's sitting in his cell thinking: Damn! Bill Clinton got away with it, repeatedly! He told me all about it! People love Bill Clinton! Besides, it's not like I did anything to a real person or anything! Sacre-bleu, it's just a chambermaid, and isn't that what chambermaids are for?
JDA has her own take on it.
As does Denninger.
OS predicts: This will be Monday's headline, he will make bail and promise-promise-promise to show up to court honest. LARGE amounts of cash and teams of lawyers investigating every nook and cranny of the complainant's history will appear in the chambermaid's life, with the the concomitant threat to ruin her and her family through all the second cousins if she refuses the cash and insists on continuing the prosecution. She will be characterized as the aggressor, a hooker on the take, etc. Wait for it. And, who knows, maybe this is a trumped-up accusation.
The whole thing will be explained away as a misunderstanding, again with large amounts of cash lubricating the process.
Dominique will have spent his final day in jail, have great stories to tell at cocktail parties, and the world will go on. Greece will burn, Spain and Portugal will slump into despond, Ireland will finally decide, like Iceland, to give Brussels the middle finger.
And he'll vow confine his rape activity to economies and servant staff in France.
Move on. Nothing to see here.
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