from Judy Miriga

Folks,

In my view, I think the case was rushed, the proof of sexual act evidence was clear found that sex occured…..was there enough time to exhaust related case to the claim or fair compensation?…..I doubt, this did not happen……

Does this poor black African Girl have a RIGHT to demand how she was sexually treated against her wish irrespective of her past which has a set of new take, and had no connection to the case…..???……..I think the case was not fairly and exhaustively concluded……I think this is the bigger picture of what is missing in this case……..so, there could have been a conspiracy of some sort, the judgement may conclude we should not know about……..!

This is a poor weaker African Girl Verses a Wealthier Billionnaire IMF Banker……. Verdict could not have played fairly here…….The Poor Vs. The Rich……easy to guess possible answer after the freedom from house arrest verdict……..

I do not know what the World think about this……..Sad to say….that all did not go well at this stage………!

The girl have remained with a stigma of the case that was viewed all over the world without any slightest compensation, and Strauss-Kahn who sexed on her against her wish, was set free……I can just imagine…….and I will not hesitate to say, this is a Violation of Human Rights…..

To be set free, Mr. Strauss-Kahn could easily buy his freedom and the case thrown to the Abyss never to be heard again……..

This could possibly be a race card being played……How sad…….

Judy Miriga
Diaspora Spokesperson
Executive Director
Confederation Council Foundation for Africa Inc.,
USA
http://socioeconomicforum50.blogspot.com

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Strauss-Kahn free from house arrest; charges stand
By JENNIFER PELTZ – Associated Press,TOM HAYS – Associated Press | AP – Fri, Jul 1, 2011

NEW YORK (AP) — Former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn walked out of court without bail Friday, freed from house arrest, after prosecutors acknowledged serious questions about the credibility of the hotel housekeeper who accused him of sexual assault.

The charges, which include attempted rape, were not dropped, but the easing of his bail conditions signaled that prosecutors do not believe the accusations are as ironclad as they once seemed.

“It is a great relief,” said Strauss-Kahn’s attorney, William Taylor. “It is so important in this country that people, especially the media, refrain from judgment until the facts are all in.”

After his arrest, Strauss-Kahn, 62, resigned from his post leading the International Monetary Fund and watched his presidential ambitions in France seemingly crumble. He had been confined for weeks to a luxury New York City loft on $6 million in cash and bond.

The 32-year-old hotel maid accused Strauss-Kahn of chasing her through his luxury suite in May, trying to pull down her pantyhose and forcing her to perform oral sex. Authorities have said they have forensic evidence of a sexual encounter, but defense lawyers have said it wasn’t forced.

The stark turn in the case came after the woman admitted to prosecutors she had made up a story of being gang-raped and beaten in her homeland of Guinea to enhance her application for political asylum, prosecutors said in a letter to defense lawyers.

She also misrepresented what she did after the alleged attack — instead of fleeing to a hallway and waiting for a supervisor, she went to clean another room and then returned to clean Strauss-Kahn’s suite before telling her supervisor that she had been attacked, prosecutors said.

She also misrepresented her income and claimed someone else’s child as her own dependent on tax returns, they said.

The details speak to the maid’s credibility and whether her story would stand up under oath in a prosecution that would rely heavily on her testimony.

The woman’s attorney, Ken Thompson, fired back outside court, saying the district attorney’s office was backing away from the case because it was too scared to prosecute it. He said she would come out in public to tell her story but didn’t specify when.

Thompson said the woman went to the district attorney with information that her asylum application was flawed, but that she exaggerated on it because she was scared she would be sent back to Guinea. He said she came to the U.S. because she was a victim of female genital mutilation, and she worried her daughter, now 15, would be victimized as well. He also said she had been raped by soldiers there, but that attack did not occur as it was written in her asylum application.

Thompson said that Strauss-Kahn bruised the woman’s genitals, tore a ligament in her shoulder and ripped her stockings, and that she fought to get away.

Investigators have said they found traces of his semen on her uniform.

“From day one she has described a violent sexual assault that Dominique Strauss-Kahn committed against her,” Thompson said. “She has described that sexual assault many times, to prosecutors and to me, and she has never once changed a single thing about that encounter.”

Thompson also said that news reports saying his client was involved with a drug dealer were lies.

The New York Times, quoting unidentified law enforcement official, reported that the woman was recorded on the phone with an incarcerated man around the day she made the allegations, discussing whether to press her case in court.

The newspaper said the man had been arrested on marijuana possession charges and had deposited cash in the woman’s bank account.

“It is clear that this woman made some mistakes, but that doesn’t mean she’s not a rape victim,” Thompson said.

Strauss-Kahn arrived at the courthouse Friday morning in a Lexus SUV and strode confidently up the granite steps with his wife, French journalist Anne Sinclair, at his side.

After the hearing, he slowly walked out the building with his arm on her shoulder, smiling at the throng gathered outside.

He was not given back his passport, and he will not yet be allowed to leave the country. His other attorney, Benjamin Brafman, said Strauss-Kahn would be free to travel within the U.S.

Prosecutors offered few details inside court on the turn in the case. Assistant District Attorney Joan Illuzzi-Orbon said a further investigation caused them to reassess it.

“At the time this case came to the district attorney’s office, we were faced with a credible claim of a serious sexual assault,” she said, noting the accuser had promptly reported the alleged attack and had a “solid work history.”

State Supreme Court Justice Michael Obus, in releasing Strauss-Kahn, said there would be no rush to judgment either way.

Illuzzi-Orbon said, “Although it is clear that the strength of the case has been affected by the substantial credibility issues regarding the complainant, we are not moving to dismiss the case at this time.”

If the case collapses, it could once again shake up the race for the French presidency. Strauss-Kahn, a prominent Socialist, had been seen as a leading potential challenger to conservative President Nicolas Sarkozy in next year’s elections — until the New York allegations embarrassed his party and led to his resignation from the IMF.

“Those who know Dominique Strauss-Kahn will not be surprised by this evolution of events,” one of his French lawyers, Leon Lef Forster, told The Associated Press in Paris. “What he was accused of has no relation to his personality. It was something that was not credible.”

New doubts about Strauss-Kahn’s accuser would also revive speculation of a conspiracy against Strauss-Kahn aimed at torpedoing his presidential chances. Within days of his arrest, a poll suggested that a majority of French think Strauss-Kahn, who long had a reputation as a womanizer and was nicknamed “the great seducer,” was the victim of a plot.

Strauss-Kahn was held without bail for nearly a week after his May arrest. His lawyers ultimately persuaded a judge to release him by agreeing to extensive — and expensive — conditions, including an ankle monitor, surveillance cameras and armed guards. He was allowed to leave only for court, weekly religious services and visits to doctors and his lawyers.

The security measures were estimated to cost him $200,000 a month, on top of the $50,000-a-month rent on the townhouse in the city’s TriBeCa neighborhood.

Under New York law, judges base bail decisions on such factors as the defendant’s character, financial resources and criminal record, as well as the strength of the case — all intended to help gauge how likely the person is to flee if released.

Strauss-Kahn is slated to return to court July 18.

Online:
Prosecutors’ letter: http://www.courts.state.ny.us/press/index.shtml
DSK Accuser’s African Connection
The sexual assault case against Dominique Strauss-Kahn is crumbling. Was there a shakedown? A conspiracy? The answers will come from New York’s West African community.
July 1, 2011 7:54 AM EDT

At the 2115 Café on Frederick Douglass Boulevard in Harlem, where the hotel chambermaid who accused Dominique Strauss-Kahn of criminal sexual assault used to spend much of her free time, there are some interesting pictures on the wall. One shows owner Ibrahim “Abe” Fofanah, 46, gripping and grinning with a police captain. Another shows him with New York City Police Commissioner Ray Kelly.

But pride of place goes to the photograph of Fofanah and Alpha Condé, who was elected last November as president of Guinea, the country from which DSK’s accuser immigrated and requested political asylum. Condé, as it turns out, also has extensive ties to major political players in France, including people close to—wait for it—both President Nicolas Sarkozy and Strauss-Kahn, who had been expected to be the incumbent’s main challenger in next year’s elections. You can see why the conspiracy-minded French find the case so fascinating.

The May 15 arrest of DSK and his subsequent resignation from his powerful position as director of the International Monetary Fund seemed to end his presidential prospects. That was such a lucky break for the very unpopular Sarkozy that many French people found the story incredible to the point of implausibility. Some 57 percent, when polled soon after the arrest, said they thought somebody (the poll didn’t ask who) had set up DSK.

NYPD detectives initially ordered the arrest of Strauss-Kahn as he was about to leave JFK airport on a flight to Paris because the accuser’s testimony and corroborating accounts gave them probable cause to believe he had committed a serious crime. The charges included criminal sexual assault and attempted rape, and DNA evidence of sexual contact between the accuser and Strauss-Kahn supported the case. Initially, the police did not conduct extensive interviews of the accuser’s close associates in the African community. But the cops did not stop investigating once DSK was arraigned.

“You want to check everything – everything,” said a law enforcement source familiar with the case who is not authorized to talk on the record. “You have to know if you are going to have something that will hold up in court.” Probable cause is not enough for a jury to convict; guilt must be proved beyond a reasonable doubt. “If the further investigation shows that you don’t have that kind of proof,” said the same source, “then you want to show that the NYPD was doing its job.”

Blake Diallo speaks at a press conference on May 19, 2011, inset: Dominique Strauss-Kahn, May 15, 2011,

So, according to this source, more detectives were assigned to look at the accuser’s possible criminal associations. Strauss-Kahn had hired TD International, an international investigating and troubleshooting firm with extensive CIA connections, to dig into the accuser’s background and connections. But the NYPD appears to have turned up the most damaging information first.

As The Daily Beast’s John Solomon confirmed earlier this morning, there were inconsistencies in the accuser’s asylum application when she came to the United States, unusual financial transactions into her personal accounts, and she had contacts with an incarcerated drug suspect. The day after she allegedly suffered the Strauss-Kahn assault, she was recorded talking to the suspect in jail about the possibility of getting money by proceeding with the charges against Strauss-Kahn. According to The New York Times, which first reported the concerns of prosecutors Thursday night, the woman had five different phones and had received as much as $100,000 into her accounts in the last two years from the man in prison and others, although those were not thought to be linked in any way to the DSK case.

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While the accuser’s ties to these alleged criminal elements did raise serious doubts, law enforcement sources say they have not come across anything to suggest a premeditated conspiracy.
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While the accuser’s ties to these alleged criminal elements did raise serious doubts, law enforcement sources say they have not come across anything to suggest a premeditated conspiracy.

The links of 2115 Café owner Fofanah to the accuser were self-proclaimed almost from the beginning. Fofanah is a successful entrepreneur and an indefatigable self-promoter who initially made money running a courier service that served the garment district and subsequently opened the café precisely to make it a social center for the West African community in New York, which is thought to number at least 60,000.

Just two days after Strauss-Kahn’s arrest, Fofanah and the restaurant manager, Blake Diallo, held a press conference on Frederick Douglass Boulevard to vouch for the woman’s character. She was a simple mother, they said, just trying to raise her teenage daughter in peace. Diallo described himself then as her brother, but later said that was just a manner of speaking; in fact he was just a friend. She is from Guinea and Blake Diallo is from Senegal, but both are from the large Fulla ethnic group, which spans several West African countries. It was Diallo who got the accuser her first lawyer, Jeffrey Shapiro. “He found him on the Internet,” said Fofanah. “He’s now off the case.” The accuser has been represented since last month by the more high-powered firm of Thompson-Wigdor.

Over a long lunch of okra and rice with Fofanah and Diallo at the 2115 last month, they continued to express their support for the woman, but with a certain reserve. “We don’t know the details,” said Fofanah, “but the message the community is sending is that we stand with her until all the facts are out.” When I reached Fofanah by phone early this morning, he said he had heard about the new developments in the case but said, “I don’t know anything about it.”