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DSK to Resume Bid for Presidency?

Missed deadline makes Socialist nomination tricky

(Newser) - If the judge dismisses the sexual assault charges against Dominique Strauss-Kahn today as expected, Strauss-Kahn could be on a plane bound for France within hours—and ready to re-enter the French presidential race, reports the Guardian . Although Strauss-Kahn missed the July deadline for joining the Socialist party's primary, another...

Prosecutors to DSK Judge: Drop Charges

Say accuser's story riddled with holes, lies

(Newser) - Dominique Strauss-Kahn’s accuser lied to prosecutors again and again, they allege in a court document full of what two sources to the New York Post call “bombshells.” The document calls for the case against Strauss-Kahn to be dismissed on grounds that Nafissatou Diallo—the alleged assault’s...

Source: DA to Drop Charges Against DSK

He could go free Tuesday; accuser feels 'abandoned'

(Newser) - Prosecutors will ask a judge to drop all criminal charges against Dominique Strauss-Kahn in a court hearing on Tuesday, which could allow him to go free immediately, a source tells the New York Post . The Manhattan DA will seek dismissal because Nafissatou Diallo, the maid accusing Strauss-Kahn of rape, faces...

DSK Lawyers Slam Leaked 'Rape' Report

Medical report states maid's injuries caused by rape

(Newser) - With less than a week to go until Dominique Strauss-Kahn's next court hearing, a leaked hospital report has reopened hostilities between his lawyers and those of the maid who says he attacked her. Medical notes from Nafissatou Diallo's first visit to a hospital after the May incident state:...

Maid Sues 'Sadistic' Strauss-Kahn

Seeks unspecified damages in civil lawsuit

(Newser) - A hotel maid who accuses ex-IMF boss Dominique Strauss-Kahn of sexual assault sued him today over what she calls a "violent and sadistic" attack that left her life "in shambles." Lawyers for Guinean immigrant Nafissatou Diallo wrote that Strauss-Kahn "intentionally, brutally, and violently sexually assaulted Ms....

DSK's Former Lover Comes to His Defense ... Kinda

There was probably a 'forced relation,' but 'he is who he is,' she says

(Newser) - A woman who claims to have had a nine-month affair with Dominique Strauss-Kahn in 1997 acknowledges that he can be sexually aggressive, but says that for her, "it was about passion, not about brutality." When she first heard of Nafissatou Diallo's allegations against Strauss-Kahn, the woman believed...

DSK Accuser Speaks at Church: 'Why Me?'

Nafissatou Diallo makes first public appearance

(Newser) - Nafissatou Diallo made her first public appearance last night, drawing more than 200 members of the media to Brooklyn's Christian Cultural Center to hear her speak. The New York Times calls her two-minute speech "halting, nerve-racked, soft-spoken-to-the-brink-of-inaudibility," and reports that she ended with a question: “I’...

Lawyer: Taped Chats Prove Hotel Maid Isn't a Liar

No evidence of extortion, says Nafissatou Diallo's lawyer

(Newser) - Nafissatou Diallo met with New York prosecutors for eight hours yesterday. On the agenda: listening to taped phone calls she had with an African immigrant inmate in an Arizona jail a short time after Dominique Strauss-Kahn allegedly sexually assaulted her, reports the Daily Beast . Diallo's lawyer says that the...

DSK Accuser: I Want Justice
 DSK Accuser: I Want Justice 
Jul 25, 2011 4:47 AM CDT

DSK Accuser: I Want Justice

Nafissatou Diallo rips Strauss-Kahn again, this time in ABC interview

(Newser) - In a one-two punch, the woman accusing Dominique Strauss-Kahn of attempted rape blasts him again—this time in a broadcast interview—just as her account of the attack hits newsstands in Newsweek magazine . "I want justice. I want him to go to jail," Nafissatou Diallo says in an...

Hotel Maid Accuser in Dominique Strauss-Kahn Case, Nafissatou Diallo, Speaks Out for First Time to Newsweek
 Hotel Maid: 
 DSK Was Like 
 'a Crazy Man' 
'newsweek' interview
Jul 24, 2011 4:17 PM CDT

Hotel Maid: DSK Was Like 'a Crazy Man'

Nafissatou Diallo speaks out, to 'Newsweek'

(Newser) - Newsweek offers the most detailed account yet of what allegedly happened in room 2806 of New York's Sofitel hotel on May 14, via an exclusive three-hour interview with Nafissatou Diallo—the maid accusing Dominique Strauss-Kahn of sexual assault. Diallo describes her experience to the magazine in vivid, graphic...

Dominique Strauss-Kahn's Ex-Wife Brigitte Guillemette May Sue Tristane Banon's Mother, Anne Mansouret
Strauss-Kahn's Ex-Wife
May Sue Accuser's Mother
'what a mess' dept
Jul 22, 2011 8:32 AM CDT

Strauss-Kahn's Ex-Wife May Sue Accuser's Mother

Brigitte Guillemette considering defamation suit against Anne Mansouret

(Newser) - A new twist in the increasingly bizarre case against Dominique Strauss-Kahn: His second wife may sue Anne Mansouret for defamation following Mansouret's recent claim that she had "brutal sex" with Strauss-Kahn . Brigitte Guillemette, in addition to often being called a friend of Mansouret's in news stories about...

Accuser's Mom: I Had 'Brutal Sex' With DSK

Anne Mansouret describes consensual, but aggressive, encounter

(Newser) - A new twist in the Dominique Strauss-Kahn sexual assault saga: Anne Mansouret says she had "brutal sex" with the former IMF chief three years before he allegedly attempted to rape her daughter, Tristane Banon. L'Express reports that Mansouret described DSK as behaving "like an obscene boor,"...

'Fiance' Vouches for Strauss-Kahn Accuser

But he has a history of manipulating women, reporters find

(Newser) - The Daily Beast has tracked down the jailed man involved with the maid accusing Dominique Strauss-Kahn of sexual assault. Amara Tarawally, 35, refers to the maid as his “fiancé,” and denied the (fairly sketchy) report that she’s a prostitute . She’s “a good lady, very honest,...

Poll: French Voters Prefer DSK to Sarkozy

But most don't want Strauss-Kahn to run

(Newser) - If French voters had to choose between Dominique Strauss-Kahn and Nicolas Sarkozy in next year's presidential election, the incumbent would be out of a job, a new poll finds. Some 54% would opt for the former IMF chief currently charged with attempted rape, according to the Independent , which notes...

NY Activists Back Strauss-Kahn Accuser

DA says investigation continues, despite maid's inconsistencies

(Newser) - A wide range of community leaders are standing behind the hotel maid accusing Dominique Strauss-Kahn of sex assault, even though her credibility has been hammered . "Rumors about this woman's past that have nothing to do with the case, and even if they were true should not prevent her...

Paris Prosecutors Probe DSK Rape Accusation

French authorities giving accusation against DSK official interest

(Newser) - The Paris prosecutor's office said today it has opened a preliminary investigation into accusations by a French writer that Dominique Strauss-Kahn tried to rape her. Novelist and journalist Tristane Banon filed a criminal complaint this week saying that Strauss-Kahn attacked her in an empty apartment in 2003 during an...

3 Theories About the Strauss-Kahn Incident

There was definitely a sexual encounter, but what kind?

(Newser) - The criminal case against Dominique Strauss-Kahn sure looks like it’s imploding, but we still don’t really know what happened in Room 2806. Physical evidence shows there was a sexual encounter, but it doesn't reveal which kind. The New York Times breaks down the possibilities:
  • A forced encounter:
...

Strauss-Kahn Maid Calls for New Prosecutor

DSK lawyers rule out plea bargain

(Newser) - The maid who has accused Dominique Strauss-Kahn of sex assault wants District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. to drop out before he drops the case . The woman's lawyers are urging Vance to step aside and let a special prosecutor take over, Reuters reports. The lawyers accuse a prosecutor in Vance'...

'Only Flaw' in Maid's DSK Accusation Was Aftermath

Case not so full of holes after all, Times reports

(Newser) - Perhaps the French shouldn't start popping their corks just yet for Dominique Strauss-Kahn. It turns out the hotel maid's account of a sexual assault by the former head of the IMF was very convincing, and the only inconsistencies in her story concerned what happened afterward, reports the New ...

Strauss-Kahn Accuser Sues New York Post

Her lawyers say report that she's a prostitute is libelous

(Newser) - The Dominique Strauss-Kahn case in New York City may disappear soon , but the DSK headlines keep coming. The maid who accused him of rape is suing the New York Post for reporting that she was a prostitute , notes Reuters . The stories were "an apparent desperate attempt to bolster its...

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