Strauss-Kahn Held In Jail After Bail Denied

11:13am UK, Tuesday May 17, 2011

Dominique Strauss-Kahn is being held at the notorious Rikers prison in New York after being denied bail.
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The head of the International Monetary Fund is in a cramped 11ft-by-13ft cell - less than a week after staying in a $3,000-a-day hotel suite.

Instead of his marble bathroom, a king-sized bed and feather and down duvet from the Sofitel near Times Square, he has only the most basic supplies.

On arrival at the prison the economist was given rudimentary bedding, a drinking cup, soap, shampoo and toothpaste.

He was also physically and psychologically examined before being separated from other inmates in case he is attacked.



Dominique Strauss-Kahn at Manhattan Criminal Court


Mr Strauss-Kahn, 62, has been accused of sexual assaulting a hotel maid at the Sofitel on Saturday when she arrived to clean his room.

He allegedly emerged from his bathroom naked, dragged the maid from the corridor and then attacked her.

The economist was located by police after he rang the hotel to say he had left behind his mobile phone and told staff he was at JFK Airport.

He was removed from a flight by two officers minutes before it was due to take off and returned to the city.



Mr Strauss-Kahn in court as the prosecutors outline the allegations


His legal team insist he is innocent of the charges which include attempted rape, sexual abuse and unlawful imprisonment.

They proposed a $1m bail and said he could wear an electronic tag.

But Judge Melissa Jackson, at Manhattan Criminal Court, denied bail - claiming there was a risk he might flee back to France.

She said: "When I hear your client was at JFK airport about to board a flight, that raises some concerns."

The 32-year-old hotel maid, an African immigrant, claims Mr Strauss-Kahn dragged her from the hall into a bathroom, where she was made to perform oral sex on him.

She says she managed to free herself when the IMF chief started to remove her underwear and she then ran downstairs to raise the alarm.

Assistant district attorney John McConnell told the court: "The defendant restrained a hotel employee against her will.

"He sexually assaulted her and tried to rape her. When he was unsuccessful, he forced her to perform oral sex on him."

Mr McConnell said the alleged victim, who picked the IMF boss out of a police line-up, had given a "powerful account".

He added: "The crime scene unit has processed the hotel room. Preliminary evidence suggests there are findings that will support the victims version of events."

Plenty of sex for him in there.

Unless the man is completely mad--in which case why is he in the powerful position he holds? this smells of a set up to me. The fate of debt ridden EU countries in his hands and strongly touted as the next President of France----hmmm! He's finished now whatever the outcome.

he has been set up and he is in a country of liars and crooks.
i have been many times on business hookers every corner .
and the hotels are full of them scrubers
i always told the desk NO maids in my room while i was in it .
there is twice has many than in the rest of the world

Sounds like a set up, but with his previous it will finish him even if he gets found not guilty.

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Hope this is not his cell mate.

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Scary dude.

He must like British has a Rolls Royce tat.

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His lawyer successfully defended pop star Michael Jackson from child molestation charges in 2005.

Looks like he has got a top brief.

Looks like the KKK have left their robes in court.

Mr. Strauss-Kahn may also face further scrutiny related to his alleged assault on a young novelist named Tristane Banon. Ms. Banon said in a television interview in 2007 that she had been sexually attacked during an interview she conducted five years earlier with Mr. Strauss-Kahn, whose name was beeped out in the broadcast. He was acting like a rutting chimpanzee, she said then.

On Monday, Ms. Banon said that she would be pressing a criminal complaint against the IMF chief. She offered a terse announcement on her Twitter account: I will speak shortly to the media. For now, a complaint has been lodged at the police headquarters of the 11th [arrondissement of Paris].

Nicolas Sarkozy dismay as Dominique Strauss-Kahn in sex scandal

From another perv lol

After the hearing, the 62-year-old was first taken to the rough New York detention centre known as The Tombs and then to the Rikers Island complex of jails.

Rikers is a maze of 10 jails on a 400-acre island on the East River near LaGuardia airport between Queens and the Bronx.

The site was originally owned by a Danish settler but when he sold it to the state, it became a penitentiary.

It holds about 11,000 inmates, employs 10,000 officers and costs the New York tax payer $860m a year to run.

Gerald Lefcourt, a defence lawyer, said: "It's crowded and the food is terrible. And one of the dangerous things is famous people are preyed upon.

"There are really heavy-duty prison bars and gates that make a lot of clanging sounds every time they are opened and closed."

Mr Strauss-Kahn is being held in the West Facility, which is the smallest of the 10 jails in the complex and designed for inmates with communicable diseases.

Although he is healthy, the design allows him to be separated from inmates who might try to attack him.

He is one of between 25 and 30 inmates in the jail and will be totally isolated from the other prisoners - even when he is allowed out of his cell to exercise or watch TV.



Dominique Strauss-Kahn is being held in protective custody


The economist is allowed one hour a day to exercise and can have three visitors a week as well as his lawyer.

Inmates are woken at 6am and lights go out at 11pm.

On arrival, the IMF boss was given bedding and a toiletry kit containing a drinking cup, soap, shampoo and toothpaste.

Like any other new inmate, he was also given a psychological and physical exam when guards look for tattoos or other signs of gang affiliation.

Jail officials then assign a score to determine the inmate's security risk.

It is thought Mr Strauss-Kahn will be able to wear his own clothes with jail-issued slippers. He will be able to read his own books and a daily newspaper.

Rikers is said to be hated because of its vast size and the uncertain future many inmates face while they are on remand.

Hope he got his KY gel

French appear to think he's as guilty as feck and been getting away with similar stuff in France for years but WTFDIK ?



Bernard M - 17 May 2011 12:04 - 13 of 18
His lawyer successfully defended pop star Michael Jackson from child molestation charges in 2005.

Looks like he has got a top brief.





Says it all.

.... but the US trying to take control of IMF (via 3rd parties) from Europe has got nothing to do with it , like feck !

I saw an American guy discussing this on CNN. He claimed that in France many people were saying "how could they be so cruel to Strauss-Kahn".

Mind you he is the author of a book called '1,000 ways to annoy the French'.