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DSK granted bail and formally indicted; will appear in court June 6
Dominique Strauss-Kahn on Thursday was granted bail by a judge in a New York court, after being formally charged with trying to rape a hotel maid. Strauss-Kahn had earlier resigned as the International Monetary Fund's boss. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rules1 million Euro ! ..... not 1 million US$ !
May 20th, 2011 - 07:04 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“He said Strauss-Kahn had the means to live “a life of ease and comfort” in parts of the world “beyond this country's jurisdiction”. But defence lawyer, William Taylor, said: “The prospect of Mr Strauss-Kahn teleporting himself to France and living there as an accused sex offender, fugitive, is ludicrous.””
May 20th, 2011 - 07:35 pm - Link - Report abuse 0He could very easily escape to live free in Brasil.
Brasil has a world-wide reputation for refusing to hand over for crimes committed elsewhere
bank-robbers (to the UK) and
multi-murderers (to Italy).
Anyone else thought that this could be another set-up à la Julian Assange?
May 20th, 2011 - 09:00 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I think that it is a complete set-up. I have never stayed in a U.S. hotel where a maid would enter an occupied hotel room, especially when the occupant is taking a shower!
May 20th, 2011 - 10:08 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. charged Strauss-- Kahn “” with sexual abuses........“”
May 21st, 2011 - 09:59 am - Link - Report abuse 0Who is Cyrus Vance Jr ?
He is the son of late Cyrus Vance who served Secretary of State during Carter Administration...
Nicholas Sarkozy's step father Frank G. Wisner , prominent CIA official ( who married his step mother Christine de Ganay in 1977) served as Deputy Secretary of State under the Cyrus Vance Senior,father of Cyrus Vance Jr......
Vance and Wisner families has close ties,Nicholas Sarkozy has close ties with step father Frank.G.Wisner who has half brothers and sisters who live in US.....
Who is Wisner Family ?
Frank Wisner is the son of US ' s most notorious spies,Frank Gardiner Wisner ( 1909 -- 1965) ,the mastermined behind CIA sponsored coup which knocked the government of Mohammed Mossadegh in Iran 1953, Frank Wisner is also the trustee of Rockefeller Trust...
Frank Wisner also played a key role as Obama's special intelligence envoy to Egypt at the height of January 2011 protests....
@5 Interesting. Also, the man hasn't been convicted of anything yet but one would think so from the media campaign.
May 21st, 2011 - 06:06 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@4 Not in the US but it happened to me when I was staying at the Palacio Duhau in BsAs. I stepped out of the shower as the butler walked in to the room, despite the DND sign being on the door. lol. Nothing untoward happened after that though, save a few blushes! I am sure that must be rare.
Oh, Elaine, you little tease.
May 21st, 2011 - 10:00 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Some of us males might have heart problems.
Lub, dup. . lub, dup . . lub, dup . . . lub, lub, lub . . . . d.u..p
#6 Elaine - A “butler” at a Hyatt hotel? Wow! Your income must be a little more than mine.
May 21st, 2011 - 11:29 pm - Link - Report abuse 0The butler service comes as standard there but I have never used it. I have been able to dress myself and draw a bath for years without assistance...: )
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