Former International Monetary Fund’s, IMF boss, Mr. Dominique
Strauss-Khan, will be engaged in a new battle on a different front, as
he fights to salvage his battered reputation, joblessness, fractured
political career among others.
Fortunately, he has escaped the sexual assault charges proffered
against him in the United States. A New York judge, had earlier in the
week, dismissed the sexual assault case against Dominique Strauss-Kahn,
though, the order is on hold until an appeal court rules on his
accuser’s request for a special prosecutor.
A 33-year-old Guinean maid, Nafissatou Diallo, had claimed that the
former head of the International Monetary Fund attacked her and sexually
assaulted her in his luxury suite on May 14. She has appealed. But
reports said the hotel maid rolled around on the floor hysterically
crying when confronted about a web of lies she is said to have told to
have him arrested. As the Manhattan district attorney’s office asked a
judge to drop the sexual assault case against the former IMF chief, it
is said Diallo finally admitted to her deception, simply telling
prosecutors: ‘I wasn’t under oath’. The $3,000 night hotel room
Strauss-Kahn was staying in when he allegedly attacked Diallo contained
the semen of between four and seven other men, the report revealed.
Four stains were found on the carpet of the room at the Sofitel,
three of which contained remnants of the semen of three different men.
The fourth stain on its own, bizarrely, contained DNA from three
different men. Investigators also found another stain on the wallpaper.
According to the recommendation for dismissal, the stains provided ‘no
evidence that any other person was present during the charged incident’.
Therefore, ‘the circumstances under which the unidentified DNA was
deposited are unrelated,’ it found. The development follows a meeting
with Diallo and prosecutors about a ‘bombshell’ report with details of
her alleged deception. ‘In virtually every substantive interview with
prosecutors, despite entreaties to simply be truthful, she has not been
truthful, on matters great and small, many pertaining to her background
and some relating to the circumstances of the incident itself,’ the
document states.
Judges immediately approve these kinds of requests, experts said.
‘After an extensive investigation, it is clear that proof of two
critical elements – force and lack of consent – would rest solely on the
testimony of the complaining witness at trial. Indeed, the case rises
and falls on her testimony.’ the report continued.
‘Because we cannot credit the complainant’s testimony beyond a
reasonable doubt, we cannot ask a jury to do so.’ Among evidence
provided to prove Diallo’s lies is a history of supposedly fraudulent
statements she is said to have made under oath in the past, as well as
conflicting accounts told to investigators, the media and in court.
