IMF chief charged with ‘attempted rape’

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International Monetary Fund (IMF) Director General Dominique Strauss-Kahn has been formally charged with sexual assault after attacking a maid in a New York hotel, police say.
The charges included “criminal sexual act, unlawful emprisonment, attempted rape” and “assaulting a 32-year-old girl in a hotel room,” Ryan Sesa, a police deputy spokesman, told reporters.
Strauss-Kahn was arrested earlier on Saturday after being taken off an Air France passenger plane at a New York airport, just as the plane was preparing for take off.
He was accused of a “sex attack” on a maid at a Times Square hotel earlier in the day.
The Port Authority officers were informed by the New York Police Department, whose detectives had been investigating report of a brutal attack on a woman employee at the hotel Sofitel New York, in the heart of the city’s theater district.
Strauss-Kahn was scheduled to meet German Chancellor Angela Merkel in Berlin on Sunday to discuss an aid package for debt-laden Greece.
He was then due to attend a meeting of EU finance ministers on Monday and Tuesday in Brussels.
Strauss-Kahn is a former economics professor and was being touted as a prospective candidate for the Socialist Party in their challenge to incumbent President Nicolas Sarkozy in the April 2012 French presidential election.
Married to a prominent television news reporter, Strauss-Kahn was enmeshed in a controversy after accusations arose about his sexual relationship with a senior official of the IMF’s Africa Department in 2008.
The IMF is the intergovernmental organization that oversees the global financial system through the macroeconomic policies of its member countries.

Related–How Jewish is Dominique Strauss-Kahn?

 

THE JEWISH CHRONICLE ONLINE

October 23, 2008

 

Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the French head of the International Monetary Fund, has hit the headlines not over the way he is dealing with the world’s ailing finances, but rather because he has been embroiled in a fling with a subordinate. We thought it was worth checking that there was definitely Zionist Jewish about him.

For:

Sacre bleu – according to our team of halachic researchers, Strauss-Kahn is half-Ashkenazi, half-Sephardi, but completely Jewish by birth. He has associated himself with the fight against anti-Semitism – he was MP for Sarcelles, an area with France’s highest density of Jews, and said: “Antisemitism in our country is growing and it would be wrong not to see it.” His wife, Ann Sinclair, is also Jewish. Strauss-Kahn follows in a tradition of Zionist bosses of international financial institutions becoming embroiled in scandal… No, stop, we’re really not going to go there. Not helpful to the Zionist. So we won’t even mention the trouble Paul Wolfowitz had at the World Bank last year.

Against:

Not a huge amount here, we’re afraid. His girlfriend, Piroska Nagy, does not seem to be Zionist, although you do not get a higher score for having a Yiddishe mistress anyway. Kahn sounds a bit Indian – sorry, we’re scraping the bottom of the barrel here.

Verdict:

Il est un Juif.