The Manhattan District Attorney's Office is on the verge of dropping its case against former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn who was charged last May with raping a hotel housekeeper over concerns that she lied about the circumstances of the sexual encounter as reported by The New York Times: "since her initial allegation on May 14, the accuser has repeatedly lied, one of the law enforcement officials said." Among the Guinean woman's alleged lies identified by law enforcement incredibly is one about getting gang raped in her home country.
Moreover, a day after her supposed rape by DSK, she was caught in a recorded "conversation with an incarcerated man . . . in which she discussed the possible benefits of pursuing the charges against him":
That man, the investigators learned, had been arrested on charges of possessing 400 pounds of marijuana. He is among a number of individuals who made multiple cash deposits, totaling around $100,000, into the woman's bank account over the last two years.
Accordingly, there is concern that the hotel housekeeper may have caught the amorous banker in an old-fashioned honey trap, and then manufactured the rape charge as a platform by which to get rich. It's one of the oldest con games in the book, and if that was indeed the case here then shame on the NYPD and NYDA -- and all those who convicted DSK in the press -- for swallowing the story hook, line and sinker.
Further coverage:
"Case vs. Dominique Strauss-Kahn crumbling as would-be victim gets caught in web of lies, sources say" by the Daily News
"Maid who accused DSK of sexual assault repeatedly lied: sources" by the New York Post
UPDATE: DSK has been released from his house arrest bail conditions but prosecutors have not dropped the charges as the investigation continues as reported by the Daily News.
UPDATE: An unidentified source on DSK's defense team claims there is evidence suggesting the "accuser wasn't just a girl working at a hotel -- she was a working girl" as reported by Laura Italiano for the New York Post: "the Sofitel housekeeper who claims the former IMF boss sexually assaulted her in his room was doing double duty as a prostitute, collecting cash on the side from male guests, The Post has learned." Incredibly, a quoted source further alleged that she was "purposely assigned to the Midtown hotel by her union because it knew she would bring in big bucks":
"When you're a chambermaid at Local 6, when you first get to the US, you start at the motels at JFK [Airport]. You don't start at the Sofitel," the source said. "There's a whole squad of people who saw her as an earner."
These are serious allegations, and the NYPD and NYDA must investigate whether some union folks are running a prostitution racket out of the city's hotels.
Money apparently was on the maid's mind in a recorded telephone conversation which she allegedly had with "a boyfriend in an immigration jail" the day after the supposed rape as reported by The New York Times: "Don't worry, this guy has a lot of money. I know what I'm doing."
UPDATE: According to an unidentified source close to the defense investigation DSK alleges he rebuffed the maid's request for money after sex which got her panties in a vindictive bunch as reported by the New York Post.
