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2011-05-24 -Lurid Crime Tales-

Dominique Strauss-Kahn DNA found on maid's clothes

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Posted by phil_b 2011-05-24 03:30|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 "by having a history of these kind of wild reckless acts"

Problem is, this is just what he has

Posted by European Conservative 2011-05-24 05:16|| 2011-05-24 05:16|| Front Page Top

#2 Ha! Didn't Clinton become President inspite of his known baggage?

Posted by Jefferson 2011-05-24 06:47|| 2011-05-24 06:47|| Front Page Top

#3 Your olfactory sense is good, phil. But really, you've never known anyone in the upper reaches whose behavior was less than impeccable, far less? Seems like the USN losses a dozen captains a year for zipper control issues. One wonders about the behavior of the admirals who escaped detection.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2011-05-24 07:12|| 2011-05-24 07:12|| Front Page Top

#4 Betch'a he's going to jump his million-dollar bail, he's screwed now.

Posted by Redneck Jim 2011-05-24 08:02|| 2011-05-24 08:02|| Front Page Top

#5 It's clear he's a sleazebag, but serious criminal acts in a semi-public place with a complete stranger?

That says seriously impaired judgement. Hence the drugs suggestion.

Posted by phil_b 2011-05-24 08:21|| 2011-05-24 08:21|| Front Page Top

#6 Power is a potent drug.

Posted by European Conservative 2011-05-24 09:38|| 2011-05-24 09:38|| Front Page Top

#7 With drugs, without. It's not hard to imagine. Remember he's french.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2011-05-24 09:49|| 2011-05-24 09:49|| Front Page Top

#8 This case is getting weirder by the day.
Associates of the former IMF chief are alleged to have approached the relatives and offered a seven-figure sum to persuade the maid to withdraw charges

If she and the family fall for the money, she won't even have to withdraw charges, all she will have to do is give inconsistent evidence and and DSK can tap dance his way back to France as free as a bird.

Posted by tipper 2011-05-24 10:08|| 2011-05-24 10:08|| Front Page Top

#9 Ick. DNA on the maid's clothes -- what is it w/lefties and their lousy aim?

I agree that despite his $6 million in collateral, he will skip. Having had a taste of Riker's, the price is right, regarless of the cost.

Posted by regular joe 2011-05-24 10:13|| 2011-05-24 10:13|| Front Page Top

#10 It's clear he's a sleazebag, but serious criminal acts in a semi-public place with a complete stranger?

It is told Sarkozy warned him "Be careful in America. They are dead serious there". DSK probably thought that he could get away like he would have in France.

Posted by JFM 2011-05-24 10:36|| 2011-05-24 10:36|| Front Page Top

#11 I agree that despite his $6 million in collateral, he will skip.

It's not just the $1 million cash and whatever percent of the $5 mil. bond paid out from his wife's money. It's the tracker ankle bracelet, the round-the-clock guard (at $200,00/year, again paid out of his wife's money), the video cameras, and the passport he turned in. If he does skip town, his wife will suddenly become considerably less well off, during a time of financial uncertainty.

Posted by trailing wife 2011-05-24 11:16|| 2011-05-24 11:16|| Front Page Top

#12 "by having a history of these kind of wild reckless acts"

Here's a Youtube link to Tristane Banon's account of a sexual assault by Strauss-Kahn.
The alleged assault happened in 2002, the talk show aired in 2007. There are English subs, click the 'CC' button if they don't show up automatically.

Posted by Spelet Hapsburg1905 2011-05-24 11:56|| 2011-05-24 11:56|| Front Page Top

#13 It's clear he's a sleazebag, but serious criminal acts in a semi-public place with a complete stranger?

He's also reportedly a patron of New York's madam to the stars...I'd guess he's a pretty regular sleazebag.

Posted by Lumpy Elmoluck5091 2011-05-24 12:09|| 2011-05-24 12:09|| Front Page Top

#14 No rat, just French culture.

"The arrest in New York of former International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn on charges of attempted rape is forcing men to watch what they say and emboldening women to challenge the modern-day version of Frances droit de cuissage, a feudal practice giving masters the right to have sex with female servants."

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-05-23/strauss-kahn-new-york-case-may-curb-libertine-ways-of-powerful-french-men.html

Posted by Captain Juque4132 2011-05-24 12:32|| 2011-05-24 12:32|| Front Page Top

#15 APEE:
Anne Sinclair is sacrificing millions of her familys fortune on her husbands bail and house arrest. Dominique Strauss-Kahn declared his love for his wife in a public letter, and blew her a kiss across a New York courtroom where he was charged with trying to rape a hotel maid....
Sinclair quickly issued a statement saying she didnt believe the allegations. A few days later, he submitted a letter of resignation to the IMF, telling the moneyed institution: I think at this time first of my wife whom I love more than anything of my children, of my family, of my friends.....Sinclair, granddaughter of renowned art merchant Paul Rosenberg, is footing the bill for the $1 million bail, securing the $5 million bond, and an estimated $200,000 a month for the guards and other security measures to ensure the house arrest, according to Martinat.

It wouldn't take much to turn this into a great Dan Brown novel/conspiracy theory. A Jewish banker rapes a black devout Muslim, married to a wealthy Sinclair, with his sights on ruling France; Sinclair, a form of St. Clair, the Knight Templar and Grand Master of the Priory of Sion, thought to harbor Temple treasure raided during the Crusades; upon ex-communication and death threats, they went underground to become the great banking and merchant shipping lines that supposedly continue today.
And from Wiki re: Priory of Sion:
Myth

Plantard's plot

Primarily motivated by grandiosity, a romantic reactionary ideology, and the prospect of fame and fortune, Plantard set out to have the Priory of Sion perceived as a prestigious esoteric Christian chivalric order, whose members would be people of influence in the fields of finance, politics and philosophy, devoted to installing the "Grand Monarch", prophesied by Nostradamus, on the throne of France. Plantard's choice of the pseudonym "Chyren" was a reference to "Chyren Selin", Nostradamus's anagram for the name for this Great King.
Between 1961 and 1984, Plantard contrived a mythical pedigree for the Priory of Sion claiming that it was the offshoot of a real Roman Catholic religious order housed in the Abbey of Sion, which had been founded in the Kingdom of Jerusalem during the First Crusade in 1099 and later absorbed by the Jesuits in 1617. The mistake is often made that this Abbey of Sion was a Priory of Sion, but there is a difference between an abbey and a priory. Calling his original 1956 group "Priory of Sion" presumably gave Plantard the later idea to claim that his organisation had been historically founded by crusading knight Godfrey of Bouillon on Mount Zion near Jerusalem during the Middle Ages.
The tomb inscribed with the cryptic phrase "Et in Arcadia ego" in Nicolas Poussin's late 1630s painting Arcadian Shepherds was appropriated for Priory of Sion myth-making.
Furthermore, Plantard was inspired by a 1960 magazine Les Cahiers de l'Histoire to center his personal genealogical claims, as found in the "Priory of Sion documents", on the Merovingian king Dagobert II, who had been assassinated in the 7th century. He also adopted "Et in Arcadia ego ...", a slightly altered version of a Latin phrase that most famously appears as the title of two paintings by Nicolas Poussin, as the motto of both his family and the Priory of Sion, because the tomb which appears in these paintings resembled one in the Les Pontils area near Rennes-le-Château. This tomb would become a symbol for his dynastic claims as the last legacy of the Merovingians on the territory of Razès, left to remind the select few who have been initiated into these mysteries that the "lost king", Dagobert II, would figuratively come back in the form of a hereditary pretender.

To give credibility to the fabricated lineage and pedigree, Plantard and his friend, Philippe de Chérisey, needed to create "independent evidence". So during the 1960s, they created and deposited a series of false documents, the so-called Dossiers Secrets d'Henri Lobineau ("Secret Files of Henri Lobineau"), at the Bibliothèque nationale de France in Paris. During the same decade, Plantard commissioned de Chérisey to forge a series of medieval parchments. These documents contained encrypted messages that referred to the Priory of Sion. They adapted, and used to their advantage, the earlier false claims put forward by Noël Corbu that a Catholic priest named Bérenger Saunière had supposedly discovered ancient parchments inside a pillar while renovating his church in Rennes-le-Château in 1891. Inspired by the popularity of media reports and books in France about the discovery of the Dead Sea scrolls in the West Bank, they hoped this same theme would attract attention to their parchments. Their version of the parchments was intended to prove Plantard's claims about the Priory of Sion being a medieval society that was the source of the "underground stream" of esotericism in Europe.Plantard then enlisted the aid of author Gérard de Sède to write a book based on his unpublished manuscript and forged parchments, alleging that Saunière had discovered a link to a hidden treasure.The 1967 book L'or de Rennes, ou La vie insolite de Bérenger Saunière, curé de Rennes-le-Château ("The Gold of Rennes, or The Strange Life of Bérenger Saunière, Priest of Rennes-le-Château"), which was later published in paperback under the title Le Trésor Maudit de Rennes-le-Château ("The Accursed Treasure of Rennes-le-Château"), became a popular read in France. In 1969, English actor and science-fiction scriptwriter Henry Lincoln became intrigued after reading Le Trésor Maudit. He discovered one of the encrypted messages, which read "À Dagobert II Roi et à Sion est ce trésor, et il est là mort" ("To Dagobert II, King, and to Sion belongs this treasure and he is there dead"). This was possibly an allusion to the tomb and shrine of Sigebert IV, a mythical son of Dagobert II which would not only prove that the Merovingian dynasty did not end with the death of the king but that the Priory of Sion has been entrusted with the duty to protect his relics like a treasure. Lincoln expanded on the conspiracy theories, writing his own books on the subject, and creating a series of BBC Two documentaries in the 1970s about the mysteries of the Rennes-le-Château area. In response to a tip from Gérard de Sède, Lincoln claims he was also the one who discovered the Dossiers Secrets, a series of planted genealogies which appeared to further confirm the link with the extinct Merovingian bloodline. The documents claimed that the Priory of Sion and the Knights Templar were two fronts of one unified organisation with the same leadership until 1188.

Posted by Lumpy Elmoluck5091 2011-05-24 13:02|| 2011-05-24 13:02|| Front Page Top

#16 Anne Sinclair is a Sinclair due to a family name change in 1949 from Schwartz. That probably precludes the Catholic Knights Templar connection.

Posted by Captain Juque4132 2011-05-24 13:39|| 2011-05-24 13:39|| Front Page Top

#17 It was "seduction" says the old geezer. Put me on the jury.

Posted by Flesing the Bald9034 2011-05-24 15:22|| 2011-05-24 15:22|| Front Page Top

#18 Oh great, thanks Captain Juque4132 for giving the ending away...

Posted by Steve White 2011-05-24 16:43|| 2011-05-24 16:43|| Front Page Top

#19 DSK only has a few millions, his wife is said to possess at least 40 millions. She could afford to forsake a townhouse in Georgetown they will never live in again.

But DSK will not flee (yet). The victim will need to be incredibly brave.

Posted by European Conservative 2011-05-24 18:08|| 2011-05-24 18:08|| Front Page Top

#20

Posted by tu3031 2011-05-24 18:47|| 2011-05-24 18:47|| Front Page Top

#21 If my wife bails me out of this mess, I'd be safer off hiding out at Rikers rather than going home with her...

Posted by Capsu78 2011-05-24 20:12|| 2011-05-24 20:12|| Front Page Top

#22 They are peasants, peasants I tell you! Little people. What is so wrong with casting our sperm upon them? Anne, Anne, Anne... pay these people off and get me out of this vile mess. If only I were a Kennedy or a Clinton. These pompous Americans, I hate them so.

Posted by Besoeker 2011-05-24 20:19|| 2011-05-24 20:19|| Front Page Top

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