Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the president of the IMF, and a leading figure in the French Socialist party, was pulled off an Air France flight about to leave Kennedy airport tonight because he was accused of sexual assault on a hotel maid.
Here is the NYT link.
In the New York case, Mr. Browne said it was about 1 p.m. on Saturday when the maid, a 32-year-old woman, entered to clean Mr. Strauss-Kahn’s room.
“He came out of the bathroom, fully naked, and attempted to sexually assault her,” Mr. Browne said.
At some point during the assault, the woman broke free, Mr. Browne said, and “she fled, reported it to other hotel personnel who called 911. When the police arrived, he was not there.” Mr. Browne said it appeared that Mr. Strauss-Kahn left in a hurry. Investigators found his cellphone in the room, which he had left behind, he said.
This is another absolutely disgusting example of just how corrupt the global corporate and political leadership is.
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When I saw the story this evening, it turned my stomach. I am just sick of these men acting like they have all the power over everyone in the world - even a poor hotel maid who comes into their room.
I hope he is jailed in the US for this.
I cannot believe the level of corruption that exists at the top levels of corporate finance and government. We have become a society where the corruption is so widespread as to be unremarkable anymore.
Without even going to google, we have a Senator paying off the husband of his mistress, we have a presidential candidate (Gingrich) who was carrying on an affair at the same time as he was supporting the impeachment of Clinton for the same thing; we have the example of Jonathan Edwards - a scumbag that some on the left actually supported - we have the nest of snakes at Goldman sachs; we have Rubin and Summers and and Greenspan - now also with a young trophy wife - who served to collapse the financial system once they had destroyed sixty years of regulatory protection.
What is the common thread here - that something is out of control. And we are not - as a public - outraged but resigned.