Head of IMF arrested and accused of sexual assault

[Peter Lemkin]

I didn't know about the photographed naked!......now, I'm 100000% sure this was a set-up! All of the other points in the post above only reinforce this sad abuse of the police for political purposes.....nothing new.

[Jan Klimkowski]

The accused was handcuffed and escorted before television cameras a New York tradition known as a "perp walk." The suspect was photographed naked, which is also unusual, initially denied bail and held in solitary confinement. The Police Commissioner has boasted to the press that Strauss-Kahn is strip-searched now multiple times a day also unheard-of.
By the end of the second day's news cycle, senior public officials had weakened the presumption of innocence, a cornerstone of any civilized society's justice system. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner was calling for Strauss-Kahn's resignation from the IMF, and Bloomberg remarked, in response to objections to Straus-Kahn's perp walk, "don't do the crime." Whatever happened in that hotel room, Strauss-Kahn's career, and his presumption of innocence, was effectively over before any legal process had even begun.

Naomi Wolf's piece is fair and balanced.

As I've argued throughout this thread, none of us knows what happened in that hotel room.

However, Strauss-Kahn is no longer head of the IMF, and there is a clear deep political rationale for certain elite factions desperately wanting his removal at precisely the time it happened.

At the very least, those elite factions have seized the opportunity to perform a political hit on Strauss-Kahn.

At the worst, this is a manufactured political hit, pure and simple.

[Peter Lemkin]

The accused was handcuffed and escorted before television cameras a New York tradition known as a "perp walk." The suspect was photographed naked, which is also unusual, initially denied bail and held in solitary confinement. The Police Commissioner has boasted to the press that Strauss-Kahn is strip-searched now multiple times a day also unheard-of.
By the end of the second day's news cycle, senior public officials had weakened the presumption of innocence, a cornerstone of any civilized society's justice system. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner was calling for Strauss-Kahn's resignation from the IMF, and Bloomberg remarked, in response to objections to Straus-Kahn's perp walk, "don't do the crime." Whatever happened in that hotel room, Strauss-Kahn's career, and his presumption of innocence, was effectively over before any legal process had even begun.

Naomi Wolf's piece is fair and balanced.

As I've argued throughout this thread, none of us knows what happened in that hotel room.

However, Strauss-Kahn is no longer head of the IMF, and there is a clear deep political rationale for certain elite factions desperately wanting his removal at precisely the time it happened.

At the very least, those elite factions have seized the opportunity to perform a political hit on Strauss-Kahn.

At the worst, this is a manufactured political hit, pure and simple.

There is something[s] terribly wrong about this caper...and they all follow the 'pin the tail on the designated man to fall' model, IMO. Even IF there was some sex - hardly proven [if all but proven in the MSM], he had been tracked and spied on for months....knowing his every move, interest, weakness, etc.....this was an OP! I'd bet Eliot Spitzer on it! By the way, see the great movie "Client 9 - the Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer"!!! [the same film crew can start making a parallel one on Strauss-Kahn.]

[Peter Lemkin]

PR Firm Founded by CIA Agents Crafts Strauss-Kahn's Comeback Strategy
24th May 2011
By Courtney Comstock
Business Insider | May 23, 2011

Accused of rape: Dominique Strauss-Kahn, former IMF chief

Dominique Strauss-Kahn's defense strategy is being intensely speculated about now that he is out on bail. Of course through his lawyer, he is denying all charges of attempted rape, but now there are some more specifics detailing how he might back up those claims.

A Yahoo blog, the Envoy, heard from a source a French source involved in past French Socialist campaigns that DSK's new PR strategy might include methods such as:

* Attacking the credibility of the 32-year-old West African-born hotel maid

* Contending that any sexual activity was consensual

* Playing up Muslim and Jewish tensions (the maid is reportedly Muslim, and Strauss-Kahn is Jewish)

And the former IMF chief is now informally working with a Washington-based PR firm founded by former CIA officers, says Reuters.

The fact that he's consulting with former CIA agents might ignite speculation that DSK believes there is a plot against him (like he suggested to the French magazine Liberation a month ago). However Reuters says that DSK's dealings with the PR firm are informal.

The company, TD International, has done business with DSK in the past. It is the same PR company that DSK hired in 2007 when he made a push to become head of the IMF. It was founded by William Green, a former CIA agent.

DSK's representatives are said to have contacted the firm after his arrest last weekend, merely to ask for advice.

http://www.businessinsider.com/dominique...z1NJnURxob
TD International Partners
William Green
Founder & Managing Partner
William Green founded TD International, LLC (TDI) in 1999 with the conviction that a discreet, strategic advisory and risk management firm can better respond to the needs of international corporate clients, global investors and governments than large, inflexible information providers. He built TDI on the premise that clients need timely, accurate and relevant information to make optimal decisions.

Over the past decade, Mr. Green has managed the steady expansion of TDI's client base and built a core team of partners both in-house and strategic who share his philosophy and have extensive experience in the public and private sectors.

Mr. Green's advisory work ranges from crisis management and communications to the development of country and regional business strategies. His risk management expertise protects the reputations of clients through targeted due diligence, litigation support, and other compliance programs, particularly the US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) and the UK Anti-Bribery Act.

Mr. Green's clients include multinational energy and chemical companies, aeronautical and defense firms, financial institutions, pharmaceutical companies, medical institutions, insurance companies, technology firms, accounting firms, public relations firms, the food industry, non-governmental organizations, wealthy individuals, and law firms.

Prior to founding TDI, he served for two years as President of Parvus International, a business intelligence firm. Mr. Green managed the firm's restructuring and developed a marketing strategy that resulted in a doubling of the firm's revenues and its ultimate acquisition.

A former U.S. diplomat specializing in multilateral affairs within the United Nations, NATO and the European Union frameworks, Mr. Green served in Geneva and Paris and participated in the management of the Anglo-American and U.S.-Canadian intelligence relationships when posted to Washington.

Mr. Green received his M.A. in International Economics and European Affairs from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) in Washington, DC and Bologna, Italy, and his B.A. in History from Holy Cross College. Mr. Green is fluent in French.

Mr. Green serves on the board of Olton Solutions, a British based relational analysis software firm.
http://www.tdinternational.com/WilliamGreen.html

W. Ross Newland III
Partner

Mr. Newland's advisory practice introduces start-up technology firms to appropriate entities in the US Department of Defense (DoD) and the US intelligence community. His work extends into finding opportunities for small technology firms in the emerging markets of Latin America, Africa, the Middle East, and Asia. His risk management work focuses on investigative due diligence for corporate and international lending institution clients.

Mr. Newland previously served in the Central Intelligence Agency's (CIA) Senior Intelligence Service (SIS). Mr. Newland specialized in Latin America and completed six overseas tours, five of them in Latin America Bolivia, Venezuela, Costa Rica, Cuba, and Argentina.

http://www.tdinternational.com/wrossnewland.html

Fred Enochs
Partner

Mr. Enochs opened TDI's Houston office in 2008 with a focus on supporting the domestic and international energy, finance and commodity trading sectors. … Prior to joining TDI, Mr. Enochs served as a director for Enron Corporation. …

http://www.tdinternational.com/FredEnochs.html

Ron Slimp
Managing Partner

… Mr. Slimp began his career as a diplomat and trade negotiator, serving in the Foreign Service of the U.S. Department of State from 1989 to 1998. In this capacity, he conducted overseas diplomatic missions in Paris, Brussels, Geneva and Sarajevo. His dossiers included the World Trade Organization (WTO), G-7/8, European Monetary Union, European Union Integration and Security, Iran and the first Gulf War. Mr. Slimp received numerous awards for his service to the U.S. negotiating efforts in the WTO and for nation building in Bosnia-Herzegovina following the war.

After leaving government service, Mr. Slimp was an executive at Enron Corporation. …

http://www.tdinternational.com/RonSlimp.html
Tim Houghton
Partner

Mr. Houghton is a security expert who advises clients on strategic approaches to the development and application of investigative technology solutions. He has specialized knowledge of biometric applications and programs, electronic surveillance solutions, and crisis management.

Prior to joining TDI, Mr. Houghton was a senior member of Booz Allen Hamilton's security and law enforcement practice. He spearheaded international security and law enforcement business development initiatives in the United Kingdom, Europe, Australia, and the United Arab Emirates (UAE), focusing on interception technology, intelligence analytics, and infrastructure protection. Mr. Houghton managed numerous programs in support of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Internal Revenue Service's Criminal Investigation Division (IRS-CI). He also led a multi-disciplinary team that established the FBI's state-of-the-art Biometric Center of Excellence.

Mr. Houghton began his career as an officer in the United Kingdom's security and intelligence community. Over a ten year period he held a series of analytical, operational, and management posts covering counter-espionage, counter-intelligence, counter-terrorism operations and international security and intelligence liaison. Mr. Houghton served for three years at the British Embassy in Washington, D.C, coordinating U.K. operational intelligence requirements and analysis efforts with the FBI and the U.S. intelligence agencies.

http://www.tdinternational.com/TimHoughton.html
TD International Further Reading

"Ex-Spooks Investigative Firm Is Embezzled by Another, Suit Says"
"Halliburton to Pay $35 Million to Settle Nigeria Bribery Charges"

[Jan Klimkowski]

The fact that he's consulting with former CIA agents might ignite speculation that DSK believes there is a plot against him (like he suggested to the French magazine Liberation a month ago). However Reuters says that DSK's dealings with the PR firm are informal.

Reuters sez so, does it? Why has Reuters reported something clearly significant - long-term Strauss-Kahn contacts with a US intelligence proxy - then put up a sign saying "Nothing to see here"?

So much for Reuters just reporting the facts...

The company, TD International, has done business with DSK in the past. It is the same PR company that DSK hired in 2007 when he made a push to become head of the IMF. It was founded by William Green, a former CIA agent.

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Mr. Newland previously served in the Central Intelligence Agency's (CIA) Senior Intelligence Service (SIS). Mr. Newland specialized in Latin America and completed six overseas tours, five of them in Latin America Bolivia, Venezuela, Costa Rica, Cuba, and Argentina.

(snip)

Mr. Enochs opened TDI's Houston office in 2008 with a focus on supporting the domestic and international energy, finance and commodity trading sectors. … Prior to joining TDI, Mr. Enochs served as a director for Enron Corporation. …

(snip)

Mr. Houghton began his career as an officer in the United Kingdom's security and intelligence community. Over a ten year period he held a series of analytical, operational, and management posts covering counter-espionage, counter-intelligence, counter-terrorism operations and international security and intelligence liaison. Mr. Houghton served for three years at the British Embassy in Washington, D.C, coordinating U.K. operational intelligence requirements and analysis efforts with the FBI and the U.S. intelligence agencies.

So "superbrain" "socialist" Strauss-Kahn thinks this bunch of globe-trotting spooks, with connections to corrupt, Bush-friendly, international asset-stripper Enron (Jeb Bush allegedly ordered the President of Argentina to sell the country's national grid to Enron as part of IMF/World Bank restructuring "negotiations"), are the people he should be seeking advice from?

If Strauss-Kahn decides to blow the whistle on the IMF's role in Economic Shock Therapy, then I will respect him.

If Strauss-Kahn decides to hire one faction of the military-multinational-intelligence-complex to buy off the attack dogs of another faction, then he can rot in Rikers Island.

[Ed Jewett]

The Strauss-Kahn Set-Up and the Globalist Assault on Greek Sovereignty
Posted on May 30, 2011 by willyloman
by Scott Creighton
Now that Dominique Strauss-Kahn has been successfully removed from the equation, the globalist financial institutions are free to cash in on the Great Recession they created. They're attempting to hammer the people of Greece into submission with new "unprecedented" levels of privatization of public assets and even calls for "outside institutions" to take over some aspects of governing their country… like tax collection to start with. The buzz-word here is "sovereignty" and Greece is only the beginning.
"In order for the country to get future bailout money, the country will have to give up some sovereignty.
Specifically, according to a bombshell FT report, outside authorities will take over various functions related to tax collection (a big time problem in Athens) and privatizations." Business Insider
Imagine having to pay your income taxes directly to Goldman Sachs, Bank of America, Citigroup, JPMorgan Chase, or those drug dealers over at Wells Fargo. Not only do you have your money taken straight out of your paycheck and sent directly to their bloated coffers, but as legal representatives/replacements of the IRS, these banks would get to determine how much you actually have to pay them and in order to enforce their control, they would have all the current powers of the IRS (perhaps even more as the rush to deregulate business pushes forward) to force you to pay them whatever they say you owe.
For the globalists, this is a dramatic and tremendously profitable shift in the European neo-liberalization process, what one might call the ultimate privatization, where they hand over some roles of governance directly to unelected, unaccountable, privately owned multi-national financial institutions. For the bankers, this is a vast extension of their reach.
The ultimate goal of banking is not simply to amass huge private profits while siphoning off the collective wealth of the general population, though that is certainly part of it. But rather, the real ambition of private banking as it stands today is to ensure complete control of any given society by locking them into circular recurring debt cycles. This is the purpose behind the privately owned central banking system as well as the financing of the continuing endless "war on terror". The more they can get corrupted officials to spend, the more the nation state and all the people who live in it are slaves to the debt that it creates. On an individual scale, the school loan racket, the financial housing markets, even the insurance scam known as Obamacare, all of these things factor into locking individuals into huge personal debts which they must work to payoff over much of the course of their lives.
Now imagine that the debt created by the actual work performed to pay off the other debts, your personal income tax, will also be directly managed and overseen by these same institutions which lord over all of the rest of your debt slavery obligations and those of your nation and communities. Are you starting to see the bigger picture?
Massive protests are taking place in Greece right now. They are protesting these draconian demands of the European Central Bank and the IMF. The majority of the French people think Strauss-Kahn was set-up.
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin is publicly hinting that the arrest of Dominique Strauss-Kahn was a set-up to get him out of the way so that this fascist power grab in Greece and even the IMF itself, could take place. Remember, Strauss-Kahn was on his way to meet with German chancellor Angela Merkel to discuss the conditions of a new bailout for debt ravaged Greece and everybody now admits that they would have offered Greece a "soft restructuring" of their debt that would not have included anything like what is being discussed now.
Also remember that when Vladimir Putin rose to power in Russia, he tossed out Yletsin's neo-liberal Chicago Boys advisers and arrested several newly minted oligarchs when he took office, thus reversing much of the privatizations and neo-liberalization of Russia that took place under the rule of the drunken globalist sycophant, Boris Yeltsin.
For the most part, the rest of the world (at least those who are not currently being bombed by NATO for "humanitarian" purposes or shot and killed by pro-western dictators while they dare to protest horrible living conditions in their countries) understands that what happened to Strauss-Kahn was a set-up from the start.
It's only here in America, where the likes of professed "libertarian" Glenn Beck team up with "liberals" like Jon Stewart to try and convict Strauss-Kahn in the court of public opinion on both sides of the fake "left vs right" divide. One can at least understand Jon Stewart's role in all of this, since his brother is Chief Operating Officer, Americas Equities of the UBS Investment Bank, one of the very same globalist financial institutions that stands to profit immensely from the harsher Greek restructuring plan. Perhaps Jon will get a nice shiny new car for his next birthday or maybe a pleasant little vacation home somewhere in the Greek Isles.
When this story first broke, American Everyman immediately wrote about the connection between the obvious Strauss-Kahn set-up and the Greek restructuring plan. At that time the prime minister of Greece was strongly objection to plans to force Greece to hand over some of their islands as collateral on the new bailout. In that first article, on that first day, I wrote about the globalists looking to hijack part of the national sovereignty of a targeted nation, in this case Greece, and that for them would set a much needed precedent.
Since then we have seen the official story change, the prosecutors hide the victim from public scrutiny, and the judge in the case take the unusual position to hold Strauss-Kahn in complete isolation until he finally agreed to resign from his position at the head of the IMF.
Now we also see the New York Poststarting to float the endgame narrative which will eventually be used to explain why charges against Dominique Strauss-Kahn are dropped altogether. As the story goes, "friends" of Strauss-Kahn have offered the victim's family a seven digit payoff for not testifying against him. The New York Post article comes complete with stock photos of poor people in Africa in an effort to suggest that the victim is practically obliged to take the money and run so to speak… for the good of her dirt poor family. I mean, who could blame her, right? She's just looking out for her family.
That's the story anyway. The translation reads that this woman will be relocated somewhere with an amazing new found wealth, while Dominique Strauss-Kahn is released and the people of Greece are left to pay the price for all of this.

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[Ed Jewett]

30 MAY, 2011, 07.07PM IST,NEW YORK TIMES
At IMF, strict ethics code doesn't apply to top officials

NEW YORK: At the International Monetary Fund, there is one set of ethics guidelines for the rank-and-file staff and another for the 24 elite executive directors who oversee the powerful organization.

Over the past four years, the fund has tightened up internal systems for catching ethical misconduct among its 2,400 staff members, establishing a telephone hotline for complaints like harassment, publishing details of complaints in an annual report and empowering an ethics adviser to pursue allegations, which last year led to at least one dismissal.

But the fund's board members remain largely above these controls. The ethics adviser, for example, is not able to investigate any of them.

The board is responsible for policing its own directors as well as the managing director. It has a five-person ethics committee, whose work is confidential. And the only way the board can discipline its members is to write a warning letter to them or to their home countries, or the group of countries that appointed them.

"There are a lot of controls in place when it comes to the staff, but not for the leadership," said Katrina Campbell, a compliance and ethics expert at Global Compliance.

The IMF's ethics policy has come under intense scrutiny in recent weeks since the arrest of its managing director, Dominique Strauss-Kahn , on charges of sexually assaulting a hotel housekeeper in New York. Strauss-Kahn, who denies the charges, has resigned his position at the Fund.

In 2008, Campbell carried out a study of the IMF's ethics policies for the fund's Independent Evaluation Office. It found that the board lacked satisfactory procedures for disciplining its own members or the managing director for ethical lapses. The report criticized the board's code of conduct as vague, saying that it "reads, for the most part, as a set of recommendations, rather than rules" and that the board lacked effective enforcement procedures.

In contrast, it praised the staff code of conduct as detailed and offering "a plethora of policies and procedures."

Until several years ago, the managing director's position was ambiguous in terms of ethics policy. The person holding that post is both chairman of the executive board and also head of the staff, and it was not clear which code of conduct applied, according to Campbell.

But when Strauss-Kahn was selected for the top spot in November 2007, the staff code of conduct was written into his contract, she said, although ultimately he remains answerable only to the board.

In 2008, not long after Strauss-Kahn assumed the top post, the IMF was compelled to investigate him for having an affair with a staff subordinate. In that case, the fund hired an outside law firm to handle the inquiry because the ethics officer was not authorized to investigate at that high level. Although Strauss-Kahn was found not to have abused his position, he was publicly reprimanded by the board for showing poor judgment, and he apologized.

http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news...649895.cms

[Magda Hassan]

Looks like taxes and rules and regulations only apply to the little people.

I did want to know if the IMF have their own passports and immunity like the BIS crowd do. I seemed to remember seeing some sort of indication that he may have immunity to the current charges but because he was on personal business at the time it didn't apply in this instance.

[Jan Klimkowski]

I did want to know if the IMF have their own passports and immunity like the BIS crowd do. I seemed to remember seeing some sort of indication that he may have immunity to the current charges but because he was on personal business at the time it didn't apply in this instance.

It's all rather confusing.

It appears that IMF officials, and thus Strauss-Kahn, do have diplomatic immunity:

B. United Nations Convention on the Privileges and Immunities of the Specialized Agencies and Annex V1

Whereas the General Assembly of the United Nations adopted on 13 February 1946 a resolution contemplating the unification as far as possible of the privileges and immunities enjoyed by the United Nations and by the various specialized agencies; and

Whereas consultations concerning the implementation of the aforesaid resolution have taken place between the United Nations and the specialized agencies;

Consequently, by resolution 179(II) adopted on 21 November 1947, the General Assembly has approved the following Convention, which is submitted to the specialized agencies for acceptance and to every Member of the United Nations and to every other State member of one or more of the specialized agencies for accession.

ARTICLE I

Definition and Scope

SECTION 1

In this Convention:

(i) The words "standard clauses" refer to the provisions of Articles II to IX.

(ii) The words "specialized agencies" mean:

(a) The International Labour Organisation;

(b) The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations;

© The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization;

(d) The International Civil Aviation Organization;

(e) The International Monetary Fund;

(f) The International Bank for Reconstruction and Development;

(g) The World Health Organization;

ARTICLE III

Property, Funds and Assets

SECTION 4

The specialized agencies, their property and assets, wherever located and by whomsoever held, shall enjoy immunity from every form of legal process except in so far as in any particular case they have expressly waived their immunity. It is, however, understood that no waiver of immunity shall extend to any measure of execution.

SECTION 5

The premises of the specialized agencies shall be inviolable. The property and assets of the specialized agencies, wherever located and by whomsoever held, shall be immune from search, requisition, confiscation, expropriation and any other form of interference, whether by executive, administrative, judicial or legislative action.

http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/sd/i...ision=DN22

However, for some reason, either diplomatic immunity did not apply to Strass-Kahn's particular circumstances, or he waived immunity.

[Magda Hassan]

Strauss-Kahn Case Seen as in Jeopardy

By JIM DWYER, WILLIAM K. RASHBAUM and JOHN ELIGON

Published: June 30, 2011

This article is by Jim Dwyer, William K. Rashbaum and John Eligon.

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Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg News

Dominique Strauss-Kahn could be released on his own recognizance, and freed from house arrest.






The sexual assault case against Dominique Strauss-Kahn is on the verge of collapse as investigators have uncovered major holes in the credibility of the housekeeper who charged that he attacked her in his Manhattan hotel suite in May, according to two well-placed law enforcement officials.
Although forensic tests found unambiguous evidence of a sexual encounter between Mr. Strauss-Kahn, a French politician, and the woman, prosecutors do not believe much of what the accuser has told them about the circumstances or about herself.
Since her initial allegation on May 14, the accuser has repeatedly lied, one of the law enforcement officials said.
Senior prosecutors met with lawyers for Mr. Strauss-Kahn on Thursday and provided details about their findings, and the parties are discussing whether to dismiss the felony charges. Among the discoveries, one of the officials said, are issues involving the asylum application of the 32-year-old housekeeper, who is Guinean, and possible links to criminal activities, including drug dealing and money laundering.
Prosecutors and defense lawyers will return to State Supreme Court in Manhattan on Friday morning, when Justice Michael J. Obus is expected to consider easing the extraordinary bail conditions that he imposed on Mr. Strauss-Kahn in the days after he was charged.
Indeed, Mr. Strauss-Kahn could be released on his own recognizance, and freed from house arrest, reflecting the likelihood that the serious charges against him will not be sustained. The district attorney's office may try to require Mr. Strauss-Kahn to plead guilty to a misdemeanor, but his lawyers are likely to contest such a move.
The revelations are a stunning change of fortune for Mr. Strauss-Kahn, 62, who was considered a strong contender for the French presidency before being accused of sexually assaulting the woman who went to clean his luxury suite at the Sofitel New York.
Prosecutors from the office of the Manhattan district attorney, Cyrus R. Vance Jr., who initially were emphatic about the strength of the case and the account of the victim, plan to tell the judge on Friday that they "have problems with the case" based on what their investigators have discovered, and will disclose more of their findings to the defense. The woman still maintains that she was attacked, the officials said.
"It is a mess, a mess on both sides," one official said.
According to the two officials, the woman had a phone conversation with an incarcerated man within a day of her encounter with Mr. Strauss-Kahn in which she discussed the possible benefits of pursuing the charges against him. The conversation was recorded.
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. The deposits were made in Arizona, Georgia, New York and Pennsylvania.
The investigators also learned that she was paying hundreds of dollars every month in phone charges to five companies. The woman had insisted she had only one phone and said she knew nothing about the deposits except that they were made by a man she described as her fiancé and his friends.
In addition, one of the officials said, she told investigators that her application for asylum included mention of a previous rape, but there was no such account in the application. She also told them that she had been subjected to genital mutilation, but her account to the investigators differed from what was contained in the asylum application.
A lawyer for the woman, Kenneth Thompson, could not be immediately reached for comment on Thursday evening.
In recent weeks, Mr. Strauss-Kahn's lawyers, Benjamin Brafman and William W. Taylor III, have made it clear that they would make the credibility of the woman a focus of their case. In a May 25 letter, they said they had uncovered information that would "gravely undermine the credibility" of the accuser.
Still, it was the prosecutor's investigators who found the information about the woman.



http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/01/nyregi....html?_r=1