I.M.F. Head Is Arrested and Accused of Sexual Attack

(wow, this is amazing . . . not that these banksters are rotten scum to the core, but that they are not yet considered "untouchable" . . . I will again be shocked if this isn't eventually turned around to make the victim the guilty party . . . or, maybe the real power is done with Mr Strauss-Kahn . . . they have wiped their behinds with him and flushed him down the commode . . .)

Dominique Strauss-Kahn
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Al Baker and Steven Erlanger
New York Times

The managing director of the International Monetary Fund, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, was taken off an Air France plane at Kennedy International Airport minutes before it was to take off for Paris on Saturday and arrested in the sexual attack of a maid at a Midtown Manhattan hotel, the authorities said.

Mr. Strauss-Kahn, 62, who was widely expected to become the Socialist candidate for the French presidency, was apprehended by detectives of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey in the first class section of the jetliner, and immediately turned over to detectives from the Midtown South Precinct, which covers the part of Manhattan where the hotel is, officials said.

The New York Police Department took Mr. Strauss-Kahn into custody, where he was “being questioned in connection with the sexual assault of a hotel chambermaid earlier this afternoon,” Deputy Commissioner Paul J. Browne, the department’s chief spokesman, said Saturday evening.

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