[lbo-talk] Case against Strauss-Kahn near collapse: report | Reuters

SA s11131978 at gmail.com
Fri Jul 1 04:42:18 PDT 2011


On 7/1/2011 3:09 AM, Wendy Lyon wrote:


> The AP has this:
> "But according to the law enforcement official, prosecutors now
> believe Strauss-Kahn's accuser lied about various details on her
> application for asylum in the U.S., including saying she had been
> raped in her native Guinea — a claim she repeated and then recanted
> during the investigation, the official said.
>
> "She actually recounted the entire story to prosecutors and later said
> it was false," the official said.
>
> Prosecutors also believe some of her account of her activities in the
> hours surrounding the alleged attack wasn't true, though they haven't
> necessarily reached a new conclusion about the incident itself, the
> official said."

Different outlets are reporting different things. The NY Post, odious as it is, has good law enforcement sources and hasn't exactly gone easy on DSK up to now. It sez:


> Prosecutors are working with three possible scenarios that could each
> destroy their case against the rape case against Strauss-Kahn
>
> -- They had consensual sex
>
> -- Strauss-Kahn paid her for sex
>
> -- The maid set him up in an extortion plot
>

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/sources_assault_case_against_apart_9p7wWKT0k7qa8X2Qwt8lZI

SA



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