On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 10:09 AM, ken hanly <northsunm at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> The first obscenity was the price of the hotel room, three thousand a
> night I
> understand. Meanwhile the IMF imposes austerity on all its clients. Perhaps
> Straus-Kahn thought sex was included in the price tag.
>
> Cheers, ken
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com>
> To: lbo-talk <lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org>
> Sent: Mon, May 16, 2011 8:34:24 AM
> Subject: [lbo-talk] the money shot
>
> Financial Times - May 16, 2011
>
> The walk of shame
>
> It was the most publicly shaming moment of what has been a spectacularly
> humiliating weekend for Dominique Strauss-Kahn: the walk from the back door
> of
> the Special Victims Unit in Harlem, New York, to the waiting unmarked
> police
> car, writes Ed Crooks In New York.
>
> The so-called “perp walk”, done to give the news photographers and TV crews
> a
> good look at the central figure in a case, is a well-established part of
> the US
> judicial system for celebrity defendants.
>
> The fact that the New York Police Department chose not to spare Mr
> Strauss-Kahn
> that public exposure suggests that it is determined to see the prosecution
> through to a conviction.
>
> Just before midnight on Sunday night one detective working at the station
> said
> the case had “blown up into a whole big thing”. But whatever the diplomatic
> sensitivities the case has thrown up, the NYPD is treating Mr Strauss-Kahn
> like
> any other high-profile defendant.
>
> It would have been perfectly possible to smuggle him out of the police
> station
> quietly.
>
> But the silver Ford Fusion that was to carry him was parked outside the
> police
> station car park on 124th Street. A police officer even adjusted the angle
> at
> which it was parked, to make it easier for photographers to secure the best
> possible view.
>
> Before Mr Strauss-Kahn appeared, the police gave several minutes warning,
> and
> then a final shout of “get ready!” just as he was about to emerge.
>
> When he came out, he was visible for only a few seconds, but it was enough.
> In a
> pale blue open-necked shirt and black raincoat, with a detective holding
> either
> arm, Mr Strauss-Kahn looked as rumpled as one might expect after a night in
> the
> cells, and was grim-faced as he has led to the car, but made no attempt to
> hide
> himself or respond to the 50 or so waiting reporters and photographers.
>
> After the car sped off towards second Avenue, the remaining policemen
> refused to
> discuss his destination.
>
> “We gave you what you wanted,” one said. “The money shot.”
>
>
>
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