But, He’s A Banker …
No one gets charged when the IMF screws a country so the ABC reports Shock as IMF chief charged over sex assault
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) said on Sunday it remained “fully functioning and operational,” despite the arrest in New York of its managing director, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, on charges of sexual assault.
In its first statement since Strauss-Kahn’s arrest, the IMF said it had no comment and referred all inquiries to Strauss-Kahn’s lawyer and local authorities.
The IMF chief was arrested on Sunday and charged with a criminal sexual act, attempted rape and unlawful imprisonment of a New York hotel maid, in a scandal that appeared to wreck his hopes of running for president of France.
The 62-year-old, a key player in the response to the 2007-09 global financial meltdown and in Europe’s debt crisis, was taken by police off an Air France plane about to leave for Paris from John F Kennedy International Airport.
It would appear that Mr. Strauss-Kahn, if guilty, was attempting international flight to avoid prosecution. NYPD must have physical evidence to have pursued the case this quickly, because they knew who the suspect was, and don’t always act immediately without a good basis when a suspect has pull.
Of course, it is possible that someone in the chain of command is fighting or suffered foreclosure and has a “problem” with financiers as a result.
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Maybe NYPD were just fed up because they can’t go after their local big crim’s, so they leaped at the opportunity to go for an International one. 😆
We’ll probably never know. But good on ’em anyway! One less bastard around (at least, if the French Police do their job as they use to).
The NYPD must have real, hard physical evidence, not just the testimony of the victim, to push the paperwork for an arrest through the system this quickly.
Sex crimes are a separate operation in NYPD, so they have a solid record on prosecutions. The hotel wouldn’t have been anxious to cooperate, given the room rate, so the investigators would have leaned heavily and quickly.
I know they damn sure didn’t want to go through the extradition process with France after the Roman Polanski mess, and Polanski pled guilty.
Some people don’t think laws apply to them, because in many places they don’t.