THE DAILY TELEGRAPH: IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn, a man accustomed to luxury hotel suites and first-class plane travel, will make his home for now at New York City's notorious Rikers Island jail.Mr Strauss-Kahn will be transferred from a detention centre attached to the Manhattan Criminal Court to Rikers Island on Monday, a spokesman for the New York City Department of Correction said.
A judge earlier on Monday denied Strauss-Kahn bail on charges that he attempted to rape a hotel maid and set his next court date for Friday.
Defense lawyers said they were considering whether to appeal the bail ruling. Should the judge uphold his ruling, Mr Strauss-Kahn could be held at Rikers throughout any trial.
Mr Strauss-Kahn will probably be held in isolation with 24-hour watch, in large part for his own protection from inmates who might seek fame by attacking someone famous, according to people familiar with the jail operations who would not speak on the record.
A complex of 10 jails on a 415-acre (168-hectare) island near LaGuardia airport, Rikers is well-known to watchers of television and film crime dramas as the place where criminal suspects are sent pending trial or to serve short jail sentences. The island can be reached via bridge from the borough of Queens. » | Monday, May 16, 2011
My comment on this:
Whilst the man has got a dubious pedigree when it comes to women, and I am certainly not making any excuses for him – if he has done what is alleged he has done, it is utterly inexcusable – but one cannot help but have a nagging doubt that he might have been set up. After all, DSK had one hell of a lot to lose, and the chambermaid had a hell of a lot to gain.
It has been said she was a black single mother of one, and possibly two children. It has also been said that she recognised him. If she recognised him, she also knew how wealthy he was. She might have have just seen her exit from poverty before her very eyes. For now, one thing is for certain: whatever happens, she can make big bucks out of this sordid story. She'll be able to milk it for all it's worth. She'll gain notoriety/ celebrity, and pots of gold. He, meanwhile, will languish in the slammer. What a sad, sad end to an illustrious career. Whatever the man is or has done, it's a sad ending. But don't get me wrong, if he really has done what is alleged of him, he will deserve all he gets. But before I finish, how likely is it really that a mega-rich Frenchman, notorious as the French are for being a tad superior, to have thrown himself at a humble, lowly black chambermaid, when he had all the money in the world to have been able to buy himself the most expensive hussy in town, and all the secrecy and discretion that would have brought with it? We should all slow down before we rush to judgement. Let the facts unfold. Time will tell whether he has been set-up, or not. Time will tell whether he’s a dirty old man. – © Mark
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