Remember that DSK scandal?

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Well there's enough in this article to suggest the mechanics of a setup:

http://media.nybooks.com/strauss.html

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Re: Remember that DSK scandal?

French TV shows Strauss-Kahn hotel surveillance videos, hotel refutes conspiracy plot

http://www.taiwannews.com.tw/etn/new...php?id=1782692

French television showed for the first time Thursday surveillance videos of Dominique Strauss-Kahn checking out of a New York hotel where he was accused of committing sexual assault.

France’s BFM television aired the minutes-long clips, which were the basis of recent news reports suggesting Strauss-Kahn — the former head of the International Monetary Fund — might have been the target of a political plot but had not previously been publicly broadcast.


Strauss-Kahn was charged with attempted rape after a hotel maid, Nafissatou Diallo, alleged he attacked her and forced her to perform oral sex. New York prosecutors dropped the charges after they said they lost confidence in Diallo.


In Strauss-Kahn’s biography “DSK Affairs: The Second Inquiry”, written by Michel Taubmann, Strauss-Kahn defends himself that the sex was initiated by Diallo as she “looks openly at his genitals.”


In the clips, Strauss-Kahn exits an elevator, pays his bill and gets in a cab. BFM said those images were filmed about 20 minutes after the alleged May 14 assault. Strauss-Kahn, wearing a dark coat and wheeling a suitcase, does not appear hurried or nervous.


A separate segment BFM said was filmed about 40 minutes after the alleged attack shows Diallo slumped against a wall in a corridor reserved for hotel staff. The images are not clear enough to make out the expression on her face.

At one point, she appears to act out the attack, grabbing her own breast and pursuing a colleague, her arms outstretched.
Diallo’s lawyers insisted the images strengthen her case against Strauss-Kahn.


“This video shows actions of a victim, not someone who’s part of some plot to bring down a man that she had never seen before in her life,” attorney Kenneth Thompson told reporters at a news conference.


None of the clips show either Strauss-Kahn or Diallo emerging from the suite in the Sofitel hotel where the attack allegedly took place because there are no surveillance cameras on that floor, BFM explained.


The BFM clips broadcast do, however, include a brief sequence in which two Sofitel employees hug one another and do a joyful dance in a dark basement corridor.



“We are extremely troubled that the two hotel personnel were caught on film embracing and dancing immediately after a 911 call was made to the New York City Police,” Strauss-Kahn’s attorney, William Taylor, said in a statement Thursday.


Sofitel’s parent company, French hotel group Accor, said “The idea that these videos prove Accor’s involvement in a conspiracy is nonsense.”


“Despite malicious and unfounded allegations, it is not for Accor to take sides and/or comment on any aspect of this matter,” the statement added.


The reputation of Strauss-Kahn, who was then widely seen as the top contender in France’s upcoming presidential race, was badly damaged after the charge, and his political career had ended since.