RE: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Strauss- Kahn and the hotel maid - six million dollar settlement?

The matter is not over. He is being accused of being part of a prostitution ring in France.


Professor Gloria Emeagwali
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Subject: Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Strauss- Kahn and the hotel maid - six million dollar settlement?

While I can understand Nafissatou's desire to take the money and put the ordeal behind her, I would have preferred to see Prevert, Pervert and Postvert Strauss-Kahn's butt get fried to send a message out there that Afrikan women must no longer be disrespected.

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>Dominique Strauss-Kahn, hotel maid to settle
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> * Last Updated: 2:40 PM, November 30, 2012
> * Posted: 4:50 AM, November 30, 2012
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>Diallo, who's from Guinea, said she told the truth about their encounter. But the district attorney's office dropped the charges in August 2011, saying prosecutors could no longer ask a jury to believe her.
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>Diallo had sued Strauss-Kahn in the meantime, with her lawyers saying she would get her day in a different court. Strauss-Kahn called the lawsuit defamatory and countersued her for $1 million.
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>Strauss-Kahn's whereabouts Friday were unclear. After his return to France in September 2011, Strauss-Kahn initially kept a very low profile. But in recent months, he has shown signs he is trying to rebuild his professional reputation, giving speeches at international conferences and reportedly setting up a consulting company in Paris.
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>Unconfirmed reports surfaced Wednesday that Diallo was in Paris this week on the invitation of a feminist group. A French lawyer who works with her US defense team, Thierry de Montbrial, told The Associated Press that the reports were untrue. He declined any comment on the settlement.
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>In helping resolve the case, McKeon averted what could have been an ugly court drama.
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>Strauss-Kahn initially said he had diplomatic immunity, an argument the judge turned down in May. Strauss-Kahn's lawyers had since asked McKeon to throw out part of her claim for other legal reasons. Court records show the judge had yet to rule on that and several other legal issues, and it appeared that a high-stakes step — depositions, or pretrial questioning under oath — had not yet been taken. Depositions can give both sides information and a better picture of how strong the key parties and other witnesses might be in court.
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>While the vast majority of civil cases end in settlements, some legal observers were surprised that the deal between Strauss-Kahn and Diallo came before the legal arguments were resolved.
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>"I really expected it to go a little farther," said Matthew Galluzzo, a criminal defense lawyer and civil litigator who has been following the Strauss-Kahn case closely.
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>Still, the case likely had taken a toll on both Diallo, a single mother of a teenage daughter, and Strauss-Kahn, who has found himself plagued by accusations of sexual misconduct that further sullied his reputation. The Socialist had been seen as a potential leading candidate for the French presidency before his New York arrest.
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>In France, judges are to decide by Dec. 19 whether to annul charges linking him to a suspected prostitution ring run out of a luxury hotel in Lille. He acknowledges attending "libertine" gatherings but denies knowing that some women present were paid.
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>In August, a separate case against Strauss-Kahn, centered on allegations of rape in a Washington, D.C., hotel, was dropped after French prosecutors said the accuser, an escort, changed her account to say she wasn't raped.
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>Soon after Strauss-Kahn's arrest in New York last year, French writer Tristane Banon accused him of attempting to rape her during an interview in 2003, a claim he called imaginary and slanderous. Prosecutors said they believed the encounter qualified as a sexual assault, but the legal timeframe to pursue her complaint had elapsed.
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>The Associated Press does not name people who report being sexually assaulted unless they come forward publicly, as Diallo and Banon have done.
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>Strauss-Kahn has separated from his wife, journalist and heiress Anne Sinclair, who stood by him through the allegations in New York. The two said they were filing a lawsuit this summer against a French magazine, citing invasion of privacy, for reporting they had split, but Sinclair later acknowledged it was true.
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>The New York Times first reported the agreement between Strauss-Kahn and Diallo.
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