Oh, the DSK case is CRIMINAL. Is it appropriate or legally proper for Diallo to spill her guts to a magazine? Should the prosecutor be in charge of these kinds of disclosures? What in tarnation is going on here? What is the role of $$? Did Newsweek pay for this interview? Hoobada-Habada.
The Maid's Tale
She was paid to clean up after the rich and powerful. Then she walked into Dominique Strauss-Kahn's room—and a global scandal. Now she tells her story.
The story starts and ends with...
“Hello? Housekeeping.”
So after reading five internet pages, here's the abbreviated scoop...
- Diallo is tall (5'10") and firmly built. She is more physically imposing than DSK. Why didn't she slam him when he made his alleged moves? Answer: fear of job loss.
- She has a pocked face from acne scarring, not glamorous. Is this relevant?
- As a maid she was making $25/hr plus tips. As a maid... oh she is in the UNION. The Sofitel pays well.
- Occasionally as Diallo talked, she wept, and there were moments when the tears seemed forced.
- When Diallo reached the point of her alleged assault in the Sofitel, however, her account was vivid and compelling.
- The entire incident had taken no more than 15 minutes, and maybe much less.
- Many aspects of Diallo’s account of the alleged attack are mirrored in the hospital records, in which doctors observed five hours afterward that there was “redness” in the area of the vagina
- ...Diallo went back to the Special Victims Squad to look at a lineup of five men. “My heart was like this,“ she says, patting her chest. But she knew him immediately. “No. 3,”
- To this day, we do not have DSK’s account of what happened in suite 2806. Since his arrest, Strauss-Kahn has shielded himself with highly skilled lawyers and investigators who have kept his version of events off the public record.
- DNA evidence in suite 2806—the result of all that spitting that mingled the maid’s saliva and Strauss-Kahn’s sperm—makes it virtually impossible to deny there was a sexual encounter between DSK and Diallo.
- ...Diallo didn’t disguise her anger at Strauss-Kahn. “Because of him they call me a prostitute,” she said. “I want him to go to jail. I want him to know there are some places you cannot use your power, you cannot use your money.”
- (Amara Tarawally, convicted felon) used her bank account to move tens of thousands of dollars around the country without informing her, she said. She denied he ever gave her money to spend. “Like I say, he was my friend,” Diallo told us. “I used to trust him.”
- But the list of reasons for prosecutors to doubt Diallo’s credibility does not begin or end with Tarawally. In a letter to DSK’s defense lawyers on June 30, Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. cited several lies and deceptions in her past. She had claimed deductions for two children on her taxes instead of one. She had understated her income to get cheaper housing. And, most important, she had lied on her asylum application.
- Diallo says she gave the interview to NEWSWEEK to correct the misleading portrayal of her in the media.
- “I tell them about what this man do to me. It never changed. I know what this man do to me,” she says.
- Looking to the future, Diallo says she would love to go back to working in a hotel, but maybe in the laundry. She wants never again to have to knock on a door and call out:
“Hello? Housekeeping.”
The next hearing date is August 1.
- Will lead prosecutor Cyrus Vance drop the case?
- Will he try to bring it, but change the gravity of the charges.
- How much will Diallo's mouth shout at Newsweek hurt Vance's case?
- When will Diallo file a civil claim against DSK?
- Wouldn't a dropped criminal case severely disable a civil claim?
E cosi va
And now Diallo has done an ABC TV interview. Her legal wonder worms have decided to get some publicity for the $$$ case while the sun shines. Once the criminal case is dismissed, the party is over. Rather than have her final second or two of fame be one in which ND is described as less than an exemplar of propriety, she still has the capacity to play the heart strings. It's a plausible play in America, where litigation is a major industry.
Here's a video clip of her Good Morning America gig-a-doo with Robin Roberts (RR must be a six footer). http://youtu.be/lxc8rmcNr9A
'I said sir, stop this... he was like a crazy man'
From the Daily Mail, http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2018402/Nafissatou-Diallo-Dominique-Strauss-Kahn-hotel-maid-breaks-silence.html
The 32-year-old immigrant from Guinea waived her right to anonymity as her lawyers revealed they will be launching a civil lawsuit against Strauss-Kahn. It is likely to include a claim for damages that could run into millions of dollars.
A civil case would involve a lower standard of proof so is more likely to be a success. For example O J Simpson was acquitted over the death of his ex-wife Nicole but later lost a civil case brought by her family.
New York lawyer Dan Bright, who is representing Naomi Campbell’s former manager in a lawsuit against the model, said: ‘Strauss-Kahn is wealthy enough that he might settle rather than go through the embarrassment of a civil trial.
‘The amount of damages claimed could potentially be huge.’
Strauss-Kahn’s lawyers William Taylor and Ben Brafman said Miss Diallo’s interviews, for which she was not paid, were a ‘circus’.
‘The obvious purpose is to inflame public opinion against a defendant in a pending criminal case,’ they said.
'I want justice. I want him to go to jail. I want him to know that there is some places you cannot use your money, you cannot use your power when you do something like this'
'He come to me and grabbed my breasts... I was like stop, stop, stop this, but he keep pushing me, pushing me to the hallway, keep pushing me back to the hallway, I was so afraid, I was so scared'
'He come to me and grabbed my breasts... I was like stop, stop, stop this, but he keep pushing me, pushing me to the hallway, keep pushing me back to the hallway, I was so afraid, I was so scared'
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