I sure would feel better if I had even suspected some sort of fraud. We jumped on this case just like the ethnic studies department at Duke jumped on the Duke lacrosse team.
I am ashamed of myself.
Gossip about other allegedly similar events involving DSK, but in the Old World, has been buzzing in France.
I’m not sure how the maid expects a criminal prosecution of DSK to earn her squat. That can’t get her a settlement — the American system does not work that way, which would be the suborning of a witness. She could file a lawsuit against DSK in a separate action, but that has yet to happen.
So this girl got herself hired as a maid at a swanky French hotel, hoping to seduce some rich guest and then turn on him and claim rape. Maybe.
Maybe she and DSK deserve one another, after all.
“I am ashamed of myself.”
Don’t be; I never said much about this because I didn’t care either way about it (NYC is a foreign country to me, and it’s 6 miles away), but news stories at the time painted a very different picture: they made it clear there was contact, and gave the impression he was fleeing. They also never questioned the integrity of the accuser in any way.
there is justice, apparently.