“It is a mess, a mess on both sides.” That’s the conclusion of one person involved in the investigations. The accuser has been found to have lied about multiple aspects of the case. Her past and present includes involvement with those knee deep in criminal activity. While evidence exists that sexual activity did take place, the true nature of that activity cannot be determined.
According to the two officials, the woman had a phone conversation with an incarcerated man within a day of her encounter with Mr. Strauss-Kahn in which she discussed the possible benefits of pursuing the charges against him. The conversation was recorded.
That man, the investigators learned, had been arrested on charges of possessing 400 pounds of marijuana. He is among a number of individuals who made multiple cash deposits, totaling around $100,000, into the woman’s bank account over the last two years. The deposits were made in Arizona, Georgia, New York and Pennsylvania.
The investigators also learned that she was paying hundreds of dollars every month in phone charges to five companies. The woman had insisted she had only one phone and said she knew nothing about the deposits except that they were made by a man she described as her fiancé and his friends.
In addition, one of the officials said, she told investigators that her application for asylum included mention of a previous rape, but there was no such account in the application. She also told them that she had been subjected to genital mutilation, but her account to the investigators differed from what was contained in the asylum application.
All which may yet vindicate those who expressed doubts about the charges, pointing to Strauss-Kahn’s “threat to the system” from the powerful. His work to avoid inflicting financial damage on the poor at the benefit of the wealthy did not make him many friends among those wealthy few.
