Former IMF Chief Strauss-Kahn Released On Bail, Will Get Home Detention

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by Alex Alvarez | 4:15 pm, May 19th, 2011

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Former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn has been released on bail. Bail was set as a $1 million bond, with an additional insurance bond of $5 million.

Charged with sexually assaulting a maid at a Manhattan hotel, Strauss-Kahn had been previously told by a judge that he would be held without bail, at least until his next court hearing. He has resigned from his post as the IMF’s managing director, although he had not been forced to do so by the court.

The terms of his release dictate that Strauss-Kahn will receive home detention, wearing an electronic monitoring device and accompanied by at least one guard at all times.

Strauss-Kahn’s defense argued that their client was an “honorable” man, noting that Bernie Madoff and many other alleged criminals were granted bail in the past. Strauss-Kahn agreed to surrender his passport, promising that he wouldn’t flee the country. He had been denied bail on Monday on the grounds that he posed a flight risk.

Watch the report from Fox News:

h/t MyFoxNY

Bail, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, IMF, Rape

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What’s the anti-Obama conservative spin on this one?
Fokker News

I see staunch conservative Ben Stein is standing shoulder to shoulder with this banker because he couldn’t possibly do it because he is an old white dude with good breeding and big banking money.
turk281

Fokker News said:
I see staunch conservative Ben Stein is standing shoulder to shoulder with this banker because he couldn’t possibly do it because he is an old white dude with good breeding and big banking money.

I see as expected of someone who would use a Fok news icon, you leave out that Stein along with leftist French intellectual Bernard-Henri Levy and the majority of the French Socialist party are sticking up for this dirtbag.

But I can understand you wanting to point out ONE conservative supporter in a field of thousands of lefty supporters.

Good job, sir.
Harry Flashman

And now, for the second part of his act he’ll switch from accused attempted rapist to a magician and disappear right before our very eyes.

Of course, I could be wrong and like a man of honor he’ll stay and face the charges instead of bolting to France, which has no extradition agreement with the U.S.

Heh. Just kidding. He’ll rabbit.
Barack Must Go

There goes that pesky Barack Obama’s amerika rule again. This time blurring that line between right and the ability to pay out $6 million dollars.

I wonder if the victim’s feelings and safety were ever part of the equation or thought process that led up to today’s wrong decision.
TeaPartyPatriot

Lunatic-left socialist men certainly don’t want to look at – mush less touch – the uggo women of the lunatic-left anymore than normal, sane men do. Nothing crushes a man’s libido faster than a glimpse of uggos like michelle “marie antoinette” obozo, rosie odonnell, sonia sotomayor, janet napolitano, joy behar, corrine brown, claire mccaskill, maxine waters, elena kagan, oprah, rachel maddow, regina benjamin, etc. So the socialists have no choice but to pay for it from women that don’t make them hurl their lunch.
LOGICandREASON

Lets just say the case is over(only the never ending cock and bull stories remain).

The judge must have got a call from “someone” affiliated to Socialists(does this remind you of anyone?) Socialist would hardly abandon one of their fellow elite unless he did something against them.
LOGICandREASON

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominique_Strauss-Kahn
He is the son of Gilbert Strauss-Kahn, a legal and tax advisor and member of the Grand Orient de France
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Orient_de_France
Girth Brick

DSK is a possible GOP 2012 contender now.
kit9

I think they’re crazy. This is a very wealthy man and there is no extradition treaty. He could make a run at the airport, get on a private plane and be gone before the cops could get him. In fact, I bet money he does just that. He’s looking at a prison sentence vs. living happily in France and he has the money make it happen.
Barack Must Go

Girth Brick said:
DSK is a possible GOP 2012 contender now.

Nah. He’s a lib, from France. He would actually make the perfect running mate for Hillary Clinton when she throws her whatever in the race later in the season.

Afterall she was quite convincing standing by her pervert of a man the last go round.

They’re a natural ………. disaster ….. together.
LOGICandREASON

The cock and bull stories have already began, I’m surprised the reporter from Fox did not report the case properly.

Dominique Strauss-Kahn DID NOT BUY HIS TICKET IN ADVANCE!

HE HAS A SPECIAL VIP DEAL WITH HIS COUNTRY’S AIRLINE: AIR FRANCE, WHICH GIVES HIM THE PRIVILEGE TO A SEAT ON FIRST CLASS WITH “ANY AVAILABLE AIR FRANCE FLIGHT” WITH OR WITHOUT PRIOR NOTICE TO THE AIRLINE.
avoidswork

turk281 said:
I see as expected of someone who would use a Fok news icon, you leave out that Stein along with leftist French intellectual Bernard-Henri Levy and the majority of the French Socialist party are sticking up for this dirtbag. But I can understand you wanting to point out ONE conservative supporter in a field of thousands of lefty supporters. Good job, sir.

but not American lefties, French lefties. Stein is not a French conservative, but an American one.

what i will agree with you on, however, is that DSK is a dirtbag.
CAconservative

Innocent until proved guilty? Of course, money can buy you so much more innocence.
felixw

Dominique Strauss-Kahn should have broken a different law, and hired high price NY hookers. Then, instead of going to jail, he would get rewarded with his own show on CNN.