Ex-IMF Head May Have Been Set Up

I detected a smell in the air when the former head of the International Monetary Fund, Dominique Strauss-Khan, was arrested for supposedly sexually assaulting a hotel chamber maid in New York.  The story just didn't seem to add up.   His victim's account was that DSK overpowered her and repeatedly, over some considerable time, had his way with her in his hotel room with no one the wiser.

Now, according to Reuters, the case against DSK is "close to collapse."   Apparently the woman has been caught repeatedly lying to investigators and prosecutors.

[A] source close to the case said that the district attorney's office took the case to a grand jury without fully checking out the woman's bona fides.

"Just about everything that was reported on this woman early on was untrue but no one checked or wanted to believe anything else," the source told Reuters.

Reuters notes that a recent poll found fully half of French respondents believed DSK had been set up, the victim of a plot.   Until he fell into this mess, Strauss-Khan had been seen as the Left's answer to Nicholas Sarkozy and a genuine threat to Sarkozy's prospects of re-election.