Epstein Secrets

I), having first been elected to the Chamber of Deputies in 1986, and was now in line to be its Presidential candidate. Even though French President Nicolas Sarkozy had backed his appointment at the IMF four years earlier, he was now emerging as his leading rival for the presidency, and now he was well ahead of

had backed his appointment at the IMF four years earlier, he was now emerging as his leading rival for the presidency, and now he was well ahead of Sarkozy in all the national polls. If elected, he would be France's first Jewish president. DSK had come to Washington DC from Paris just three days earlie

h in Paris where he would be seated in the box of President Sarkozy. Querry denies receiving any information about t

tal camera or cell phone. When Dominique Strauss-Kahn, better known by his initials DSK, had his now-in

on his way meet German Chancellor Angela Merkel with a secret plan to avert the Greek default. He was nearly 20 points ahead of his rival President Nicolas Sarkozy in the public opinion polls. He had planned to announce his candidacy on June 15th, he told me when I interviewed him last month. He was confident,

him last month. He was confident, perhaps overconfident, he could not be stopped, expecting to be nominated by his Socialist Party, and then defeat Sarkozy. These well-laid plans, as the whole world knows now, went astray moments after he stepped out of the bathroom naked and encountered a statuesque m

er By Edward Jay Epstein When Dominique Strauss-Kahn stepped out of the shower in his $3,000 a night s

that followed, the criminal case against him was not what it seemed last May when he was imprisoned in Rikers Island and his prospects of replacing Nicolas Sarkozy as President of France were crushed. Initially, the prosecutors assumed that this was a simple case of a hotel guest attacking, molesting and impri

ers Island and his prospects of replacing Nicolas Sarkozy as President of France were crushed. Initially,

as???? One year has past since Dominique Strauss-Kahn was arrested foe sexual assault in New York, but,

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rticipated in a sex party in Washington. He then flew to New York and =ot a room at the Sofitel, whose parent company employed an executive =lose to Sarkozy's intelligence coordinator, according to Epstein. =fter dinner, D.S.K. returned to the hotel with a woman who was seen =xiting the ground-floor ele

called the hotel to see if it had been retrieved. That call =ed to his arrest. What does one make of all this? In the immediate aftermath of =trauss-Kahn's arrest, French journalists flocked to the idea that he =ad somehow been set up by his enemies. But that thinking has largely =aded, especially aft

tive presidents of France—Jacques Chirac, Nicolas Sarkozy, and Francois Hollande. According to a former NS

wiped his computer clean in Hong Kong. It revealed that the NSA had targeted the telephones of three consecutive presidents of France—Jacques Chirac, Nicolas Sarkozy, and Francois Hollande. According to a former NSA official, this document, like the 2013 Merkel material, was not among the data on the thumb drive

Monetary Fund, in 2011. Immediately after his arrest, Cyrus Vance Jr, the dis- @ trict attorney of New York County, issued a subpoena for Strauss- @ Kahn’s cell phone records, credit card records, hotel room electronic key records, e-mails, room service bills, and the CCTV videos of his activities (som

ld his lover from the night before turned on him? Or maybe those rumors that he had been hearing in France had manifested themselves in some sort of Sarkozy-led conspiracy? Could something embarrassing have been found on his Blackberry or had it been used in a crime since he lost it." This interior dialo

met a police officer at JFK on May 14th. :Strauss-Kahn's mind was racing. Could his lover from the nigh

ro zone to absorb the entire Greek =overnment debt DSK knew that Germany was the key to solving the Greek problem: =nce Germany agreed to his plan, Sarkozy, who 0SK knew enjoyed dramatic =escues, would join Merkel. The other countries in the euro zone would =ollow suit. Over the past year, DSK had deve

s disaster have been averted if Dominique =trauss-Kahn had kept his appointment in Berlin instead of go