Dominique Strauss-Kahn bail in doubt

[TacticalPeek]

Source: The Telegraph


Dominique Strauss-Kahn bail in doubt

Dominique Strauss-Kahn's $1 million bail was in doubt on Friday night, after managers of a luxury Manhattan apartment building appeared to back out of a deal for him to live there under house arrest.


Mr Strauss-Kahn won release from Rikers Island prison after a judge was told his wife, Anne Sinclair, had rented a property where he could be placed under 24-hour armed guard and video surveillance.

It is thought to have been at the Bristol Plaza, where condominiums are listed for up to $23.5 million (£14.4 million). Boasting it is "better than a hotel", its owners offer guests perks including a "daily maid service".

Yet the building's management appeared to disown the arrangement on Friday after discovering why their new 62-year-old tenants were planning an extended stay away from France.

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An employee at the building told The Daily Telegraph: "We have no one with those names here". A spokesman at Milstein Properties, the owners, would not say if the firm had cancelled a deal.



Read more: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/dominique-strauss-kahn/8526975/Dominique-Strauss-Kahn-bail-in-doubt.html

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Poor thing.

[no_hypocrisy]

1. The building's insurance carrier probably forbid him from residing on premises.

[hlthe2b]

2. Was to include "daily maid service"???? Are they nuts?

Let him rent a "lower middle class" dwelling sans the frills. He's got security, after all. And, I'm sure the landlords of THESE dwellings would overlook the inconvenience for the $$.

(or let him stay where he is....:eyes: )

[joshcryer]

15. The rich always have it easy.

DSK is probably pissed he couldn't get to the victim sooner to wave money in front of her for her silence.

[leftynyc]

3. Seems the folks on the Upper

East Side don't want to deal with all the security and media. Can't say I blame them.

[joshcryer]

13. Yeah, I can't blame them either for being privleged.

Most other people would have to deal with the free press as crappy as our corporate press is.

[leftynyc]

17. I don't wish people trouble

in their lives because they're rich. Have you ever had to deal with media trucks outside your home 24/7? Ever had to show ID just to be able to get into your apartment? This guy is a serious flight risk and the security and media attention are going to be ridiculous. And it's not just the American press - he's a foreign national who had a job that effected everyone. I can't blame the neighbors for not wanting to deal with that until the end of a trial.

[DJ13]

4. Maybe the Motel 6 is available?

:rofl:

[alcibiades_mystery]

5. Rikers Island is not a prison

Lazy journalism.

[frazzled]

8. Well, it's a jail, with inmates and guards.

Rikers Island is New York City's main jail complex.

The facilities located on Rikers Island include Otis Bantum Correctional Center (OBCC), Robert N. Davoren Complex (RNDC, formerly ARDC), Anna M. Kross Center (AMKC), George Motchan Detention Center (GMDC), North Infirmary Command (NIC), Rose M. Singer Center (RMSC), Eric M. Taylor Center (EMTC, formerly CIFM), James A. Thomas Center (JATC), George R. Vierno Center (GRVC) and West Facility (WF). Bantum, Kross, Motchan, and Vierno house detained male adults. Taylor houses sentenced male adolescents and adults. Davoren primarily houses male inmates who are of ages 16 through 18. Singer houses detained and sentenced female adolescents and adults. North Infirmary primarily houses inmates who require medical attention from an infirmary. West Facility houses inmates who have diseases that are contagious.<6>
The average daily inmate population on the island is about 14,000.<7> The daytime population (including staff) can be 20,000 or more.<8>
The complex, which consists of ten jails, holds local offenders who are awaiting trial and cannot afford or cannot obtain bail or were not given bail from a judge, those serving sentences of one year or less, and those temporarily placed there pending transfer to another facility.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rikers_Island

[alcibiades_mystery]

11. Thanks

I don't need Wikipedia to tell me what Rikers Island is. Been there many times.

[frazzled]

12. You're welcome

I'll politely avoid asking why you've been to Riker's many times.

[alcibiades_mystery]

16. Mostly pro bono work

at the Rose M. Singer Center. As it turns out, when you incarcerate women, a lot of them are mothers, and they often need legal help getting their children placed with family while they're in jail. There's also a very short window during which you can get the kids out of the system, which is to say, before the mothers lose their standing.

Since you weren't asking.

[frazzled]

18. Excellent work

I suspected something on that order, but who knows: you could have been incarcerated several times and I didn't want to ponder that possibility.

[yellowcanine]

6. Bristol Plaza agrees to rent to DSK if he signs a contract for maid service

[jwirr]

7. Well now that is interesting. My grandson is in jail - and he deserves

what he is getting - but he is the primary care giver for his two children. We are going to go ask if they will give him home arrest with work release so he can take care of the kids. Wonder if a poor man can get the kind of treatment this rich man is getting?

[joshcryer]

14. Highly doubtful.

Sorry to hear about your grandson, our society is very adept at creating criminals (either through bullshit laws or through conditions that create criminal behavior).

[cliss]

9. "MAID service"????

Now I know why he can't stay there.

:smoke:

[Freddie Stubbs]

10. Can't he just get a cot at the Y?

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