Edward Jay Epstein reports in the New York Review of Books the details of the arrest and investigation of Dominique Strauss-Kahn last May in New York. A number of intriguing details suggest the possibility that some persons, acting to benefit French President Sarkozy, used DSK's propensity to drop his pants as a means to set him up and remove Sarkozy's only real threat to re-election. Here is the link:
http://www.nybooks.com/...
The suspicious evidence includes DSK's missing Blackberry and the cleaning woman, Ms. Diallo, having gone into DSK's room after leaving another room and then immediately returning to that same room and lying about her reentry to the room. While the Sofitel refuses to say whose room that was and whether or not anyone was in it, corporate security for the Sofitel worldwide is headed by a man close to Sarkozy and security supervisors where with Diallo for an hour before the New York police were called.
There is more, much more in this piece. Read it and draw your own inferences.