{"id":10215,"date":"2011-09-29T15:04:01","date_gmt":"2011-09-29T19:04:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=10215"},"modified":"2011-09-29T12:42:56","modified_gmt":"2011-09-29T16:42:56","slug":"strauss-kahn-asks-ny-court-to-dismiss-maids-suit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=10215","title":{"rendered":"Strauss-Kahn Asks NY Court To Dismiss Maid&#8217;s Suit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>NEW YORK<\/strong> &#8212; <strong>Dominique Strauss-Kahn<\/strong> claimed Monday he has diplomatic immunity and asked a New York court to dismiss a lawsuit filed by the hotel maid who says he sexually assaulted her.<\/p>\n<p>Attorneys for the former International Monetary Fund leader filed the motion in a Bronx court, arguing judges there do not have the ability to try the case because <strong>Strauss-Kahn&#8217;s<\/strong> time as head of the fund gives him immunity from the litigation.<\/p>\n<p>The 62-year-old <strong>Strauss-Kahn<\/strong> was initially charged with attempted rape and held under pricey house arrest after the maid, <strong>Nafissatou Diallo<\/strong>, said he attacked her in his hotel suite May 14 and forced her to perform oral sex.<\/p>\n<p>The case was eventually dismissed when prosecutors said they had lost faith in <strong>Diallo&#8217;s<\/strong> credibility after a series of lies she told them unrelated to the assault allegations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK &#8212; Dominique Strauss-Kahn claimed Monday he has diplomatic immunity and asked a New York court to dismiss a lawsuit filed by the hotel maid who says he sexually assaulted her. Attorneys for the former International Monetary Fund leader filed the motion in a Bronx court, arguing judges there do not have the ability [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10215\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}