Prosecutors have lost all faith in the credibility of the maid in the DSK “rape” case and her ability to ever testify — and yet they’re stuck driving her around town and footing her bills.
Representatives from the Manhattan DA last week had a fractious meeting with the woman who has accused former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn of a violent May sexual assault in the Midtown Sofitel hotel. The prosecutors confronted her with lies on her asylum application and in grand-jury testimony — only some of the issues that have crippled their case, a source said.
Despite that, prosecutors still pick up some of her expenses — including almost continual protection and chauffeured transportation, plus hotel housing at a secret location, said a top investigative source.
“There is still an open sex-crime charge,” the source explained.
“There’s no travel without protection. There’s no unsupervised movements.”
Meanwhile, Strauss-Kahn’s lawyers are set to meet this morning with prosecutors.
A source said that a dismissal is viewed as a certainty in the DA’s office, given the maid’s insurmountable credibility problems.
“On cross-examination, she would be shredded beyond belief,” said that source, citing a view shared by the case’s top prosecutors and investigators. DA Cyrus Vance Jr., the source said, is leaning heavily toward dismissal, but wants to review the matter once more before cutting the case loose.