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New book on Strauss-Kahn claims French authorities conspired to set him up | | A new book on former International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn by American journalist Edward Jay Epstein has again revealed that he was the target of a conspiracy to weaken his chances of defeating Nicolas Sarkozy to become French president. Epstein writes in his book
that Strauss-Kahn was 'in the crosshairs' of observation by French authorities
and had no idea his activities could be morphed into a high profile arrest for
pimping. A year ago on Monday, Strauss-Kahn was arrested for sexual assault of
a Sofitel Hotel maid in Manhattan . The charges were dropped when prosecutors
decided her reliability was a problem but his political career was killed. "There
may be innocent explanations of what went on in the Sofitel ... but ... the possibility
of a conspiracy cannot be ruled out," Stuff.co.nz quoted Epstein, as saying. Epstein
suspected French authorities bugged Strauss-Kahn's phone. He claimed Strauss-Kahn's
BlackBerry phone bafflingly went missing and had its global positioning system
turned off after Strauss-Kahn left the hotel. In an ebook Three Days in May, Epstein
had claimed Strauss-Kahn took part in a sex party in Washington , and then flew
to New York . Strauss-Kahn then booked into the hotel whose parent company employed
an executive close to Sarkozy's intelligence co-coordinator, according to Epstein.
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