Mike Nifong Call Your Office

Mike Nifong call your office.

It turns out now that members of the New York's DA staff saw through the chambermaid's story from the outset but were removed from the case. Attorneys more sympathetic to the accuser were brought on and immediately began trying to dig up dirt on Strauss-Kahn. The New York Post reports:

Two top sex-crimes specialists on the Dominique Strauss-Kahn case had serious doubts about his accuser's credibility almost from the moment she reported an attack -- but they were booted from the investigation because of office politics. Lisa Friel, then chief of the Manhattan DA's Sex Crimes Unit, and a senior investigator with the unit were tossed off the case after an internal battle over how to proceed, and less-experienced replacements ignored their concerns in a rush to present evidence to a grand jury, said multiple sources familiar with the rift.

To the district attorney's office credit there was a minimum of public statements regarding the nature of the case and certainly not a steady stream of inculpatory innuendos and half truths as surrounded the Duke lacrosse case. Nevertheless the DA chose to remove his best people and replace them with those who would do his bidding. Worse yet she appears to continue her lucrative hooker profession while under the DA's supervision and on the taxpayer's dime

."While she was under our supervision, there were multiple 'dates' and encounters at the hotel on the DA's dime," the source said of her paid hotel room. "That's a great deal for her. She doesn't have to cover her expenses."The woman has a regular fleet of gentlemen callers who range from wealthy clients she met at the Sofitel to counterfeit-merchandise hawkers and livery-cab drivers, said sources close to the defense investigation.
Some of her clients also gave her pricey jewelry, the source said.

And it gets better still! Her union may have had involvement in the prostitution ring.

The woman was allegedly purposely assigned to the Midtown hotel by her union because it knew she would bring in big bucks.

"When you're a chambermaid at Local 6, when you first get to the US, you start at the motels at JFK [Airport]. You don't start at the Sofitel," the source said. "There's a whole squad of people who saw her as an earner."

The woman also had "a lot of her expenses -- hair braiding, salon expenses -- paid for by men not related to her," the source said.