Joan illuzzi orbon biography

Raised voices reverberatedthrough the Manhattan district attorney's office. For two straight days in early June, prosecutors had been interviewing Nafissatou Diallo, the hotel chambermaid who claimed Dominique Strauss-Kahn had tried to rape her and forced her to perform oral sex.

But interviewing was no longer quite the word. Grilling would be a better fit.

Joan illuzzi orbon biography

The two lead prosecutors were women, and earlier they had been moved to tears by Diallo's story of the alleged assault by the powerful head of the International Monetary Fund and tales of her suffering in Africa. Now she'd admitted to so many lies about her past that her case might be unwinnable.

When Diallo's lawyer, who was out of town, got wind of the crisis in the D.A.'s office, he went on the offensive.

Kenneth Thompson, the son of a woman cop and himself a former prosecutor, began an extraordinary campaign to discredit District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. and his assistants. Among his strategies: making Diallo's identity publ