An investigator from Guidepost Solutions be gone in Guinea ... The rumor in New York. Now that the first elements of the prosecution case, validated by the grand jury, are accessible to the defense of Dominique Strauss-Kahn, its lawyers may consider their strategy. It will depend largely on what the detectives have unearthed Guidepost during the investigation they conduct discharge.
They are paid to list all elements allowing either to exonerate DSK at trial or to allow his lawyers to negotiate in the best position to force a settlement with the prosecutor to reduce charges against their client . Hence the need to investigate in the country of origin of the young Guinean girl who says she was sexually assaulted by the former head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
Guidepost Solutions, which have turned lawyers DSK, is a society where safety and investigation, first surprise, the quest for information related to common crimes - which category the spring rape charge - no constitutes a very small part of the activities. The bulk of its revenues and related to the implementation of security systems for technology companies, protecting their assets and their leaders, the investigation of financial crimes in public accounting and computer the "business intelligence" and the "investigations into companies' and the collection of electronic information, as explained in her pack.
It was understood, it is cons-espionage and industrial espionage. Its president, Bart Schwartz, a former boss of the criminal division of the prosecutor's office in New York, specializing in financial crime and business. His deputy, Joseph Rosetti was the head of security for IBM worldwide.
Its managing director, Andrew O'Connell is a former federal prosecutor and "Special Agent of the United StatesSecret Service, the agency responsible for close protection of public figures, starting with the president. Other important leaders are a lawyer specializing in corruption cases and two experts (physical protection of facilities and telecommunications).
The corporate headquarters is in New York, it has branches in Washington and in five major U.S. cities. She declined our interview requests and the number of employees is not disclosed. Like its sisters, the best known is Kroll, it is awfully quiet. According to a lawyer who worked in a firm of the same type, the first two tracks that follow the investigators counsel DSK consist, first, to destroy the evidence or the personality of the complainant and the other to give into question the validity of the "physical evidence" of the charge.
"Faced with the jurors, he said, when you can not" fight "the facts - and in case of rape is often word against word - one tries to discredit the witness of the opposing party." Digging up the past in Guinea of the complainant - this young 32 year old woman nicknamed "Ophelia" at the Sofitel Hotel where she worked 19 years and came to the United States - is therefore one of the first tracks of the investigators.
Has she committed a theft? Defrauded, or signing a false statement, regardless of their motive? "Find a forgery, even trivial, even committed to 18 years, would be very interesting. That would tell the jury: whether she lied once, why does it not lie again?" However, in a trial, the defense has to instill doubt, jurors convict before unanimously.
Similarly, investigators do they get in the entourage of the complainant any exculpatory evidence in favor of Dominique Strauss-Kahn or which may throw discredit upon it since its arrival in the United States, thirteen years ago. They will also appoint experts of their choice of reporting partial or frontally contradicting those established by the forensic laboratory of the attorney - always with the aim of instilling doubt.
They require the manager of the Sofitel access to the suite where the rape allegedly took place. If she refuses, the attorneys DSK seize the judge to force the hotel to comply. Once in place, and knowing the medico-legal report of the charge, these experts will try anything that might be interpreted in opposite directions.
"Prosecutors and lawyers must comply with legal rules. They can get their hands dirty," Judge our interlocutor. He knows a case where a witness has received anonymous telephone message that he is cracking. But with the proliferation of plays, the method fell into disuse. If management of the Sofitel has ordered staff not to tell anyone, they can slip a note, then another, for more information.
Could they bribe a witness? "It would be very dangerous," he added. If the proc you clip, you lose your reputation and your customer is finished. " The objective of these investigations is to help lawyers to determine. If they detect new elements can tip the scales at trial and whether the complainant is perceived as crumbly, the propensity to plead not guilty will be strengthened.
If the reverse is true, lawyers may change strategy and try to negotiate a conviction on more minor charges. And how much is the collection of these elements of "decision support"? A firm with deep pockets is paying in fees: "700 dollars an hour" per investigator, says our interlocutor.
If she puts on the case three or four people for eight hours a day for a month, the sum turn out between 400,000 and half a million dollars, "excl" ... Sylvain Cypel Article published in the edition of 22.05.11 
They are paid to list all elements allowing either to exonerate DSK at trial or to allow his lawyers to negotiate in the best position to force a settlement with the prosecutor to reduce charges against their client . Hence the need to investigate in the country of origin of the young Guinean girl who says she was sexually assaulted by the former head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
Guidepost Solutions, which have turned lawyers DSK, is a society where safety and investigation, first surprise, the quest for information related to common crimes - which category the spring rape charge - no constitutes a very small part of the activities. The bulk of its revenues and related to the implementation of security systems for technology companies, protecting their assets and their leaders, the investigation of financial crimes in public accounting and computer the "business intelligence" and the "investigations into companies' and the collection of electronic information, as explained in her pack.
It was understood, it is cons-espionage and industrial espionage. Its president, Bart Schwartz, a former boss of the criminal division of the prosecutor's office in New York, specializing in financial crime and business. His deputy, Joseph Rosetti was the head of security for IBM worldwide.
Its managing director, Andrew O'Connell is a former federal prosecutor and "Special Agent of the United StatesSecret Service, the agency responsible for close protection of public figures, starting with the president. Other important leaders are a lawyer specializing in corruption cases and two experts (physical protection of facilities and telecommunications).
The corporate headquarters is in New York, it has branches in Washington and in five major U.S. cities. She declined our interview requests and the number of employees is not disclosed. Like its sisters, the best known is Kroll, it is awfully quiet. According to a lawyer who worked in a firm of the same type, the first two tracks that follow the investigators counsel DSK consist, first, to destroy the evidence or the personality of the complainant and the other to give into question the validity of the "physical evidence" of the charge.
"Faced with the jurors, he said, when you can not" fight "the facts - and in case of rape is often word against word - one tries to discredit the witness of the opposing party." Digging up the past in Guinea of the complainant - this young 32 year old woman nicknamed "Ophelia" at the Sofitel Hotel where she worked 19 years and came to the United States - is therefore one of the first tracks of the investigators.
Has she committed a theft? Defrauded, or signing a false statement, regardless of their motive? "Find a forgery, even trivial, even committed to 18 years, would be very interesting. That would tell the jury: whether she lied once, why does it not lie again?" However, in a trial, the defense has to instill doubt, jurors convict before unanimously.
Similarly, investigators do they get in the entourage of the complainant any exculpatory evidence in favor of Dominique Strauss-Kahn or which may throw discredit upon it since its arrival in the United States, thirteen years ago. They will also appoint experts of their choice of reporting partial or frontally contradicting those established by the forensic laboratory of the attorney - always with the aim of instilling doubt.
They require the manager of the Sofitel access to the suite where the rape allegedly took place. If she refuses, the attorneys DSK seize the judge to force the hotel to comply. Once in place, and knowing the medico-legal report of the charge, these experts will try anything that might be interpreted in opposite directions.
"Prosecutors and lawyers must comply with legal rules. They can get their hands dirty," Judge our interlocutor. He knows a case where a witness has received anonymous telephone message that he is cracking. But with the proliferation of plays, the method fell into disuse. If management of the Sofitel has ordered staff not to tell anyone, they can slip a note, then another, for more information.
Could they bribe a witness? "It would be very dangerous," he added. If the proc you clip, you lose your reputation and your customer is finished. " The objective of these investigations is to help lawyers to determine. If they detect new elements can tip the scales at trial and whether the complainant is perceived as crumbly, the propensity to plead not guilty will be strengthened.
If the reverse is true, lawyers may change strategy and try to negotiate a conviction on more minor charges. And how much is the collection of these elements of "decision support"? A firm with deep pockets is paying in fees: "700 dollars an hour" per investigator, says our interlocutor.
If she puts on the case three or four people for eight hours a day for a month, the sum turn out between 400,000 and half a million dollars, "excl" ... Sylvain Cypel Article published in the edition of 22.05.11
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