NEW YORK, May 1 (UPI) -- Claiming diplomatic immunity to protect himself from a lawsuit was Dominique Strauss-Kahn's unsuccessful "Hail Mary pass," a New York judge said Tuesday.
Justice Douglas McKeon of the state Supreme Court in the Bronx, a trial-level court, refused to dismiss a lawsuit brought by Nafissatou Diallo, The New York Times reported. Diallo, a housekeeper at the Sofitel in Manhattan, says Strauss-Kahn, then head of the International Monetary Fund, raped her last year.