New York judge rejects Strauss-Kahn's claim of diplomatic immunity A Bronx judge rejected disgraced IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn's claim of diplomatic immunity today - calling it a "Hail Mary" in court documents. The former International Monetary Fund chief tried to claim the protection in the civil case filed against him last August by chambermaid Nafissatou Diallo, who claims he sexually assaulting her in a "violent and sadistic attack" in the Midtown Sofitel hotel nearly one year ago. Strauss-Kahn was cleared of all criminal charges in the incident, but not before resigning from his post as chief of the IMF. "Confronted with well-stated law that his voluntary resignation from the IMF terminated any immunity which he enjoyed ... Mr. Strauss-Khan, threw [legally speaking that is] his own version of a Hail Mary pass," Judge Douglas McKeon wrote in his decision, handed down today. Click for more on this story from the New York Post