Head of IMF, DSK, pulled off plane, held by NYPD

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Re: Head of IMF, DSK, pulled off plane, held by NYPD

The case in France also dropped due to lack of evidence.

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Re: Head of IMF, DSK, pulled off plane, held by NYPD

Now we have aggravated pimping charges for Strauss-Kahn

This really is Stanley Kubrick’s Eyes Wide Shut.


"Strauss-Kahn’s name came up as police were investigating a criminal network that brought sex workers from brothels over the Belgian border being brought to France for orgies in high-class hotels in Lille and Paris.

Strauss-Kahn admits he took part in some of these parties, one of which was said to involve women being flown to Washington to entertain him while he was still managing director of the International Monetary Fund.
But he has denied knowing the escorts were paid.
Using prostitutes is not illegal in France, but prosecutors suspect Strauss-Kahn was aware the parties were paid for by other guests — friends from the business community — misusing their own companies’ funds.
Several businessmen and policemen have been accused of taking part in the ring. Strauss-Kahn told police he did not suspect the women were prostitutes because he was introduced to them by senior police officers.
Strauss-Kahn’s lawyers will also be in court on Wednesday in New York for the first hearing in a civil case brought against him by Nafissatou Diallo, a hotel maid who alleges he sexually assaulted her.
A Bronx judge will be asked to rule on a motion by Strauss-Kahn’s lawyers urging him to dismiss the case on the grounds that, at the time of the alleged attack in May last year, their client had diplomatic immunity.
These two cases are the most serious threats facing Strauss-Kahn after the dismissal of two earlier criminal investigations that were brought against him in the United States and in France after his spectacular fall from grace.
First, criminal charges relating to 32-year-old Diallo’s complaint that Strauss-Kahn attacked her in his suite in a New York Sofitel hotel on May 15 were dropped after prosecutors came to doubt the reliability of her testimony.
After that case, Strauss-Kahn, who had resigned from his post at the IMF in Washington, returned to France, only to face an accusation from 32-year-old author Tristane Banon that he had tried to rape her in 2002.
French investigating magistrates questioned Strauss-Kahn and his accuser and concluded that, while there was prima facie evidence of a sexual assault, the alleged attack had occurred too long ago to be prosecuted.
Strauss-Kahn admits having a “sexual encounter” with Diallo and told French police that he tried to kiss Banon, but strenuously denies he used violence."

http://news.nationalpost.com/2012/03...itical-pariah/