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March 26th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
But he now faces charges of “pimping as part of an organised gang”, which
carries a maximum 20-year prison term. The charges relate to a probe focused
on a prostitution ring that allegedly supplied clients of Lille’s luxury
Carlton hotel.
Last month, he was questioned for two and a half days over the affair and was
due to be summoned by judges on Wednesday, but they decided to bring forward
the hearing.
Using prostitutes is not illegal in France. But potential charges hang on
whether investigating magistrates are convinced Mr Strauss-Kahn was aware
the women he had sex with in restaurants, hotels and swingers’ clubs in
Paris and several European capitals were prostitutes paid for using company
funds.
One of these sessions was said to involve women being flown to Washington to
entertain him while he was still IMF managing director.
Eight people, including two Lille businessmen close to Mr Strauss-Kahn and a
local police commissioner, have been placed under investigation, and
construction firm Eiffage fired an executive suspected of using company
funds to hire escorts.
Mr Strauss-Kahn admits taking part in orgies arranged by “friends” as part of
his “uninhibited sex life”, but that “he never paid a centime” and never
asked if his partners were being paid.
“I have a horror of prostitutes and pimping,” he is quoted as saying.
His lawyer has argued his client was “totally unaware” that the women he met
in swinger sessions were prostitutes as “they were all naked at the time”
and because he was introduced to them by senior police officers.
This is a critical week for Mr Strauss-Kahn as on Wednesday his lawyers will
also be in court in New York for his first hearing in a civil case brought
against him by Nafissatou Diallo, the Manhattan Sofitel maid who alleges he
sexually assaulted her.
Criminal charges were dropped last August after prosecutors questioned the
reliability of her testimony.
In the civil case, Mr Strauss-Kahn’s lawyers will propose a motion urging the
judge to dismiss the case on the grounds that, at the time of the alleged
attack, their client enjoyed diplomatic immunity.
Judge Douglas McKeon is expected to decide whether the case can proceed within
a few weeks. If he accepts the motion, Mr Strauss-Kahn’s US legal troubles
will over. If not, Miss Diallo’s case for damages can proceed.
Mr Strauss-Kahn also faced criminal charges of attempting to rape 32-year-old
French writer Tristane Banon in 2003 but was cleared last October.
Prosecutors ruled that while there was prima facie evidence of a sexual
assault, the statute of limitations had passed.
The economist’s attempts to re-launch his tattered career have met with
protests. He was due to speak at a European Parliament debate on Tuesday,
but cancelled after MEPs said it would be “indecent” for him to appear.
His talk earlier this month at Cambridge Union Society sparked a demonstration
but went ahead in the university’s 197-year old debating club, where he gave
a private speech about global economics to hundreds of student members of
the society. He was bundled into a police car afterwards to escape
protestors.
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