"Trial begins for ex-IMF leader" by Dan Bilefsky. New York Times February 03, 2015
PARIS — Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the former head of the International Monetary Fund, went on trial Monday on accusations he participated in a prostitution ring that extended from the north of France to Brussels, Washington, and New York.
Did he take any plane rides?
In a case that has riveted France, Strauss-Kahn, 65, who was once seen as a presidential contender, stands accused in Lille, France, with 13 other defendants, including Dominique Alderweireld, a sex club owner known as Dodo la Saumure.
Strauss-Kahn is charged with “aggravated procurement in a group,” or pimping, and using his subordinates to obtain prostitutes for lavish sex parties.
He was one for banks while working at the IMF.
In addition to shining a spotlight on a clandestine world of champagne-fueled sex parties that prosecutors say were attended by lawyers, judges, police officials, journalists, and musicians, the case is also spurring debate about sexual morality in France and the extent to which the private lives of public figures should remain private.
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His defenders say the prosecution is seeking to criminalize sexual ardor and Strauss-Kahn is the victim of a puritanical, politically motivated witch hunt.
Pfft!
Maybe he was framed and is being singled out; however, so what? When they are all sick scum does it really matter which shit is on top?
Moreover, they argue that sex parties reflect a long tradition of libertinage and that consensual sex between multiple partners behind closed doors is a matter of private taste and morals.
Strauss-Kahn resigned as head of the IMF in 2011 after he was accused of sexually assaulting a housekeeper at a hotel in New York. The charges were later dropped.
I could find links, but why bother?
He has since been seeking to reestablish himself, working as a consultant, lecturing, and advising foreign countries as well as large companies in Russia, Africa, and Latin America, among other places.
Oh, that's why he is being charged.
Prosecutors say that exclusive orgies were organized in major world cities by businessmen who were seeking favor with Strauss-Kahn and that their money was used to finance prostitutes, including for Strauss-Kahn, who sometimes sought out sex with several partners in one evening....
Sick $hits.
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I'm told "the evidence against him is thin" -- like his dick.
"Strauss-Kahn trial: I didn’t know women were prostitutes" by Dan Bilefsky, New York Times February 11, 2015
LILLE, France — There was testimony about lavish sex parties with high-flying power brokers and prostitutes. There were questions about whether certain sex acts were entirely consensual and about the finer points of libertinage. For good measure, topless protesters threw themselves at the car carrying the chief defendant, a man once expected to be president of France, Dominique Strauss-Kahn.
But the burlesquelike atmosphere at his trial, and that of 13 others accused of pimping and abetting prostitution, in the northern city of Lille on Tuesday, was perhaps topped only by the silver-haired Strauss-Kahn’s defense: Lust is no crime.
No, no, it isn't. Now back to the scum pool, shitter.
“When you read the criminal complaint, you get the impression it was this unbridled activity,” Strauss-Kahn told the court, “but it was four times a year.” The rest of the time he was too busy trying to save the global economy as head of the International Monetary Fund, he said.
These guys are so phoqueing arrogant it is beyond belief.
In any case, his lawyers argued publicly before the trial, everyone looks the same with their clothes off, and who can really tell the difference between a prostitute and a naked socialite at an orgy?
No wonder this world is in such terrible shape.
If Strauss-Kahn, 65, who has sought to remake his image in pursuit of public redemption, had hoped that the spectacle surrounding his legal troubles and lifestyle would have receded since the allegations against him first broke in 2011, it was not to be.
The trial, which began last week and is expected to last three weeks, has titillated France, exposing trans-Atlantic orgies from Lille to Paris to Washington attended by judges, lawyers, journalists, and police officials.
Really? Where are the NAMES?
In a country where the privacy of public figures has long been considered sacrosanct, some have cringed along with Strauss-Kahn as details of his sexual predilections — described as “animal” during testimony Tuesday by a prostitute identified only as Mounia — have been dissected in front of the global news media.
Yeah, ONLY THEIR PRIVACY is IMPORTANT! Governments are SPYING ON CITIZENS and COLLECTING ALL THEIR DATA!
Strauss-Kahn acknowledged being present at sex parties. But he said he played no part in organizing them, and he insisted that he was not aware that some of the women at the parties were prostitutes.
Strauss-Kahn characterized the sex parties as libertinage, or freewheeling sex and pleasure among multiple and consensual partners.
He said that the festive nature of libertinage would have been sullied had he known that the women were being paid for sex. Buttressing his case, Fabrice Paszkowski, a businessman accused of being one of the main organizers of the orgies, told the court Tuesday that he had never told Strauss-Kahn that the women had been paid.
If convicted, Strauss-Kahn could face up to 10 years in prison and fines of more than $1.7 million.
I would oil up the guillotine.
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Related:
"A court on Tuesday ordered a private clinic in the Riviera city of Cannes to pay out $450,000 each to two 20-year-old girls accidentally switched at birth and given to the wrong parents — part of a $2 million payment to members of the two families."
French changelings?
