He Wasn't Just Buying

He was selling.

Disgraced former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn was charged Monday with involvement in an organised vice ring that procured prostitutes for top-class clients, lawyers said.

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“He firmly declares that he is not guilty of these acts and never had the least inkling that the women he met could have been prostitutes,” said Richard Malka, one of Strauss-Kahn’s counsel.

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Oh, yes, an innocent.

Strauss-Kahn told police he did not suspect the women were prostitutes because he was introduced to them by senior police officers.

Yeah, like senior police officers are never involved in vice. Sorry, Pignut. Nobody believes that.

Strauss-Kahn’s name came up as police were investigating a pimping operation that saw 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 that 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.

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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.

Judge Douglas McKeon 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.

Not on grounds that he is innocent of the charges, but on the grounds that he had diplomatic immunity. Why on earth would he ever think he could be charged with any crime when he has diplomatic immunity?

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.

Some guys have all the luck.

And, by the way, I think there are many more connections in the prostitution industry (and in particular the faction of it that deals in children) in political circles. I'm still waiting for them to nail Poppy Bush and Darkheart Cheney.