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A BELGIAN PROSTITUTE has alleged that she was forced to have group sex with Dominique Strauss-Kahn and three of his friends in December 2010.
The former IMF boss is currently being investigated because of alleged ties to a prostitution ring. He was charged late last month.
Police in Lille are investigating whether female prostitutes were supplied to luxury hotels in France and Belgium in a case which has already implicated police and other local officials.
According to Reuters investigators are now extending their inquiry after a prostitute alleged that gang rape took place in Washington in 2010. A formal complaint has not been filed but the BBC reports that prosecutors are deciding about whether or not to expand the original investigation.
Strauss-Kahn stepped down as the head of the IMF in May 2011 after a maid at a New York hotel alleged that he sexually assaulted him. The charges were dismissed last August but this week
Earlier this week a judge in New York ruled that a civil case taken by the maid can go ahead. Strauss-Kahn has said that he was set up in the aftermath of the scandal.
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Great news guys. Now get onto Hireland and pledge and give a few jobs.
@torpedo, their focus should not be on giving a few jobs, they should focus on continuation of their successful growth strategy, if they succeed jobs will follow.
They made a pre tax profit of 700 million. I think the can afford to hire one or two people.
It is that sort of attitude that leads to inefficiency and eventual ruin, you do not hire people just to sit on their arses.
‘Very challenging environment’ indeed. It’s a tough business building apartheid cement walls around Palestine, but some Irish firm has got to do it.
They are obviously working in a very challenging environment and there is still some way to go before new jobs will emerge. A profit of less than 4% on sales suggest that further cost cutting will be needed to remain competitive.
A challenging environment all right. Putting up Israel’s apartheid wall.
But its good for tricky Dicky Bruton’s portfolio.
Much of these profits have been made on the back of an illegal price-fixing cartel operating in the.concrete and cement industries. Ongoing legal actions taken by Framus Ltd and Goode Concrete serve to demonstrate the extent of the crippling stranglehold CRH have over many small businesses in this country. Compounding this is the negligence of the Competition Authority who steadfastly refuse to investigate the industry despite the severity of the allegations laid at the door of CRH. The term Regulatory Capture comes to mind here.
CRH operate a cartel with others in the cement, concrete and tarmac markets in Ireland. They have been selling concrete below average variable cost in the Dublin concrete market and abused their dominant position in their upstream cement and aggregates markets by doing so. This is illegal and criminal but they are being protected by the successive Governments due to a term called political and regulatory capture.
CRH has been found to have operated a price fixing cartel in Northern Ireland between 1985 and 1992. CRH was fined by the European Commission in 1994 for conducting a pan European cartel. In 2007 CRH was fined €530,000 for obstructing an antitrust investigation and destroying evidence. In 2009 CRH was fined €25 million for participation in a price fixing cartel in Poland.
CRH is doing monumental damage to the Irish economy by overcharging for cement and tarmac and using this money to subsidise a corporate eviction strategy which is costing the economy jobs.
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