DSK—Champagne Socialist
The sordid saga of Dominique Strauss Kahn disgraced chief of the International Monetary Fund continues. Allegations that the high-flying money man and presumed heir apparent of the French Socialist Party, sexually assaulted a chambermaid at the posh Sofitel in New York, sadly may be true. Prosecutors have allowed DSK to move from a maximum security facility at Rikers Island, to a decidedly more comfortable house arrest setting in the city’s trendy Tribeca district.
Thus in the course of two weeks, DSK went from the heights of a $3,000 per night suite at the Sofitel, to the depths of Dante’s inferno for the criminal classes, and now to a $50,000 per month Manhattan townhouse.
DSK was the likely standard bearer of the French Socialist Party in next year’s Presidential elections, opposing Nicolas Sarkozy. Now on the fractious Socialist Party side, the field is wide open and the game is about to begin.
In the meantime DSK, the Champagne Socialist, remains under house arrest in his gilded cage of a multi-million dollar townhouse, awaiting trial in New York.
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