{"id":7435,"date":"2012-02-23T13:58:38","date_gmt":"2012-02-23T13:58:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.faceofmalawi.com\/?p=7435"},"modified":"2012-02-23T13:58:38","modified_gmt":"2012-02-23T13:58:38","slug":"strauss-kahn-released-after-questioning-in-prostitution-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/2012\/02\/23\/strauss-kahn-released-after-questioning-in-prostitution-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Strauss-Kahn released after questioning in prostitution case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.faceofmalawi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/pregnant.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.faceofmalawi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/pregnant.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"pregnant\" width=\"183\" height=\"275\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5985\" \/><\/a>Former International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strass-Kahn was released late Wednesday from police custody after two days of questioning in an investigation of alleged payments to prostitutes at sex parties, media reports said.<\/p>\n<p>Strauss-Kahn, who resigned from the IMF last year after being accused of sexually assaulting a hotel maid in New York, was released from police custody in Lille, northern France, the BBC reported.<\/p>\n<p>He was to appear March 28 in court before a judge who would determine whether to press charges.<\/p>\n<p>At issue is whether he knew that women at orgies he admitted attending were paid for sex, a charge he denies. Police are also investigating whether any payments to the women were made using embezzled corporate money.<\/p>\n<p>According to media reports, the women were paid 500-1,600 euros (660-2,120 dollars) to attend sex parties in Paris and New York.<\/p>\n<p>Police were able to hold Strauss-Kahn \u2013 once seen as a likely socialist candidate for the presidency against incumbent Nicolas Sarkozy \u2013 for up to 48 hours without charge.<\/p>\n<p>New York state court charges were dropped in the hotel maid\u2019s case after her reliability as a witness was called into question.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strass-Kahn was released late Wednesday from police custody after two days of questioning in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[81],"tags":[1631,1632,1633,1634],"class_list":["post-7435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-france","tag-prostitution","tag-sex-parties","tag-strauss-kahn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7435\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}