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Accused of pimping, Strauss-Kahn faces French trial verdict

FILE, this Feb. 11, 2015 file image shows former Managing Director of International Monetary Fund Dominique Strauss Kahn leaving his hotel in Lille, northern France, as he goes on trial for sex charges at a court. Dominique Strauss-Kahn faces a verdict Friday in the last of a string of legal cases that started when a New York hotel maid accused him of sexual assault in 2011. The onetime presidential contender and former International Monetary Fund chief is accused of aggravated pimping in a prostitution trial in the French city of Lille, but he may well be acquitted for lack of evidence of a crime. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena, File) FILE, this Feb. 11, 2015 file image shows former Managing Director of International Monetary Fund Dominique Strauss Kahn leaving his hotel in Lille, northern France, as he goes on trial for sex charges at a court. Dominique Strauss-Kahn faces a verdict Friday in the last of a string of legal cases that started when a New York hotel maid accused him of sexual assault in 2011. The onetime presidential contender and former International Monetary Fund chief is accused of aggravated pimping in a prostitution trial in the French city of Lille, but he may well be acquitted for lack of evidence of a crime. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena, File)

By Associated Press June 11, 2015 1 min read

PARIS (AP) – Dominique Strauss-Kahn faces a verdict on whether he is guilty of “aggravated pimping” – the last of a string of legal challenges that started when a New York hotel maid accused him of sexual assault in 2011.

The former International Monetary Fund chief could get up to 10 years in prison and a 1.5 million euros ($1.7 million) fine if found guilty by a court in the French city of Lille on Friday. He is among a dozen defendants in a complex prostitution trial.

There is a good chance he may be acquitted. Even the prosecutor, unusually, said there wasn’t enough evidence for a conviction.

Strauss-Kahn has admitted to participating in orgies but denies profiting from prostitution or being aware that women involved in the case were prostitutes.