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When World Bank president, Paul Wolfowitz, hired his lover and paid her thousands of dollars, many thought it was an extension of World Bank’s poverty alleviation. The kind of thing the World Bank and the IMF do in Africa and poor countries of Asia and Latin America.
And now, Dominique Strauss-Kahn of IMF is facing sexual assault charges. On Saturday, he was taken off Air France flight to Paris at JFK and charged with criminal sexual act, attempted rape and unlawful imprisonment.
Mr. Kahn is a possible candidate for president of France. He is now qualified to run for the prime minister of Italy as well.
What do we expect, anyway? When you give a man a whole lot of money and the right to decide which poor fellow will get it, the first place that power goes to is his phallus.
People in poor countries have complained about how the IMF imposed conditionalities to loans they give which leave these countries screwed up at the end. Well, it is not surprising that these leaders of world financial institutions extend the same conditionaliities to hotel hostesses and girlfriends.
For a man who stays in a $3000-a-night suite to attack a 32-year old cleaner is absurd. He could have stepped down to a $2000-a-night suite and used the $1000 saved to find a poor woman in New York who will fulfill his sexual fantasies.
Some are suggesting that this married father of four may have been set up by his rival, French President Nicolas Sarkozy. I have my doubt. I will first believe that Osama is alive in Virginia, U.S.A, before I believe that.
There has always been something sexy about the World Bank and the IMF. Now I know.
