Oh, what not a surprise...

Angela Charlton has a Time article about Dominique Strauss-Kahn, yet again:

French investigators are studying accusations that Dominique Strauss-Kahn may have been involved in a rape during a sex party in a Washington hotel in 2010 while he was chief of the International Monetary Fund, a judicial official said recently. Strauss-Kahn, via his lawyers, denied any violence, and said he's the subject of a public "lynching campaign". The prominent economist, once a top contender for France's presidency, has seen his career and reputation crumble since he was accused of sexual assault in a New York hotel a year ago.
Investigating judges in the northern French city of Lille have asked for prosecutors' permission to broaden a suspected prostitution probe to examine claims of rape in Washington in December of 2010, according to an official at the Lille prosecutor's office.
The prosecutor's office will decide next week whether to expand the investigation, the official said. The official was not authorized to be publicly named because of prosecutor's office policy.
Strauss-Kahn was already a target in the Lille prostitution probe, which has mushroomed over the past year into a nationwide scandal. He faces preliminary charges of alleged aggravated pimping, based on accusations by other people questioned in the investigation.
He denies those charges. He has acknowledged being involved in "libertine" activity while saying that he was unaware of anyone being paid for sex. The Lille prosecutor's office gave no details of the US rape accusations.
The French daily Liberation reported that two Belgian prostitutes questioned in the Lille probe described Strauss-Kahn as using violence during sex at the W Hotel in Washington and forcing one of them to have anal sex despite her protests.
Citing leaked transcripts of witness testimony to Belgian police, also involved in the probe, Liberation cited one of the prostitutes as saying that Strauss-Kahn "used force, he held down my hands, he pulled my hair, he hurt me." The woman is quoted as testifying that another man held her hands down while Strauss-Kahn assaulted her.
In response to a request from The Associated Press, Washington police checked their records for 16 December 2010 and the W hotel— the date and place cited in media reports— and found no reports describing allegations of such activity at the hotel.
Washington police spokeswoman Gwendolyn Crump said French authorities have not reached out to the D.C. police department about the allegations. "We have to have a report of a crime to investigate it," she said.
Bruce Sorensen, director of sales and marketing at the hotel, said he couldn't comment or confirm which guests were at the hotel the night in question. Bill Miller, a spokesman for the US attorney's office in Washington, Friday to comment on the allegations.
The women haven't filed legal complaints in France, but the French legal system allows for an investigation, even without a formal complaint. "Strauss-Kahn absolutely contests having committed the slightest violence of any nature, and notes that the declarations made by the young women are contradictory," his French lawyers Frederique Beaulieu and Richard Malka said in a statement.
A French writer had accused Strauss-Kahn of sexually assaulting her during an interview in 2003, but prosecutors ruled last year that too much time had passed to pursue her complaint.

Rico says the guy's gotta problem...