So, DSK resigned as IMF chief. I don't know if the forum as a whole is just apathetic on this issue or if I'm really the first one to read this news. Usually I'm not the first to report breaking announcements like this, on a European politician no less, so I find the lack of an existing discussion frightening.
IMF's Strauss-Kahn resigns amid sex chargesWASHINGTON – Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the embattled managing director of International Monetary Fund, has resigned, saying he wanted to devote "all his energy" to battle the sexual assault charges he faces in New York.
The IMF's executive board released a letter from the French executive Wednesday in which he denied the allegations lodged against him but said that with "sadness" he felt he must resign. He said he was thinking of his family and he wanted to protect the IMF.
Also, the accuser is apparently from Guinea so any possibility of a communicative error in English,which I have heard in several comments to this story, is out the window as she probably spoke fluent French.
