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From: Ed Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2012 5:39 PM To: Epstein, Jeff Subject: DSK gag order According to a judicial source, the ex-French finance minister visited = court in the northern city of Douai to seek a lifting of the gagging =rder and other restrictions that include a 100,000-euro bail bond and = ban on speaking to any plaintiffs in the case. After a closed-door meeting, magistrates said they would deliver their =ecision on May 30. "We argued that it (gagging order) was not part of measures outlined in =egal texts and that it breached fundamental principles like freedom of =peech," Richard Malka, one of Strauss-Kahn's lawyers, told Reuters. Strauss-Kahn's career at the head of the Washington-based International =onetary Fund was cut short when he was arrested in New York in May =011 on charges, since dropped, of attempting to rape a hotel maid. After criminal charges were abandoned over concerns about the maid's =redibility, she pressed ahead with a civil case. A New York judge =ejected Strauss-Kahn's claim of diplomatic immunity earlier this =onth, allowing the case to move forward. Strauss-Kahn was placed under formal investigation in March in the =eparate French case, which had led to the arrest of eight people, =ncluding two Lille businessmen and a police commissioner. If Strauss-Kahn were found guilty on charges of "aggravated organized =imping", he could face up to 20 years in prison. PS. Please excuse the typos, predictive substitutions and imperfect =.I. as ever, Ed Epstein www.edwardjayepstein.com <?xml version=.0" encoding=TF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd"> <plist version=.0"> <dict> <key>conversation-idgkey> <integer>219973</integer> <key>date-last-viewed</key> <integer>0</integer> <key>date-received</key> <integer>1337794718</integer> <key>flags</key> <integer>8590195713</integer> <key>gmail-label-ids</key> <array> <integer>6</integer> <integer>2</integer> </array> EFTA_R1_01712776 EFTA02554985 <key>remote-ick/key> <string>225036</string> </dict> </plist> 2 EFTA_R1_01712777 EFTA02554986