French Court Reviews Strauss-Kahn Pimping Charges A French court is deciding whether to drop preliminary charges of aggravated pimping against former International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn. His lawyers have argued the investigating judges in the case are biased. The case revolves around a suspected luxury prostitution ring in northern France. A court in the French city of Douai is expected to decide Wednesday whether to maintain the preliminary charges. Strauss-Kahn's lawyers say he attended "libertine" gatherings but didn't know some women present were paid. The case is one part of an intercontinental legal saga that exposed Strauss-Kahn's active sex life and buried his French presidential ambitions. Strauss-Kahn reached a settlement in New York last week with a hotel maid who accused of him of trying to rape her in May 2011.