Judges denounce Dominique Strauss Kahn as 'lynchpin' of prostitution ring Text messages made it clear that DSK, as he is known in France, "kept control over the planning of the soirées, which were organised according to his diary availability," they wrote. Some took place in a flat rented by Mr Strauss-Kahn, which suggests, they wrote, that he "committed a material act of pimping" as "making premises available for prostitution is pimping." The judges also argue that Mr Strauss-Kahn deliberately sought to "cover his tracks" by giving one of his mobile phone cards to one of the alleged organisers of the sessions and using coded language for female participants including "gifts" and "equipment." Last month, Mr Strauss-Kahn blasted an "exclusively incriminatory judicial investigation" after the prosecutor chose not to appeal the judges" decision to send him to trial along with 13 other defendants. His lawyer, Richard Malka, slammed a "relentless" and "absurd" judicial onslaught on his client tantamount to a "witch hunt." The Carlton case is one of a series of probes that were launched in the wake of Mr Strauss-Kahn's 2011 arrest in New York on suspicion of sexually assaulting a hotel chambermaid. The judges" scathing assessment of the one-time French presidential favourite comes after he said he gave two interviews in which he claimed he had "no problem with women," and that his political career was "in the past." He said his new career as an economic consultant to big business and politicians was booming, amid reports the Serbian government is considering contracting him as an adviser.