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"The case isn't officially over. A prosecutor in the DA's office says the rape charge will continue, because forensic evidence establishes a sexual encounter. In light of the woman's recorded conversation about cashing in on the incident, it is difficult to see the point. Instead, the Manhattan DA should dig deeper into the reasons for those large cash deposits to the woman's bank account. Mr. Strauss-Kahn's allies inevitably will suggest the money was part of a plot to entrap him. If it was only part of routine money-laundering, that needs to be established quickly.
Mr. Vance's office loaded up a lot of its reputation on the credibility of one witness in a high-profile case. That reputation has taken a hit. That said, Mr. Vance deserves credit for resisting the modern, Javert-like prosecutor compulsion to grind these cases through the courts. If it's over, it should be over.
As to Dominique Strauss-Kahn, no doubt he has been handled roughly. Some in France will ascribe this to "the Americans." We would suggest it is truer to say that if a man is known throughout the world as simply "DSK," he has attained a degree of stature and fame that he can protect or pointlessly put at risk. Running an international institution or running for the presidency of an important nation is incompatible—if no one has noticed by now—with also being a famous and full-time roue.
There was a time when the peccadilloes, misdemeanors and even high crimes of public officials might be carried out on the tides. No longer. In the modern media age, nothing of this sort is ever "small" for people in public life, which—hard as it is to recall—brings with it public responsibilities.
People like Dominique Strauss-Kahn or Anthony Weiner, who want to skate along the edge of responsibility to the public they serve and the excitements of private temptation, should probably retire to private life where they can take their chances with nothing more than private reputation.
The case of Dominique Strauss-Kahn has turned out to be a useful if rugged lesson for prosecutors, the media, politicians, gawkers and the famous man at the center of it all. With luck, the lessons may even be learned."
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