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  • Keith, ????

  • Most people spell it tow the line.

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  • Nicholas gets an A+ for knowing how to spell toe the line correctly. 

  • I suspect she has been a naughty girl and wont do as she s told.... by the cabal that is... and they are teaching her a lesson. toe the line or else...

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  • Below is the integral article. Sorry it ended up reaching a payed site.

  • French investigators have raided the Paris home of Christine Lagarde, head of the International Monetary Fund, in a probe into allegations that she acted illegally in approving a €400m compensation payment made to a prominent supporter of Nicolas Sarkozy when she was French finance minister

    Ms Lagarde has denied any wrongdoing in the case, which stems from her role in an arbitration process to settle a long-running legal action by Bernard Tapie, a colourful multimillionaire French businessman, against Credit Lyonnais, a state-owned bank.

      
    Mr Tapie, a one-time minister under socialist president François Mitterrand who backed the centre-right Mr Sarkozy’s successful presidential run in 2007, claimed the bank defrauded him over the sale of Adidas, the sports company that he owned for a time in the 1990s.

    In 2008, the arbitration panel awarded Mr Tapie €285m plus interest, paid by the state. Ms Lagarde is under investigation by the Court of Justice of the Republic, a special court dealing with ministerial wrongdoing, on suspicion of abuse of power for not seeking to appeal the sum awarded on behalf of taxpayers.

    In recent months, investigators have carried out a series of raids on the homes of Mr Tapie and other people involved in the affair, including Stéphane Richard, the chief executive of France Telecom who was Ms Lagarde’s chef de cabinet at the time, and Claude Guéant, previously secretary-general at the Elysée Palace under Mr Sarkozy.

    Yves Repiquet, lawyer for Ms Lagarde, told Reuters: “This search will help uncover the truth, which will contribute to exonerating my client from any criminal wrongdoing.”

    To date, the case has not impinged on Ms Lagarde’s work at the IMF. A spokesman said Ms Lagarde, who was en route from Frankfurt to Washington when the raid occurred, was available at any time to answer police questions in the investigation, which was opened in 2011.

    The IMF board is understood to have given its full support to Ms Lagarde, who succeeded compatriot Dominique Strauss-Kahn after he was forced to resign in a sex scandal in May 2011.

    That situation could change if the court decides to take further action against her.

    At the time of the Tapie settlement, the then opposition socialist party accused Mr Sarkozy of having rewarded the businessman for his support in the election. Ms Lagarde has insisted that she acted correctly in the settlement of a case that had cost taxpayers heavily in lengthy litigation.

  • Not sure she will get much karmic debt erasure with this one. Here is another link on the subject:

    http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/world/police-raid-home-of-imf-...

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