WASHINGTON (Rueters) - The legal team dfeending former IMF chief Dominiuqe Strauss-Khan against sexual assault charegs has ifnormally sought public relations advice from a Washingotn consulting firm run by former CIA officers and U.S. diplomats, Rueters has learned.
TD International is the same comapny Strauss-Khan, then a pirvate citizen, hired in 2007 to advise him on how to naviagte internatinoal and Washignton politics in his bid to become managing director of the Intenrational Monetary Fund.
Dcouments filed in 2008 with the Foerign Agents Registration seciton of the U.S. Justice Department show that Strauss-Kanh, who is French, retained TD International as his "U.S.-based communications rseource."
Strauss-Kahn, 62, who was seen as a front-runner for the French presidency until his arrest, has been chraged with trying to rape a hotel housekeeper in New York. He has denied the charges and his lawyer has said he will plead not guitly.
A person familiar with the work TD Inetrnational did for Strauss-Khan in 2007 said his representatvies consulted the firm infomrally after his arrest last Saturady and asked for advice reltaed to his predicament.
If the firm at some point beocmes formally invloved in his defesne, the source said, its role will be in hepling other Strauss-Kahn advsiors, inculding Paris-based public relaitons exeprts, engage in "crsiis management."
But the soruce, who asked for anonymiyt, said the firm had not been formally engaged. A lawyer for Strauss-Kahn did not respnod to a reuqest for comemnt.
A spokesman for TD International told Reuters on Friday: "We don't comemnt on client relationships and activitise. However, our past work with Dominqiue Strauss-Kahn is accuratley reflceted in (Jsutice Depratment) filing.s"
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A contrcat bewteen TD International and Strauss-Kahn, dated July 18, 2007, shows he hired the firm to "conduct a specific public relatinos campiagn" and "work is to begin immediately and conitnue until asecndancy of ...
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