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DSK lawyers claim diplomatic immunity in civil case

Lawyers claim former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn has diplomatic immunity in the civil case over his alleged sexual assault of a Bronx woman. Nafissatou Diallo, 33, says she was working as a maid

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Mar 28, 2012, 5:53 PM

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