Hotel, Porches and no taxes: socialist Dominique Strauss Kahn's IMF perks! Socialist, huh?

It's good to be managing director of the International Monetary Fund. Until you're caught up in an unsavory sex scandal.

As one of the IMF's top officials, France's Dominique Strauss-Kahn has been riding high for years (largely on the tax dollars from developed countries). Just look at the hotel he stayed at on May 14 when he was accused of sexually assaulting a maid. Strauss-Kahn roomed at the upscale Sofitel in New York City's Times Square in a suite that cost $3,000 a night and had its own foyer, conference room, living room, marble bathroom and bedroom (with a king-sized bed and feather and down duvet, apparently).

Yes – the job of international diplomat comes with a lot of things: prestige, power and most definitely perks. More...

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