IMF Chief Scandal

NEW YORK (AP) — The former International Monetary Fund head charged with trying to rape a Manhattan hotel maid formally said he was innocent of the charges Monday in his first court appearance in the case in two weeks. Dominique Strauss-Kahn pleaded not guilty in a strong voice at the brief proceeding, standing between his […]

NEW YORK — Prosecutors have said their evidence against the former International Monetary Fund leader charged with sexually assaulting a Manhattan hotel maid was growing by the day. Defense lawyers, meanwhile, have said they had information that would seriously hurt her credibility.

GUINEA — The family of IMF Chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn’s rape accuser are insisting that they would not take money from the billionaire to remain quiet about the accusations, says the NYpost.com.

The New York Post is reporting that friends of former IMF Chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn have contacted the family of the African maid who is charging him with rape have contacted her family in Guinea (West Africa) to help the allegations go away. “They already talked with her family,” a French businesswoman with close ties to […]

NEW YORK — DNA taken from former International Monetary Fund leader Dominique Strauss-Kahn matches material on the uniform of a hotel maid who says he sexually assaulted her, two people familiar with the investigation told The Associated Press.

NEW YORK  — Former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn was released from jail Friday and will be held under house arrest near ground zero after the luxury apartment where he had arranged to stay fell through because the neighbors objected to the media frenzy. Prosecutors said he will be temporarily housed in a building on a […]

NEW YORK – International Monetary Fund chief, Dominique Strauss-Kahn has stepped down from his post after being charged with attempting to rape a maid in a New York City hotel. The New York Daily News reports: “I think at this time first of my wife – whom I love more than anything – of my […]

Dominique Strauss Kahn may have more to worry about than just the sex assault charge a hotel maid levied on him. The West African maid who was allegedly assaulted by Kahn lived in an apartment in the Bronx rented exclusively to people with HIV/AIDS. It is unknown whether the maid has AIDS. The woman has […]

NEW YORK — The leader of the International Monetary Fund and a possible candidate for president of France was pulled from an airplane moments before he was to fly to Paris and was being questioned Saturday by police in connection with the sexual assault of a hotel maid, police said. Dominique Strauss-Kahn was taken off […]