Armed guards stand guard 24 hours a day. Cameras record every gesture, and monitors the prisoner alert authorities should try to escape. This is the new prison of Dominique Strauss-Kahn later in prison, after the former leader of the IMF charged with sexual assault on a maid left a prison in the city of New York for a posh residency and expensive.
The plans hit a snag Friday when a complex of apartments Upper East Side tony refused to accept the single French candidate for the Presidency because of the unwanted media attention. Instead, Strauss-Kahn was installed Saturday in a lower Manhattan towers in the Department of Police of New York of steel ring, a private network and police cameras. It is guarded by Stroz Friedberg, the same security firm kept dishonoured financier Bernard Madoff under supervision in his own apartment.
It is not clear when and where he would be transferred to a permanent residency. calls to his lawyer and the security firm were not returned Saturday.
Even with severe restrictions, the family patrimony of Strauss-Kahn gave him one of the cushiest surety agreements possible. But it don't come expensive. The cost to secure the former head of the Monetary Fund International has been estimated at $200,000 per month - and he must pay the invoice. In comparison, it costs the city about $6,500 per month to House an inmate in an institution like Rikers Island, where he was held nearly a week.
The funds will be used to reinforced monitoring, the installation of cameras and a special bracelet chained ankle that will trigger an alarm if he travels too far.
Right now, it is prohibited on all, but after it is moved to a more permanent location, he can leave for the Court, visits the doctor and the weekly religious services. Prosecutors must be notified at least six hours before it goes anywhere. It cannot be between 10 pm and 6 pm.
And it will not be lonely: Strauss-Kahn can have visitors - up to four at a time in addition to the family.
Aged 62, was indicted by a grand jury this week on charges, including criminal sexual abuse and attempted rape in the alleged attack the weekend last at the Sofitel near Times Square in Manhattan.
He was detained at the prison because a judge originally sided prosecutors who believed a substantial risk of flight, taking into account of its wealth and its status as international, and worried if he was simply released it would flee in France, which has laws on extradition that favor its residents. Initially his lawyers sought his release on bail of $ 1 million, but revised the plan later in the week to add more stringent restrictions of house arrest.
State Supreme Justice Michael j. SB signed off the coast on the plan and ordered the release of Strauss-Kahn of Rikers Island Friday.
A spokesman for Stroz Friedberg did no comment on the last client of the company.
The company has a history of high stakes, high-wealth customers: it guarantee Mahender and Varsha Sabhnani, rich Long Island couple, recognized domestic, guilty of two bondage they brought the Indonesia keeping their travel with documents perform forced. In the detention of home of the couple, the firm was reprimanded by judge allowing Mahender Sabhnani remain out in business in Manhattan until 1 a.m. meetings.
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