Ex-FMI head Strauss-Kahn, released from prison

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.

Strauss-Kahn monitored permanently

The former head of the International Monetary Fund Dominique Strauss-Kahn was released Friday from Rikers Island prison on a bail of cash million dollars and is staying in a housing temporary building in lower Manhattan belonged to the company responsible for monitoring security him 24 hours a day.

Under a contract of suretyship Wednesday approved, Strauss-Kahn, 62, will be allowed to stay in Friedberg of Stroz corporate apartments and will be monitored continuously by the company. Strauss-Kahn was initially remain there in the construction of Bristol Plaza until the luxury opposed tenants of the apartment building.

Current apartment of Strauss-Kahn is the Empire of 21 storey building located on Broadway 71, with a view of the cemetery of the Church of the Trinity.

Strauss-Kahn came shortly after his release from Rikers Island, and his wife journalist, American journalist Anne Sinclair, arrived later.

The crews and the reporters of the TV are implemented in a street alley. Security is heavy and would have been armed.

Strauss-Kahn should stay in the apartment for only three or four days then his family searches for a permanent residence in the city.

Bail, Strauss-Kahn is necessary to stay in New York and will not leave the Stroz Friedberg building except for medical emergencies.

Once a permanent location is found, it will be allowed to leave in certain circumstances, provided that the Crown is given six hours notice.

It was good news to the prosecution, who have been unable to convince the Court that Strauss-Kahn is a flight risk.

The former head of the IMF was arrested on Saturday a plane of Air France in Paris, a few hours after that the alleged sexual assault on a hotel maid took place.

The prosecution argued that Strauss-Kahn tried to escape once, and that he has the means and the incentive to flee again.

"He has the stature and the resources necessary to lead a life of ease and comfort in the parts of the world that are beyond this Court, Attorney for District Deputy John McConnell argued in court Thursday.

Dominique Strauss-Kahn, once famous in Europe as a possible candidate would be the next President, is now an internationally notorious after a woman of Chamber at the Sofitel Hotel in the city of New York has accused Strauss-Kahn would have his attacking and forcing them to submit to oral sex.

A grand jury put in charge of the former head of the IMF on seven counts - carrying up to 25 years in prison - including the costs of criminal sexual assault, attempted rape and sexual assault.

Law enforcement officials say Saturday last Strauss-Kahn is out of her bathroom of suite of $3,000 per night naked and attempted to rape the wife of West Africa of 32 years who was clean.

The district attorney, said that the forensic evidence appears to be consistent with his account.

ABC News confirmed that the police collected several elements of physical evidence of the hotel room, which are tested for DNA, including a swath of carpet.

Investigators say the suite door electronic reader downloaded information indicates the maid came in the room and never closed the door.

The hotel policy requires servantes leave the door open when cleaning. The door open, say, is proof that women entered the room work, not to engage in consensual sex.

Strauss-Kahn resigned from his position as Director General of the IMF Wednesday, saying: he wanted to, "to protect this institution which I served with honor and devotion" and to concentrate on the upcoming trial.

His next court appearance is set for June 6.

Cue the conspiracy theories: the reaction of Strauss-Kahn and French democracy

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There is no end to the wild speech triggered by the arrest of Dominique Strauss-Kahn by the police of New York, May 14, on charges of sexual assault, attempted rape and unlawful imprisonment. As if the extraordinary nature of this case and the breathtaking - and dramatic - situation in which the former head of the Monetary Fund International is now could justify more extravagant explanations.

Since the news broke every first Sunday, the notion that it was all a set-up means to unseat Strauss-Kahn is widespread as forest fires, particularly on the Internet. The world of imagination is boundless, every theory put forward seems more surprising than the other: they point to the CIA or rivals within the IMF, of large US banks or financial interests threatened by Strauss-Kahn thrust regulationplans murky by some "black cabinet" working for Nicolas Sarkozy to the Elysée Palace, or even the rival Socialist Party only too willing to get rid of a dangerous candidate before the presidential election of 2012. (See the photos of the career of Dominique Strauss-Kahn).

The conspiracy theories were fueled by the fact that certain personalities policies - supporters of Strauss-Kahn, but not only - does seem unwilling to exclude the possibility of a "trap" or "handling". In an interview with the French daily liberation that took place on 28 April, Dominique Strauss-Kahn himself alluded to the possibility that such set up could be organized by his enemies.

To top it all, a poll conducted Monday by the CSA Institute showed that 57% of the French public thought that the former head of the IMF "is the victim of a conspiracy," with the number reached 70% in the case of voters from the left.

Regardless of whether if the poll in question is legal or not - the Act adopted Guigou in 2000 requires that without these surveys are taken on a person protected by the presumption of innocence - the investigation reveals important details on the State of mind in the country of ("I think quedonc I'm"philosopher"") René Descartes and beyond. (See why theories of conspiracy of 9/11 Won't go away).

It is normal that most people find this case totally outrageous - and exciting - given that the alleged sex scandal involves one of the most powerful men of the world, and a potential candidate to the Presidency of the French Republic. But this does not mean that we should suddenly stop analyzing the facts with caution and good sense? Obviously not. Unless we are willing to admit that to challenge any authority and especially the authority of justice (be it American, in this case), reached today a troubling point of no return. Unless we are prepared to say that the efforts of investigation of the media to make has more no weight to elucubrations crazy that Internet spreads instantly everywhere around the world.

We should not still here are therefore ready to abandon in the kind of frenzy of conspiracy theories that spawned from the attacks of September 11. Let us not forget that this phenomenon is one of the sources very of totalitarianism, a sign of a democracy in regression.

Strauss-Kahn resigned as head of the IMF

NEW YORK  - the Monetary Fund International said Dominique Strauss-Kahn resigned his accusations following heads against him of sexual assault and attempted rape.

"I deny in the strongest possible all the allegations made against me," Strauss-Kahn, said in his letter of resignation, which was published by the IMF and dated May 18. "."

"I want to devote all my strength, all my time and my energy to prove my innocence."

It will be on Thursday for a second application of time free on $ 1 million cash bail and placement monitored 24 hours while he awaits trial on charges of attempted rape of a servant of the hotel, his lawyers said. He is detained in the notorious Rikers Island prison in New York. Spokesman of Office of the Attorney of District of Manhattan Erin Duggan "Yes it will be certainly a security tomorrow," said Reuters Wednesday.

Arrest of Strauss-Kahn has crushed his chances to run for French President in 2012 and raised more general questions on the future of the Monetary Fund International.

Developing countries questioned Europe hold on first place in the IMF, and manoeuvres to replace him has already begun.

TIMELINE EMERGES

New details emerged Wednesday about the sequence of events surrounding the alleged sexual assault on the servant. Strauss-Kahn left the Sofitel near Times Square in Manhattan to 12: 30 pm EDT on Saturday, and about an hour later, the hotel security called police to report a sexual assault, said a source from the application of the law.

The European Commission President José Manuel Barroso, said that Europe would be naturally presented a candidate to replace Strauss-Kahn, should he resign.