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Ex-IMF chief gets bail in NYC sex-assault case

By The Associated Press
Posted 4:36PM on Thursday 19th May 2011 ( 13 years ago )
NEW YORK - Former International Monetary Fund leader Dominique Strauss-Kahn will return to a New York City jail pending his release on bail. Strauss-Kahn is charged with trying to rape a hotel maid and is likely to spend one more night at Rikers Island jail.

A judge set bail at $1 million Thursday, and approved an elaborate arrangement under which the 62-year-old diplomat and banker would be confined to a private apartment in Manhattan and monitored by armed guards.

Strauss-Kahn will also have to take out a $5 million insurance bond.

Prosecutors have said he should remain behind bars.

Strauss-Kahn resigned his IMF post late Wednesday.
Dominique Strauss-Kahn, right, former manager of the International Monetary Fund, talks with his attorney William Taylor, at a bail hearing in Criminal Court, Thursday in New York. Strauss-Kahn faces charges he sexually assaulted a hotel maid. (AP Ph

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