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IMF Head Arrested, Accused of Sexual Assault

   VOA News  May 14, 2011
   International Monetary Fund [IMF] Managing Director Dominique Strauss
   Kahn attends the IMF/World Bank spring meetings in Washington, April
   15, 2011

Photo: AP

   International Monetary Fund [IMF] Managing Director Dominique Strauss
   Kahn attends the IMF/World Bank spring meetings in Washington, April
   15, 2011

   The head of the International Monetary Fund has been arrested in New
   York City and accused of sexual assault on a hotel maid.
   New York police spokesman Paul Browne says Dominique Strauss-Kahn is in
   custody and was being questioned Saturday evening. Police say
   Strauss-Kahn was pulled off an airplane Saturday evening that was just
   minutes from taking off for Paris.
   Strauss-Kahn was accused of making unwanted sexual advances on a maid
   in his hotel room at the Sofitel Hotel, where he was staying until
   Saturday afternoon.
   Strauss-Kahn took charge of the IMF in November 2007. The former French
   Finance Minister is considered a leading contender to run as the
   Socialist Party's candidate against President Nicolas Sarkozy in
   France's 2012 election. Some say Mr. Sarkozy supported Strauss-Kahn to
   become the IMF director as a ploy to keep him away from French
   politics.
   Strauss-Kahn is married to a prominent French television reporter, but
   has weathered previous sex scandals. In 2008, he apologized for what he
   termed "an error in judgement" for an affair with one of his
   subordinates.

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