Strauss-Kahn Sex-Assault Case Timeline: Arrest To End of Home Confinement
Following is the chronology of the sexual-assault case against Dominique Strauss-Kahn.
May 14: A housekeeper in the Sofitel hotel in New York claims Strauss-Kahn sexually assaulted and attempted to rape her, He is detained at John F. Kennedy International Airport and taken into custody.
May 15: Strauss-Kahn is charged in a criminal complaint with attempted rape and unlawful imprisonment. His lawyer Benjamin Brafman says he will plead not guilty.
May 16: Strauss-Kahn is ordered held without bail on Riker’s Island, the city’s main jail complex, near LaGuardia Airport.
May 19: Strauss-Kahn is indicted by a grand jury on seven charges including attempted rape. The court decides on bail terms. He resigns as managing director of the International Monetary Fund, saying he wants to devote his time and energy to proving his innocence.
May 20: Strauss-Kahn is released from jail on $1 million bail, $5 million bond and under security restrictions that include electronic monitoring and armed guard. He is allowed to leave home only for legal, religious and medical purposes.
June 6: Strauss-Kahn pleads not guilty to charges in the indictment. Defense attorney Brafmen tells reporters, “There there was no element of forcible compulsion in this case whatsoever.”
June 8-9: The housekeeper reveals to prosecutors she lied about a gang rape in her native Guinea and other matters on her application for asylum in the U.S.
June 9: Kenneth Thompson, the woman’s lawyer, stops prosecutors from interviewing her. They are unable to speak to her for 19 days.
June 28: The woman tells prosecutors she didn’t tell the truth before the grand jury about what happened immediately after the encounter.
June 29: Prosecutors obtain a summary of a taped telephone conversation between the woman and a friend incarcerated in Arizona. The translation from her native Fulani language has the woman saying, in substance, “Don’t worry, this guy has a lot of money. I know what I’m doing,” according to a person familiar with the matter.
June 30: Prosecutors receive the date of the recorded conversation, May 15. Prosecutors also meet with defense attorneys and turn over information tending to exculpate Strauss-Kahn and impeach the maid as a witness.
July 1: Prosecutors agree to release Strauss-Kahn on his own recognizance, while keeping his travel documents. Justice Michael Obus of state Supreme Court approves, telling the defendant, “The case is not over.” Strauss-Kahn, freed from home confinement, is to return to court on July 18.
To contact the reporter on this story: Karen Freifeld in New York at kfreifeld@bloomberg.net.
To contact the editor responsible for this story: Michael Hytha at mhytha@bloomberg.net.
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