IMF chief swaps jail for house arrest on Broadway
May 22, 2011, Sunday
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Former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn has traded prison for house arrest in the New York City police department's "Ring of Steel" - a network of private and police cameras around where the World Trade Center once stood.
During Strauss-Kahn's time at the 21-story Empire Building, at least one armed guard will be watching him at all times, and he will have to wear an electronic ankle bracelet. His apartment's exterior doors will have alarms and video cameras on orders from the judge who granted him US$1 million cash bail on charges he tried to rape a hotel maid.
The 62-year-old former managing director of the International Monetary Fund had been behind bars for a week. He has denied the allegations.
The original plan was for Strauss-Kahn to move into a luxury residential hotel under armed guard on Manhattan's well-to-do Upper East Side. Even though the address was never officially released, police and media converged on the building, the Bristol Plaza.
Media invasion
"Last night there was an effort by the media to invade the building," Strauss-Kahn attorney William Taylor said. "That is why the tenants in the building will not accept his living there."
While Strauss-Kahn's family had a lease and could have stayed, he decided to leave "out of respect for the residents."
Late in the day, after the snag over where the banker would serve his house arrest had been resolved, Strauss-Kahn was released from the city's Rikers Island jail and moved to the landmark apartment building, a person familiar with his housing arrangements said, speaking on condition of anonymity because the person wasn't authorized to speak publicly.
The apartment building on Broadway in Manhattan's Financial District, several blocks from ground zero where the World Trade Center towers were demolished by terrorists, rents two-bedroom apartments starting at US$4,250 a month.
"This is intended to be temporary, meaning a few days, and in the meantime, efforts would be made to arrange for another suitable residence," state Supreme Court Justice Michael Obus said.
(AP)
During Strauss-Kahn's time at the 21-story Empire Building, at least one armed guard will be watching him at all times, and he will have to wear an electronic ankle bracelet. His apartment's exterior doors will have alarms and video cameras on orders from the judge who granted him US$1 million cash bail on charges he tried to rape a hotel maid.
The 62-year-old former managing director of the International Monetary Fund had been behind bars for a week. He has denied the allegations.
The original plan was for Strauss-Kahn to move into a luxury residential hotel under armed guard on Manhattan's well-to-do Upper East Side. Even though the address was never officially released, police and media converged on the building, the Bristol Plaza.
Media invasion
"Last night there was an effort by the media to invade the building," Strauss-Kahn attorney William Taylor said. "That is why the tenants in the building will not accept his living there."
While Strauss-Kahn's family had a lease and could have stayed, he decided to leave "out of respect for the residents."
Late in the day, after the snag over where the banker would serve his house arrest had been resolved, Strauss-Kahn was released from the city's Rikers Island jail and moved to the landmark apartment building, a person familiar with his housing arrangements said, speaking on condition of anonymity because the person wasn't authorized to speak publicly.
The apartment building on Broadway in Manhattan's Financial District, several blocks from ground zero where the World Trade Center towers were demolished by terrorists, rents two-bedroom apartments starting at US$4,250 a month.
"This is intended to be temporary, meaning a few days, and in the meantime, efforts would be made to arrange for another suitable residence," state Supreme Court Justice Michael Obus said.
(AP)
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