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Former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn has been released on his own recognizance and freed from house arrest after credibility issues surfaced with the woman who alleged s-xual assault.

Attorneys for the Strauss-Kahn had asked that he be released after investigators unearthed new details surrounding the alleged victim that appear so grievous that DNA evidence of s-xual contact recovered from his hotel suite may not be enough to overcome them.

Strauss-Kahn has maintained his innocence throughout the case which has drawn international attention and prompted the French financier to step down from his post atop of the International Monetary Fund.

He has been living under house arrest in a luxury townhouse in Manhattan's Tribeca neighborhood. Ref. CNN

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Paris prosecutors investigate Strauss-Kahn accusation

The Paris prosecutor's office has opened a preliminary investigation into accusations by a French writer that former IMF chief Strauss-Kahn tried to r-pe her. Ref. USAToday

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Former International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn will no longer face criminal charges related to allegations that he sexually assaulted a hotel housekeeper, the housekeeper's attorney said Monday after meeting with prosecutors.

A grand jury indicted Strauss-Kahn in May on charges that he sexually assaulted housekeeper Nafissatou Diallo at his luxury New York hotel suite. Strauss-Kahn's attorneys have insisted that any s-xual encounter was consensual.

A judge freed Strauss-Kahn on July 1 after prosecutors learned Diallo had lied about the specifics of her whereabouts after the incident and past details of an asylum application and information on tax forms. Ref. CNN

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All criminal charges in the s-xual assault case against former International Monetary Fund chief Dominque Dominique Strauss-Kahn have been dropped following a hearing with the New York judge overseeing the case.

The news was announced Monday by the hotel housekeeper's attorney after he met with prosecutors. Today, the presiding judge formally dismissed the charges, but that dismisal dismissal will be stayed until an appelate appellate court decides on a request from the accuser's attorney for a special prosecutor.

A grand jury indicted Strauss-Kahn in May on charges that he sexually assaulted Nafissatou Diallo at his luxury New York hotel suite. Strauss-Kahn's attorneys have insisted that any s-xual encounter was consensual.

A judge freed Strauss-Kahn on July 1 after prosecutors learned Diallo had lied about the specifics of her whereabouts after the incident and past details of an asylum application and information on tax forms. Ref. CNN

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What happened regarding a maid in a luxury New York hotel suite in May was a "moral weakness," French politician Dominique Strauss-Kahn said Sunday in an interview with French television station TF1.

He denied any violence or aggression, but said the incident was "an error, a mistake -- a mistake concerning my wife, my children, my friends" as well as the French people "who placed their hope for change in me."

Last month, a judge dismissed s-xual assault charges against him in an international scandal that altered France's political landscape.

Strauss-Kahn was pulled off a Paris-bound plane in May in New York over accusations he sexually assaulted a Guinean maid in a luxury hotel suite in the city.

Days later, he resigned from the International Monetary Fund, spent a few days in jail and was put under house arrest. Ref. CNN

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Dominique Strauss-Kahn, former chief of the International Monetary Fund, was charged in France with "aggravated pimping" for his alleged participation in a prostitution ring, according to French prosecutors.

His attorneys released a statement in November calling the allegations against Strauss-Kahn "unhealthy, sensationalist and not without a political agenda."

Strauss-Kahn has been linked with a number of sex scandals in the past year -- one of which torpedoed his expected plan to run for the French presidency this year -- but he has not been convicted of any crime. Ref. CNN

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Dominique Strauss-Kahn In Trouble Again

New investigation of ex-IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn includes allegation of gang rape, French police say. Ref. CNN

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Dominique Strauss-Kahn denies £3.7m deal with maid who accused him of raping her:

"Media reports that Dominique Strauss-Kahn has agreed to pay $6 million to settle the civil case are flatly false," the attorneys said. "The parties have discussed a resolution but there has been no settlement. Mr. Strauss-Kahn will continue to defend the charges if no resolution can be reached." Ref. Source 9