Former International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn posted $1 million bail on Friday, a day after a New York judge said he could be released under 24-hour supervision and confinement, but he remained in custody well into the afternoon after his original living arrangement fell through.
The complications with Strauss-Kahn’s release from Rikers Island jail arose when managers at a building where his wife, Anne Sinclair, had planned to rent an apartment for her and her husband reportedly backed out of the agreement.
The luxury apartment building at 210 E 65th St. sits on Manhattan’s tony Upper East Side. In anticipation of Strauss-Kahn’s release, reporters and television crews had swarmed the building, where some residents had complained that the former IMF chief’s presence would cause unwanted attention.
Building managers did not respond to a request for comment.
Prosecutors and defense attorneys were scrambling Friday to find another place where Strauss-Kahn could stay while he awaits court proceedings on charges that he tried to rape a hotel main last weekend in Midtown Manhattan. A judge was yet to sign off on the amended agreement.
A spokeswoman for the Manhattan district attorney’s office said the office could not confirm when Strauss-Kahn will be released and where he will be taken. “The defendant will be going to a temporary location upon his release, and will be moved to a permanent location when that location is finalized,”spokeswoman Erin Duggan said.
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