As the court order was being sought, the woman who told the police on Saturday that she had been attacked by Mr. Strauss-Kahn identified him in the lineup, the police said. Mr. Brafman, a prominent New York criminal lawyer, has represented the hip-hop impresario Sean Combs, the Manhattan jeweler Jacob Arabov and Plaxico Burress, the New York Giants wide receiver. Strauss-Kahn, 62, was arrested less than four hours after the alleged assault, plucked from first class on a Paris-bound Air France flight that was just about to leave the gate at John F. Kennedy International Airport. It wasn't clear why he was in New York. According to the law enforcement official, the woman entered Mr. Strauss-Kahn’s suite early Saturday afternoon by saying “housekeeping.” She heard no answer and believed that the suite was unoccupied. Instead, Strauss-Kahn emerged from the bathroom naked, chased her down a hallway and pulled her into a bedroom, where he sexually assaulted her, New York Police Department spokesman Paul J. Browne said. The woman told police she fought him off, but then he dragged her into the bathroom, where he forced her to perform oral sex on him and tried to remove her underwear. The police said the woman eventually escaped from the suite and reported the attack to other hotel personnel, who called 911. The police were called to the hotel about 1:30 on Saturday, but when they arrived, Mr. Strauss-Kahn had already checked out. At some point, Mr. Strauss-Kahn called the hotel and said that his cellphone was missing. "Behind him he has other affairs ... Journalists began arriving at the courthouse in the morning and their numbers increased as the day went on. He took over as head of the IMF in November 2007.
– The Manhattan hotel maid accusing IMF boss Dominique Strauss-Kahn of sexual assault picked him out of a police lineup yesterday, reports the New York Times. Strauss-Kahn was taken to the Manhattan Special Victims Unit in East Harlem where DNA evidence was collected from his skin and beneath his fingernails, authorities said. Strauss-Kahn is due to be arraigned later today, where he is expected to be allowed to post bail. Due to worries that he may attempt to flee the country, however, bail is expected to be in the millions of dollars. Strauss-Kahn had been widely considered the leading candidate in this year's French presidential race, reports AP. Supporters wear T-shirts that read "Yes we Kahn," a play on Barack Obama's famous "Yes we can" slogan of 2008. Strauss-Kahn has been dubbed "the great seducer" for his love life by the French media, but reports of his affairs had not hurt his presidential bid. But now, his stunned Socialist party has been thrown into chaos. "It's totally hallucinating," said one of Strauss-Kahn's rivals. "If true, this would be a historic moment in the negative sense for French political life." For more on the crime, check here.