NEW YORK – Representatives of former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn are not in contact with the hotel housekeeper he is charged with trying to rape or her family, his lawyers said yesterday.
Media reports that representatives of Mr Strauss-Kahn contacted the woman or her family were false, his lawyers William Taylor and Ben Brafman said in a statement.
“We continue to believe that Mr Strauss-Kahn will be fully exonerated,” they said.
The New York Postnewspaper said on Tuesday that friends of Mr Strauss-Kahn reached out to the woman's extended family in the West African state of Guinea, because they were unable to contact her in New York, in a bid to pay them money to try to keep the woman quiet about her accusations. – (Reuters)