The case against former International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn, who was charged with sexually assaulting a hotel housekeeper, is near collapse, the New York Times reported on Thursday.
The paper quoted what it said were two well-placed law enforcement officials as saying that although forensic evidence showed there had been a sexual encounter between the French politician and the maid, the accuser had repeatedly lied and prosecutors did not believe much about what she had told them about the circumstances and about herself.
It said prosecutors had met with Strauss-Kahn’s lawyers on Thursday and the parties were discussing whether to dismiss the felony charges. Strauss-Kahn’s defense attorney, Benjamin Brafman, said earlier on Thursday that their client would go back to court in New York on Friday at 11:30am (1530 GMT) before Judge Michael Obus to seek changes to his bail conditions.
