Strauss-Kahn Prosecutor Seen Dropping Charges

[The Northerner]

Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. will move to dismiss the sexual-assault charges against Dominique Strauss-Kahn because they would be difficult to prove beyond a reasonable doubt, former prosecutors predict.

Strauss-Kahn, who resigned as chief of the International Monetary Fund after being arrested and charged with sexual assault and attempted rape in an alleged May 14 attack on a housekeeper in his Manhattan hotel suite, is due back in state court Aug. 23 for a status hearing on the case.

Strauss-Kahn, 62, a onetime French presidential hopeful, was released from home confinement on July 1 after prosecutors told the judge in charge of the case it had been hurt by “substantial credibility issues” caused by lies told by the housekeeper, a political refugee from Guinea. His $1 million bail and $5 million bond were returned and his house arrest was ended.

Prosecutors were told in June by Strauss-Kahn’s accuser, Nafissatou Diallo, 32, that she had lied about a gang rape that occured before she sought political asylum in the U.S., and she changed her story about what she did right after the alleged attack. Before that, police said she gave a credible account of the May 14 incident, and they foun

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