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According to US Finance Department, Dominique Strauss-Kahn should resign.

18 May,2011 06:39 pm

IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn is accused of trying to rape a 32-year-old Sofitel hotel maid. Sofitel is a widow with a 15-year-old daughter and moved to New York from the West African nation of Ghana about seven years ago.“She had no idea who this man was when she went into the room and in fact had no idea who he was, quite honestly, in the world until approximately the next day. So the idea that someone would suggest that she was involved in some form of conspiracy is ridiculous,” said Sofitel’s counsel Shapiro. Prosecutors have accused Strauss-Kahn, 62, of attacking the maid when she entered his suite, apparently unaware it was occupied, at the luxury Sofitel hotel near Times Square.During Strauss-Kahns first appearance at Manhattan Criminal Court on Monday (May 16), prosecutors said he had sexually assaulted the maid, attempted to rape her and then, when unsuccessful, forced her to perform oral sex on him. Strauss-Kahns lawyers denied the charges of a criminal sexual act, attempted rape, sexual abuse, unlawful imprisonment and forcible touching. He was denied bail on Monday (May 16) and is due to reappear in court on Friday (May 20).He faces up to 25 years in prison if convicted.