Strauss-Kahn seeks bail

hearing will seek his release from jail under strict monitoring conditions.
Police spokesman, Walter Glowacz, said that the head of the International Monetary Fund who has been charged with seven counts of sexual assault and attempted rape was already in a holding centre next to the main court building.
Defence lawyers will call for the ex-IMF chief to be released on bail from the notorious Rikers Island jail where he is awaiting a further hearing, vowing to post US$1 million in bail and turn in his travel documents.
Strauss-Kahn, a French national, is also willing to wear an electronic monitoring device and be confined to a Manhattan apartment 24 hours a day.
In a hearing on Monday, when a judge refused him bail, the defence team said he would stay with his daughter who lives in New York. – AFP.