Dominique Strauss-Kahn, managing director of the International Monetary Fund, waits to be arraigned on Monday, May 16, 2011, in Manhattan Criminal Court for an alleged attack on a maid at a New York hotel near Times Square on Saturday. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, Pool)
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Dominique Strauss-Kahn, head of the International Monetary Fund, waits to be arraigned Monday in Manhattan Criminal Court on charges of rape, sex abuse and other counts after a maid at a Times Square hotel said she was attacked in his penthouse suite.
Dominique Strauss-Kahn (second from right), managing director of the International Monetary Fund, is led from a New York police station where he was being held on Sunday, May 15, 2011, on charges of sexually assaulting a hotel maid. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle)
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IMF Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn was seen as the strongest potential challenger to French President Nicolas Sarkozy until his arrest Saturday.
** FILE ** Dominique Strauss-Kahn (right), managing director of the International Monetary Fund, arrives for a meeting with Tharman Shanmugaratnam (center), International Monetary and Financial Committee (IMFC) chairman, and John Lipsky (left), IMF first deputy managing director, in Washington on Saturday, April 16, 2011. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)
Former French socialist presidential candidate Segolene Royal answers reporters' questions on the arrest of IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn as she leaves the Europe1 radio station in Paris on Sunday, May 15, 2011. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)
"If you want to have more weight in the IMF, then you need to take more responsibility in the stability of the system," said IMF Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn. (Associated Press)
In September 2009, Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade gave a $200,000 farewell gift to an International Monetary Fund representative, "in recognition to his contribution to Senegal." (Associated Press)
** FILE ** International Monetary Fund Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn speaks during at a press conference at the end of the second day of the G-20 meeting of finance ministers and central bank governors at the World Bank headquarters in Washington on Saturday, April 24, 2010. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)
** FILE ** Dominique Strauss-Kahn, managing director of the International Monetary Fund, is shown with his wife, Anne Sinclair, a well-known television personality in France, in 2006. (AP Photo, File)
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Officials from the International Monetary Fund - who were visiting the Icelandic capital, Reykjavik, on other business - met with government officials about the economic crisis. Iceland, which has not decided whether to seek IMF help, has a long economic reach because of global investments.