Ex-IMF chief gets bail in NYC sex-assault case

NEW YORK — Former International Monetary Fund leader Dominique Strauss-Kahn will return to a New York City jail pending his release on bail.

Anne Sinclair, wife of Dominique

Strauss-Kahn, former manager of the International Monetary Fund, arrives

with their daughter Camille Strauss-Kahn for his bail hearing at

Manhattan Criminal Court, Thursday in New York. A prosecutor in New

York says a grand jury has indicted Dominique Strauss-Kahn in connection

with an alleged attack on a hotel maid.

Strauss-Kahn is charged with trying to rape a hotel maid and is likely to spend one more night at Rikers Island jail.

A judge set bail at $1 million Thursday, and approved an elaborate arrangement under which the 62-year-old diplomat and banker would be confined to a private apartment in Manhattan and monitored by armed guards.

Strauss-Kahn will also have to take out a $5 million insurance bond.

Prosecutors have said he should remain behind bars.

Strauss-Kahn resigned his IMF post late Wednesday.