Nightly News   |  May 20, 2011

Former IMF head released on bail

Dominque Strauss Kahn, the former head of the International Monetary Fund, was released on bail Friday following charges he sexually assaulted a hotel housekeeper. NBC's David Gregory reports.

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DAVID GREGORY, anchor (Washington, DC): Dominique Strauss-Kahn has left his jail cell tonight on bail, but he had to find another place to stay because the fancy Manhattan apartment building where his wife had rented an apartment would not take him. Instead, Strauss-Kahn , who quit this week as head of the International Monetary Fund , will be under 24-hour home confinement in a building used by the private security company hired to guard him at all times. It was nearly a week ago now that he was arrested on charges that he sexually assaulted a hotel housekeeper. He says he is not guilty.