Dominique Strauss-Kahn leaves handcuffed from prison in New York for medical tests Second night of detention in New York for the Director of the International Monetary Fund, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, who now appear before a judge. Arrested late on Saturday (Read the report) by the Special Victim Unit following allegations of sexual assault made against him by a Puerto Rican waitress of 32 years who works at the Sofitel in Times Square, Strauss-Kahn has spent more than 30 hours in a cell in Harlem.