AND HE WASN’T JUST ASKING FOR A CHAKRA-RELEASE: Socialist Head of IMF Accused of Sexual Attack in NYC. “The Port Authority officers were acting on information from the New York Police Department, whose detectives had been investigating a brutal attack of a woman employee at the hotel Sofitel New York, at 45 West 44th Street, in the heart of the city’s theater district. Mr. Strauss-Kahn had been considered a leading contender to run on the Socialist Party’s ticket against President Nicolas Sarkozy.”