DSK on tape

Surveillance video from New York's Sofitel is aired for the first time on Thursday on French news channel BFM TV. The footage shows former IMF boss Dominique Strauss-Kahn exiting the building -- allegedly on the day that he was accused of sexually assaulting hotel maid Nafissatou Diallo.
Diallo is also seen in the video, meeting with men who are alleged to be hotel staff.
The footage includes an audio recording of what is purported to be a phone conversation between hotel staff and police.
The hotel security footage also shows two men -- one of them allegedly a hotel staff member -- sharing an embrace. This comes on the heels of a New York Review of Books article which said that the men appeared to celebrate as they await the police, suggesting a possible set up. The hotel adamantly denies these allegations.
Strauss-Kahn was arrested in New York on May 14 onboard a plane bound for Europe minutes before take-off and later charged with attempting to rape Diallo.
Prosecutors eventually dropped criminal charges, leaving Strauss-Kahn free to return to his native France.
During a news conference in New York City on Thursday, Diallo's attorney Kenneth Thompson said the video confirms their client was telling the truth.
Diallo's attorney Kenneth Thompson , (English):
"The most important thing for you to keep in mind is that Nafi Diallo had nothing to do with any type of dancing, any type of gestures that suggest that she was not telling the truth. Those employees, you have to speak to them, but it is completely irrelevant to what happened in that room. When you see Nafi Diallo in that video, do you see her dancing? Do you see her celebrating? Or do you see her describing what happened in that room to her supervisor? It is crystal clear. Videos don't lie. Nafi Diallo described that incident to her supervisors on the 28th floor, repeatedly, and then had to come down to the security department and she did the same thing because she is telling the truth. That is the fact,"
The Diallo civil suit is the last standing legal claim against Strauss-Kahn.
In an interview on French television soon after his return home, Strauss-Kahn said the encounter with Diallo was a "moral error" but that it was consensual. He also vowed to stay out of the Socialist Party's 2012 election campaign in France.
Deborah Lutterbeck, Reuters.