A smiling Dominique Strauss-Kahn yesterday paid an “emotional,” two-hour farewell visit to his old haunts, the Washington headquarters of the International Monetary Fund — but wasn’t ready for his French homecoming just yet.
“He won’t be leaving for the next couple of days,” said his lawyer, Benjamin Brafman.
Strauss-Kahn, 62, who’s staying in his Georgetown townhouse, needs to put his US affairs in order, Brafman noted.
The frisky banker told his former staff that he wished to “apologize to those who have been hurt” by his sex scandal and for any negative impact on the IMF, an employee said to Agence France-Presse, which described the atmosphere as “very positive.”
About half of the IMF at tended and applauded, leaving its former managing director “emotional,” the employee said.
Strauss-Kahn and wife Anne Sinclair kept mum as they were mobbed by re porters to and from his former offices. After ward, they opened their door to several guests for an apparent dinner party.
Strauss-Kahn re signed in May after being charged with having forced hotel maid Nafissatou Diallo to perform oral sex on him and with attempted rape.
His return visit came five days after Manhattan prosecutors asked a judge to dismiss all charges due to what they described as a pattern of lies Diallo admitted making to officials and the grand jury.